https://bit.ly/3oE5r8M I’ve been thinking I was born at the wrong time. Now I’m not so sure. On one hand I was born at exactly the right time, I was 10 when the Beatles broke, I was there for the British Invasion, I saw the whole movie, many of my contemporaries were not, if you were […]

“Rock Me on the Water: 1974 – The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics”: https://amzn.to/3fpmpDt At first I loved this book. Then it depressed me. Ronald Brownstein posits that 1974 was the apotheosis in entertainment and it all emanated from Los Angeles. This is patently untrue. I hate when writers come up […]

“Elon Musk is being brought in to save SNL’s sagging ratings. He could sink the show in other ways. – In the entertainment and business worlds, there is an argument in favor of the unorthodox host — as well as plenty of warnings”: https://wapo.st/3nXWs1Q Trump united us. Elon Musk is crazy, unsocialized like many scientists. He’s […]

This is what happens when money supersedes art. The problem with the film business is it doesn’t realize time has already passed it by, that the paradigm it claims to operate under has expired. This is a business story. Smart business people get ahead of the audience. That’s the wisdom of Spotify…give people what they […]