“The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood”: https://tinyurl.com/39p9w4kz This is a fabulous book. I was not planning to read it. Read the reviews, reserved it at the library, but I’m anti-nonfiction, I find that fiction resonates more, and I’d just finished a couple of music biographies that made me feel like I […]

The light killed Hollywood. And once the mystery was gone, the old entertainment business was history. There are no movie stars anymore. Except for oldsters, like Harrison Ford, who is 80, and Tom Cruise, who is 60. The paradigm shifted, the film is the star, not the actor. Which is why superhero movies can succeed. […]

The theatrical movie business is never going to recover. And we might need population growth to fill all those office buildings. But music? It keeps getting bigger and bigger. The movie business killed itself. This is what happens when you put bean counters in charge. Let’s see… Marketing expenses are so high, let’s make fewer […]

From: Lindsay Berra To: Bob Lefsetz Subject: It Ain’t Over Doc Hi Bob, Lindsay Berra here, Yogi’s granddaughter. A dozen or so friends forwarded me the post you did on Grampa’s documentary today. First, I’m so glad you enjoyed the film, and second, thank you so much for taking the time to write something about […]