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Mountain Queen-The Summits Of Lhakpa Sherpa

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 […]

The Nicky Hopkins Movie

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 […]

Donald Sutherland

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 […]

Hit Man

What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where the biggest movie of the summer is on Netflix? One in which the entire movie business’s model was stolen, or shall we say abdicated, and the industry had no idea it was happening. What did we learn from tech? You gain the eyeballs, […]