1 Don’t watch this if you’re not a fan of Billy Joel. This isn’t quite hagiography, there are negative aspects of Joel that are talked about, however there’s a desire to turn Billy Joel into something he is not, a credible rocker along the lines of Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne, both of whom testify […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]