Archive for the 'The Media' Category


Ballard

Amazon Prime trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nKRJGXgK0Q This is not a good show. And the problem is its star, Maggie Q. She’s a cold character with no charisma, the kind of good-looking person in your office who gets the job done but you don’t want to hang with after hours. One whose affect is almost always downbeat. Is […]

The Joan Didion Diaries

“Notes to John”: https://shorturl.at/PJFLg 1 This is an utterly astounding book that should be read by everybody. I must admit, I am not a huge Joan Didion fan. I loved “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” but found “Play It As It Lays” flat. As for the vaunted books thereafter, I found them dense and mannered and thought […]

Firing Colbert

You NEGOTIATE! Which is how we know that CBS canceled the “Late Show” for political reasons. Let me see now… You take a top producer, a revenue positive show, and you cancel it willy-nilly? Let’s say income is down. Then like the news outlets, you renegotiate the contracts with the talent, you give them the […]

Mitch Ryder-This Week’s Podcast

Good golly, Miss Molly, take a ride with Mitch! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mitch-ryder/id1316200737?i=1000717685918 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/cdb5bde0-d2e2-4203-b7ed-e0db4adc3786/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-mitch-ryder