We had to endure eighteen months of hype for this? My favorite review was in the “Wall Street Journal”: “It’s like a Mariah Carey movie about a Bruce Springsteen album.” On Metacritic it gets a whopping 60. On RottenTomatoes it did better, it got a 61! “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a fluke. That’s what’s great about filmed entertainment, […]

Peter Guralnick has written the definitive Elvis Presley books, “Last Train to Memphis” and “Careless Love.” His latest is about Elvis’s manager, “The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the Partnership that Rocked the World.”  Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-guralnick/id1316200737?i=1000733121871 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/40a99a83-89d4-4894-9e39-c02fb6dac5c1/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-peter-guralnick

Steve Potash is President and CEO of OverDrive, which provides books for libraries via its Libby app and video content via Kanopy and… Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-potash/id1316200737?i=1000732123706 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/7fe00277-a2a2-47a6-990b-6d0de0c76fe3/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-steve-potash

She was not a femme fatale. The first time I saw Diane Keaton was on Broadway, in “Play It Again, Sam.” My mother was a culture vulture, if there was a play worth seeing, she’d go, and for certain productions she insisted we go too, like with “Play It Again, Sam.” Woody Allen was still […]