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Yemi Oyediran-This Week’s Podcast

Yemi Oyediran is the director of the must-watch documentary “King of Them All: The Story of King Records” presently airing on PBS. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yemi-oyediran/id1316200737?i=1000737576785 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/0197154e-0fe1-4421-896b-a1b595ce0db7/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-yemi-oyediran

More Springsteen-Deliver Me From Nowhere

It’s a business. Just because you liked the film, that does not mean it will be a commercial success, which was my point. Funny how all the left wingers who can’t understand how people vote for Trump can’t understand that the masses might not go to see this movie. This is no different from the […]

The Springsteen Flick

We had to endure eighteen months of hype for this? My favorite review was in the “Wall Street Journal”: “It’s like a Mariah Carey movie about a Bruce Springsteen album.” On Metacritic it gets a whopping 60. On RottenTomatoes it did better, it got a 61! “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a fluke. That’s what’s great about filmed entertainment, […]

Diane Keaton

She was not a femme fatale. The first time I saw Diane Keaton was on Broadway, in “Play It Again, Sam.” My mother was a culture vulture, if there was a play worth seeing, she’d go, and for certain productions she insisted we go too, like with “Play It Again, Sam.” Woody Allen was still […]