Business is good, but it’s meaningless. You can look at the concert grosses and be stunned that this many people are paying this much money to go see these acts, but really, it’s about the audience, not the performers. Now in the sixties, venues had seats. Even clubs. Into the seventies too. And then they […]

Los Angeles could be the most hated city in the country. Of course there is Houston, crippled by its lack of zoning, but L.A. is bigger, second only to New York, and it’s in California, which has been successfully vilified by the right wing. So why should anybody live here? As the story goes, L.A. […]

And this is anathema to those locked into the limited product old school paradigm. Let’s see… It’s Saturday night and you want to go to a movie. You check what’s available… People doing this were addicted to the movies, not any movie in particular, and the studios lost their trust, by playing to an ever […]

https://shorturl.at/F1xh8 I don’t want the Ellisons and Bari Weiss in charge of CNN, I don’t want Zaslav to get three-quarters of a billion in payment, but that does not mean this merger should be stopped. Funny how those in Hollywood are freaking out over this merger, I didn’t hear them go ballistic when Disney purchased […]