The movies lost touch with the populace two decades or so ago. One can point to “‘The Sopranos” as the true beginning of the end. This series was better than any film in the theatre, and in addition it had many episodes a season and had many seasons. This is what fans are truly looking […]

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 […]