Netflix trailer (but I’d recommend not to watch it, so the plot is fresh): https://t.ly/muWoY And here’s your weekend entertainment. At least two hours and eleven minutes of it anyway. This is a seventies movie. The kind we used to pay to see on a Saturday night, or maybe a hot Tuesday evening, when we […]

Netflix trailer: https://tinyurl.com/mr86e6rk I was into Everest before it was big. That’s what we used to say about rock acts in the sixties and seventies, like Yes, whose first album my dentist turned me on to and didn’t break through until two LPs later, really three, with “Fragile.” That used to be the process. You […]

thesessionmanfilm.com ——— Does anybody under forty even know who Nicky Hopkins is/was? But for those who do… When was the last time you saw Shel Talmy on film? And the man with the most gravitas is…Bill Wyman? Oh, Mick and Keith are here too, and they wax rhapsodic, but they were all there… Actually, it […]

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 […]