Screw the reviews. You know if you have to see this. And if you do… There’s a starmaking machinery behind the popular song. Image is important. You’re never truly let inside. Unless you are. Those Rick Rubin interviews were fantastic, but Paul was playing a role, a Beatle. But who is this guy really? I […]

I thought he was a different guy. What do I know about Billy Preston? He showed up in the studio and played with the Beatles and he had a few hits in the early seventies sporting a giant afro. He was always smiling, I thought he was a happy-go-lucky guy. Turns out that was not […]

I first saw Harold and Maude as a college freshman at UCSB, and then two years later as a film student at UCLA. Colin Higgins, the film’s writer and a UCLA graduate, spoke after the screening about how the film got made. He said the film would never have worked if Hal Ashby hadn’t found […]

I found out he died in the “CT Insider,” which Apple News+ suggested to me probably because my sister Wendy sent me so many articles from the publication. And I wondered whether I was getting the full flavor of the Nutmeg State news when I noticed in the upper left-hand corner a button entitled “Sections,” […]