It’s tougher to stay alive. Anyone can die, retire, the challenge is to keep on keepin’ on, with no compass, no rule book, knowing that everything you do thereafter could tarnish your legacy, kill your career. John Lennon, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain were great artists, but if they were alive today, we’d see them […]

Just got home from the movie theatre where we saw "Transcendent Man Live With Ray Kurzweil". Transcendent Man Live With Ray Kurzweil Huh? Maybe you know the Kurzweil piano. Or the Segway, Dean Kamen, its inventor ,was there too. As well as Steve Wozniak, computer programmer extraordinaire. They were all in NYC beaming to 49 […]

That’s Blake Edwards.  Who died at the end of last year but didn’t have a public funeral.  Last night’s celebration at the Directors Guild was his official send-off. Funny how you know these people but you don’t.  Like Blake’s wife Julie Andrews.  You’re standing there talking to her and you know her but she doesn’t […]

It was a namedropper’s paradise. That’s what George or Barbara Bush said at the end of the movie, I can’t remember which, I’m gonna have to see it again! You see Jerry arranged this affair for the President… And I had no idea last night’s affair would be such a Hollywood clusterfuck.  Really.  I went […]