Archive for 2024/06


Queen For A Billion

I don’t really care. I’m burned out on these gigantic catalog sales. But maybe this is important, maybe this isn’t just a banking deal, maybe Sony has insight that is not being acknowledged. Bear with me here. The bottom line is we are not minting new superstars. So the value of old superstars goes up! […]

Shows You Plan To Go To-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday June 22nd to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 Twitter: @lefsetz If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Willie Mays

You could say it’s the end of an era, but in truth that era died on January 12, 1969, when the New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Joe Namath predicted it, and when it came true not only was he a hero in New York, but throughout the country.  We […]

Donald Sutherland

I was having dinner with John Brodey at Ago and he told me his Australian film director buddy Fred Schepisi might be stopping by. It used to be Bono’s. Sonny’s place. Before that I can’t remember. But it was always Italian. And right there at the intersection of Melrose and La Cienega. The last time […]