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, […]

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 […]

As of this writing, “Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery,” is unrated on both RottenTomatoes and Metacritic, there’s just not enough data. So the question arises, has anybody seen it? Oh, the documentary has gotten reviews. Then again, even Sarah McLachlan herself pulled out of performing at the premiere in protest against ABC/Disney’s suspension of Jimmy […]

“King of Them All – The Story of King Records”: https://www.pbs.org/show/king-of-them-all-the-story-of-king-records/ I could watch this sh*t all day long. I love to learn, and I learned a lot watching this documentary. From the very first time I met him, in a crowd at the Troubadour, Seymour Stein talked about Syd Nathan. And seemingly every time […]