Trailer: https://bit.ly/3qWix49 We had to finish this before we dug into “Ozark.” I almost wrote about “Ozark” last night, we’re not quite two episodes in, so please don’t e-mail me about stuff and ruin it, but what got me so excited, what made me want to communicate with you, was how they got the family […]

I opened a few shows for Meat Loaf in 1977 or 78 (wish I had kept better archives) when “Bat Out of Hell” was breaking and most impressive to me was that both Mr. Loaf (as they NY Times called him) and the brilliant Jim Steinman were both warm and welcoming and even seemed to […]

Dead is dead. Two days ago, nobody was talking about Meat Loaf. Two days from now they won’t be either, unless it’s to say he was an anti-vaxxer. “Bat Out of Hell” was successful for one reason and one reason only, Steve Popovich. Pop was a legendary promo man at CBS Records who left to […]

You’ve got to break the rules to win. Tomorrow in Aspen Jim Lewi is taking the exam to become a certified ski instructor. He’s been shooting me videos of the Aspen ski school director, Jonathan Ballou, whom I’ve never heard of. This guy can demonstrate the exercises, he can conform, but his skiing has no […]