Today the “New York Times” said that the Luminate/”Billboard” chart was manipulated: “Swift made ‘Tortured Poets’ available in four variants across physical formats, each with an extra track; these were also sold in special editions from Swift’s website with autographs and collectibles like magnets and engraved bookmarks. Eilish, who has complained about artists’ excessive marketing […]

Bill Maher can’t play arenas. I’m not sure if you’re listening to Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast. Unfortunately Bill too often makes it about himself, when we’re mostly interested in what the guests have to say, but there are some good episodes. Like the recent one with Jerry Seinfeld. Who was aloof yet analytical, he […]

https://t.ly/rHlWw This is not a book for those still at their first rodeo. But if you’re a boomer, or a Gen-X’er, and you can’t relate… Then you probably are not in touch with your inner life. Life doesn’t work out the way you expect it to. Even if you try and jump through the ordained […]

It’s now on Amazon Prime. But it’s the kind of movie we used to go to the theatre for, when film was still the national religion, when cinema engendered analysis, conversation, before everything became two-dimensional, in-your-face entertainment made to be consumed with popcorn and then forgotten. Movies had to play around the world, they had […]