Talk about paying your dues… John Oliver was a second, maybe a third banana on the “Daily Show” until he replaced Jon Stewart when the host was on a hiatus and ended up with his own half hour program on HBO on Sunday night. This is contrary to the music business, where youth rules and […]

Could it be that no one wants to hear what actors have to say, which generally speaking is nothing? We’re at the threshold of the death of baby boomer constructs, and art too. The belief was that when classic rockers passed, concert attendance would crumble, but live events are burgeoning, there are more stadium acts […]

How could this show be this bad? Are Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger really this out of touch? As for Terence Winter, he was involved with the “Sopranos,” I guess that proves that David Chase was the genius there. I lived through 1973. Although there were no cell phones, there was plenty of boredom, the […]

Taylor Swift was insufferable, LL Cool J was jive, the Weeknd soared and the Eagles sounded like angels ferrying Glenn Frey to heaven. But what struck me most was the changing of the guard. The baby boomers, the rockers, they’re in the rearview mirror, it’s a pop world run by young people and if you’re […]