EARTH, WIND & FIRE DOC — With some downtime this weekend, I dialed up the HBO/MAX doc on Earth, Wind & fire called Earth, Wind &...
How fitting it is that Micky Dolenz has chosen this month to release his latest recorded album, Timeless. It hits the marketplace just in time to...
HONEY MONEY NO MORE? — News that Maria Bartiromo was fired from Fox reverberated around the world and generated a literal ton of ink. With high-powered...
STERN ROLLS THE DICE … AGAIN — (Via Barrett Media) What They Said: “As the ‘King of All Media,’ I am honored to bring my SiriusXM show to...
DOLLY LOVE — (Via Forgotten Hits) The day of Dolly Parton’s death, her music was streamed 26.3 million times … incredible … more than any other...
A WORLD WITHOUT DOLLY? — Pundit-Roger Friedman may have summed it up the best by saying: It’s hard to imagine but country superstar Dolly Parton has died. The great...
LUCKY ENDING — Here’s the logline: Lucky is an American crime thriller television miniseries created by Jonathan Tropper for Apple TV. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening,...
LANTERNS — When Lanterns was announced for HBO/MAX with Damon Lindelof attached, I knew there’d be some sweeping changes … and there were. Lindelof did Lost; Watchmen and The Leftovers; all of which...
VALLI COME, VALLI GO? — The big media news in the last few days has been whether Frankie Valli has officially retired. The 92-year-old singer canceled...
LIONESS — Taylor Sheridan’s epic series Lioness, has taken a fierce new turn for its third season as Zoe Saldana’s character Joe has been outed and captured initiating a fierce plan...
He may have been the master of space and time, but singer/songwriter Leon Russell, who once owned The Church recording studio in Tulsa, never would have...
“We knew within fifteen minutes that we were meant to play together.” If you wanted to boil down to one word the essence of New...
MADONNA’S CONFESSIONS — So, was Madonna Confessions On The Dance Floor, Vol 2 a hit … or, miss? After a purported 72% drop in sales and...
FINKE LIVES? — She stopped writing her Deadline Hollywood column years ago, after Jay Penske, bought it, but she was indeed one of the pillars of...
TAYLOR’S LION SEASON 3 — I loved Yellowstone. I was a big Kevin Costner fan from the film No Way Out way back in 1987 with...
NOLAN’S MAGNUM OPUS — I saw Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this weekend and was completely overwhelmed by it. Its magnificent. I usually prefer not to read...
TAUPIN SPEAKS — Bernie Taupin, the longtime songwriting partner of Elton John, is releasing a new solo album this fall, his first solo effort in 39...
RIDLEY’S REPLICANTS — When Blade Runner first came out in 1982, I instantly loved it. The visuals, the narrative (based on Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids...
AVENGERS REDEUX — By now you know that Marvel released their first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday this Tuesday. It amazingly amassed over a million hits in just 4 hours, but...
BOOK SOUP INTERRUPTED — Anyone who is a book lover in LA knows Book Soup shop on Sunset Blvd. It’s a small shop, but weekly dialogues...
BOOM BOOM GONE — The tributes to Freddy Cannon, who passed last Friday, are just terrific and plentiful. Cousin Bruce Morrow, who knew him well and...
New York — Singer-songwriter and guitarist, Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, who holds the record for the most appearances on Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand (110 times), died...
A STERN SHOT — He may have signed a new deal last December, but Howard Stern is cutting back his SiriusXM show to just one live...
SAM NEILL — Sam Neill was just a stupendous actor. He may not have been in the starring role, like in The Hunt For Red October; Event...
STONES RULE — After a brief get-a-way, we’ve been listening to the new Rolling Stones record, Foreign Tongues, are have just been dazzled. Its definitely one of their...
