This year’s Sundance Film Festival officially began for me in the Salt Lake City airport as paparazzi chased a man that weaved in and out of snowboard bags, dodging cameras and seeking any available exit. I watched locals shake their heads and ask each other who he was. No one recognized him. Maybe we had just witnessed a scene being shot from the making of an indie film?
Those in the “VIP know” with deep pockets were able to helicopter from the airport into a neighboring Park City field for the first few days, until the trips were quashed due to a reported local bison herd disturbance. The rest of us bundled up, and with too much luggage, stepped outside to grab shuttles or cabs for the 30- minute ride into the mountains. But this year, those were not the only options- Uber has changed the climate. No more waiting for a cab that may never come in the freezing weather while sipping smuggled Fireball. My local Salt Lake driver was there within minutes. He told me all about the addition of a new, heated, waiting tent in Park City for Sundance, complete with complimentary Wi-Fi, cell phone chargers, lip balm, mints and red bull. Outside, the 30-car Uber port was manned by helpful staff, efficiently sending festival goers off in every direction. I even had a fun ride in a monster truck to a film- not an every day occurrence in Los Angeles.
Once flights and lodging are buttoned up, nearly everything is free during Sundance, whether you are on lists for the “in” parties or not. Swag and opportunities to register for free trips abound at the various pop-up lounges up and down the old, sloped, mining town’s Main Street. Locals work double shifts, clearing huge money in this ten-day celebration while Sundance volunteers in puffy logo jackets are happy to be in attendance and of assistance.
If you plan on coming to Robert Redford’s festival next year and are interested in seeing any movies at all, buy your tickets online well in advance as most were sold out by the first day of the festival. The climate has changed rapidly with the new Sundance app that introduced e-waitlists and eliminated the need to carry around bulky film guides. Festival goers are now able to peruse the daily electronic list of films as they set alarms on their phones for exactly two hours before their desired screening. It feels a bit like trying to get concert tickets to Janet Jackson in the middle of a networking party as people interrupt conversations to bid for a newly released, available seat. Newbies beware- some films take place in downtown Salt Lake City and require a lengthy and somewhat costly trip out of the mountains and into the valley.
Gone are the days of post carding your indie film that doesn’t have celebs or a studio behind it- only one board with new, daily layers of posters stapled on was spotted. A festival lounge worker told me flyers, posters and business cards would be tossed if left behind. Missing are some of the smaller festivals that used to allow for filmmakers to have their shorts and features screened even if they were not one of the few chosen for Sundance or Slamdance. My suggestion for next year? A party for all of those filmmakers who submitted but weren’t accepted.
Late night parties cropped up in private ski-in/ski-out condos, replacing the Deer Valley mega-lodge parties of yesteryear that flipped their themes daily. Electronic lists on tablets were at every high-end, networking party door like the Weinsteins, A&E, Erica Badu and Sting’s playing venues. (This makes the hiring of a pre-festival publicist a recommended added expense to seriously consider.) Despite the mega stars providing intimate concerts for a very select few, by far the best music came from Talia Keys’ live band gigging at The Spur. The androgynous lead singer rocked her guitar and belted out original and funky/bluesy cover tunes in a manner reminiscent of Janis Joplin.
Mac Africa’s Soirée was the most generous, offering air brushed face painting, sushi, drinks and desert, as well as glittery swag bags for all, loaded with beauty products. Gordon Vasquez from RealTV Films (realtvfilms.com) covered the event with red carpet interviews. The hottest nightclub in the first weekend of the festival was Tao. It was created in a converted parking lot complete with free booze all night, a red carpet, velvet curtained walls, two space-aged, go-go dancers with gold lame ribs, as well as a bass-heavy, hip-hop DJ lineup that packed the dance floor until close. Even Kendra from the “Girls Next Door” fame was spotted cutting loose after filming all day, graciously taking photos with fans.
Of course paying a bit more for an actual local cabbie like “Double D” is an insider’s tip as they are the ones in-the-know about the current hot spot locations hidden and going off at that moment. Unfortunately the much anticipated CAA party Saturday night had to be cancelled due to the blizzard in New York that prevented too many players from flying in.
VR Bars- virtual reality bars were all the rage this year. Warm, dark lounges found people in line watching others turn in circles with various large viewing goggles strapped to their heads. The Sundance Store even sold cardboard boxes that extend to become smart phone projectors- who knew?
Most decent restaurants serving anything but pizza were charging $85.00/person for a 3-course meal. That was IF you had a reservation. (Swag lounges with free power bars came in handy in those moments!) First-timer ladies who didn’t check the weather slid on the icy, slanted sidewalks in three inch, open-toed heels, bare-legged and clinging to each other, insisting that not having shaved their legs was keeping them warm.
Beware; it’s hard on your body to drink alcohol (even the reduced content kind sold in Utah) in the increased altitude. Ibuprofen for body aches, naproxen for headaches and electrolyte water are necessities. Best drinks on the menu? Gatorade and vodka or if your throat starts to tickle, a “Hottie Toddie” to ward off any creeping ailment. Don’t forget your vitamins, or the $18.00 warm-air vaporizer at the local drug store that will be your best bedfellow. Despite your efforts, don’t be surprised if the “high-altitude hack” inevitably creeps up however. Laughing becomes a phlegm affair and polite company ignores the occasional gritty cough into the inside of a turtleneck.
Vail’s purchase and installation of a new gondola linking the old Canyons and Park City snow resorts has made it the largest ski resort in America. But during the Sundance Film Festival, the slopes are nearly empty, allowing for those in-the-know to enjoy short lift lines and the occasional celeb/mega-producer sighting at Stein Erickson’s Lodge during Après ski at Deer Valley.
As always, the networking did not disappoint. Filmmakers from across the country were in attendance to connect and promote their project’s various needs. Mitch Levine, President of The Film Festival Group in Los Angeles, helps filmmakers plan festival market acquisition and festival strategies. A filmmaker himself for the dance documentary Morphinggravity.com, he was also seeking funding for a feature length version, much as I was for my short film Eternal Waltz (EternalWaltzFilm.com). Producer/actors like Vincent De Paul were in the mix promoting the success of his feature “Beverly Hills Christmas” starring Dean Cain and Donna Spangler, which screened daily before the holidays on UP TV and has a sequel in progress. Simply trusting in the travel zen of being open to making connections and seeing where it leads you is a great tip for navigating the masses of events and individuals.
If you return to your respective local without having passed out the majority of the business cards you brought with you, then you have missed out on one of the most condensed and diverse networking opportunities in the film community. Don’t let Tuesday’s lull as the first wave of Sundancers leave and the second is about to arrive fool you… the festival continues to thrive with award banquets, lounges and screenings until the last day of the festival. The challenge then becomes to follow up with all the contacts you have made… that is once you have unpacked, cleaned up that pesky hack and re-adjusted back to your own altitude. Sooner than you think January will roll around and you’ll be packing that extra layer of long johns to traverse the upward slope of Main Street.
There are family secrets we inherit, family stories we repeat and family wounds we spend a lifetime trying to understand. In Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness, playwright Sharon Scott Williams turns her own family history into a theatrical examination of what happens when a child grows up loving someone she cannot save.
Rubicon Theatre Company will bring the Off-Broadway premiere of Williams’ autobiographical play to 59E59 Theaters this fall, with Linda Purl taking on an extraordinary 16 characters under the direction of Anson Williams. Will Huse joins her as The Blues Man.
For television audiences, the director Anson Williams remains instantly associated with Warren “Potsie” Weber on the iconic series Happy Days, but his career behind the camera has been extensive, directing hundreds of hours of television. There is also a delightful bit of Happy Days symmetry in his collaboration with Purl: she played Ashley Pfister, Fonzie’s girlfriend, during the series’ tenth season. Decades later, the two are reunited on considerably darker territory, with Williams directing Purl through a story in which comedy and heartbreak live uncomfortably close together.
The story begins just days after Sharon’s eighth birthday. Racing home from school to beat her teenage brother, Spikey, to the final piece of birthday cake, she walks into the kitchen and finds her mother holding a knife. The sheriff takes her mother away, and a deputy gives the little girl an explanation both brutally simple and wholly inadequate: her mama is “not right in the head.”
What follows is not simply a story about mental illness. It is the story of a daughter who spends decades believing that if she loves fiercely enough, tries hard enough or somehow finds the right answer, she can rescue her mother.
That distinction gives Crazy Mama its emotional center. Mental illness affects the person living with it, but its reach rarely stops there. It changes marriages, childhoods, siblings and entire families. Williams writes from the perspective of someone who knew both the love and the fear inside that experience.
“Mental illness affects one in four people, but all-too-often individuals and families don’t speak of their experience and hide their pain,” Williams says. “I was lucky. I had my family to help me through it, but there were times we were afraid to talk about it. Crazy Mama is a story that helps lift that stigma.”
Rather than treating its subject with unrelenting solemnity, the play is laced with humor as well as pathos. That matters. Families living through extraordinary circumstances still laugh, fight over birthday cake, irritate one another and get through Tuesday. Resilience isn’t always heroic. Sometimes it is simply continuing to love someone when love cannot fix what is wrong.
For Purl, whose career has moved easily between stage, film and television, Crazy Mama presents a formidable theatrical challenge. Sixteen characters pass through a single performer, requiring not merely vocal or physical transformation but the creation of an entire family and world around one woman’s memory.
The production arrives in New York following its world premiere at Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, California, in March 2025. Rubicon Producing Artistic Directors Karyl Lynn Burns and Jonathan Drahos now bring the work east for its Off-Broadway debut.
The creative team includes Brian Gale, who provides lighting and projection design, and Lindsay Jones on sound design. Alexandrea Hess Rodriguez serves as production stage manager, with Stephanie Coltrin as associate producer.
At its heart, Crazy Mama asks a difficult question: What happens when the person you desperately want to save is someone you do not have the power to save?
Williams lived that question. Now Linda Purl will become the 16 people who helped her tell the story.
Performances begin September 16, with opening night set for September 22. The limited engagement runs through October 18 in Theater C.
Crazy Mama runs two hours and five minutes, including intermission, with performances Tuesday through Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $42, including the $2 fee, through 59E59 Theaters, by phone at 646-892-7999, or at the box office at 59 East 59th Street.
G.H. Harding
A KIMMEL COLD? — Jimmy Kimmel came back from his summer vacation Tuesday night to rumors that ABC/Disney was canceling his show. Could it be Trump? That FCC guy Brendan Carr? Believe me, the crazy is definitely out there!
By morning’s light, it was flagged as just a bad, bad rumor. I mean, could Trump have won?
Kimmel, coming back from a two-month summer vacation, could definitely could have used the added juice, but Kimmel didn’t address it at all. Rather, he cited all the things that had gone wrong when he left when … and that they are pretty much still in play. In other words, he essentially stayed the same too!
Johnny Carson
When Kimmel was silenced the first time, I knew it was a bad thing, but that said, he does seem to go a tad overboard. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I miss Carson; Cavett; and Letterman and, yes, even Merv! As these four were really masters of their craft and try as the new kids on the block might, it’s nowhere the same and ultimately a bit embarrassing.
SHORT TAKES — Believe me, nothing makes pundits like myself happier, than skewering the major corporations like Netflix; Fox; Disney; or Universal. Usually it’s just good clean fun, but who doesn’t like to poke the bear? Roger Friedman’s item on the new Netflix Brad Pitt movie in his brilliant Showbiz 411, had me in stiches. Take a read: https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/09/08/brad-pitts-big-further-mi …
Henry Diltz; Alison Martino and Micky Dolenz
Hollywood’s own Alison Martino introduces Micky Dolenz tonight at his “official”60th Monkees Anniversary Show at The Downtown United Theater. Henry Diltz who just turned 88 will be there too … (Via Deadline)
Michael Kelly
When the Paramount+ series Landman returns with its third season, it will feature the show’s newest series regular, Michael Kelly (Lioness, The Penguin). He will portray William Crockett, the leader of the largest oil management firm in the world. He is a titan of industry, and everything about him exudes efficiency and money. Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. Based on the 11-part podcast “Boomtown,” the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy, and our geopolitics. Kelly was also sensational in Netflix’s House of Cards … Stephen Spielberg’s Disclosure Day hits Peacock, on June. I loved it … (Via Forgotten Hits)
Tom Jones
Tom Jones is saying that he was fired from the U.K. version of “The Voice” after nine seasons. What on earth are they thinking? Jones was the ONLY reason to watch the show, often coming up to sing with some of the contestants or on his own … truly a joy to watch as his voice hasn’t lost any of its magic over the years. The general consensus seems to be that their feeling was Tom was getting “too old” … at one point, a comment was even made that he was uninsurable. I say, buy the program right out from under ‘em, Tom … and sack the whole lot. Then, go out and hire Lulu, Barry Gibb and Donovan Leitch to be your co-coaches / judges / and mentors and watch the program soar … prove to the entertainment world once and for all that there is no substitute for talent (both having it and recognizing it), knowledge and wisdom … just imagine what this panel could do to inspire tomorrow’s wannabes!) Sir Tom is that rare exception to the rule of an 86-year-old who can still belt them out with the best of them. He certainly deserves better than this. Amen Kent! … Happy Bday Vinny Rich; Joyce Moore; and Will Lee.
9/11 — I live right over the Brooklyn Bridge and right before 9/11 happened, I was actually summoned to a meeting a few blocks from the World Trade Center. When the attacked happened, I clearly didn’t go, but picked up my daughter up from school safely. As I entered the school, which was in a state of shock, I saw kids distraught everywhere and I girl I knew came up to and asked why it was snowing. I had never experienced anything like this.
In fact, no one had.
I ambled up to my roof and watched for a mere second what was evolving and turned away. It was a day that changed everything.
That night, I walked around and everything was covered in soot. It was something out of a horror movie. I could only bear it for seconds.
COVID was the next step. There were similarities, but somehow, I knew it would be resolved.
I heard that 1/3 of all people are now told the 9/11 story as they weren’t alive then.
I can’t quite believe it’s been 25 years; as sometimes it feels like yesterday. I try not to think about it, but how can you not. The reasons why are still murky and I guess they aways will be, but should something like that even deserved to have happened?
NAMES IN THE NEWS —Donnie Kehr; Cori Gardner; Randy Alexander; Markos Papadatos; Anthony Pomes; Ty Biggs; Steve Walter; Eppy; Jim Morrison; Fred Greenburg; Thomas Jay; Sharon White; Jim Burgess; Vito Bruno; Alison Martini; Joel Diamond; Bhaskar Menon; Joe Smith; Bob Feiden; Monica Lynch; Melissa Davis; and ZIGGY!
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EARTH, WIND & FIRE DOC — With some downtime this weekend, I dialed up the HBO/MAX doc on Earth, Wind & fire called Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That’s the Weight of the World), and it was actually one of the best I’ve yet seen. To be honest, it focused almost solely on the mastermind of the group Maurice White.
Maurice White
To me, fashioning a group, budling an image and achieving some degree of success is a monumental task. I’ve personally seen too many bands or artists completely miss it. But what White was able to accomplish is astonishing.
I first became aware the band through some amazing albums and of course, their song “September” sealed the deal.
White passed in 2016, so the footage of him is all archival and the current interviews with producers., relatives and band members tale on an. But the remembrances of everyone from Stevie Wonder, to manager Bob Cavallo, Flea, and the Obamas is marvelous. Its of the same caliber as HBO’s Billy Joel doc from last year.
Produced by Questlove, it’s definitely on my year end list.
DOLENZ ON CARTER — Micky Dolenz was interviewed on KLOS/Breakfast with The Beatles Sunday with Chris Carter, and it was a good one, as Carter discussed Dolenz’s just-released EP Timeless, featuring the singles “Terri” and “Any Way You Want Me To.” Carter also played Dolenz’s recordings of “Good Morning Good Morning” and “Blackbird” which remain standouts.
Carter said that his “Good Morning Good Morning” was one of the most requested non-Beatle songs on his show for years. btw: That track is from Dolenz’s stunningly good Remember album in 2012.
With the official 60th anniversary show this Saturday at The United Theater Downtown. Congrats also to Carter for his 25th anniversary of his show. Brilliant!
SHORT TAKES — When Apple’s Silo first stated, I watched the first episode and just couldn’t get into it. I’ve gone back and become a die-hard fan. It’s a bit hard to follow at time, but their Season 3 finale was last week and a rip-roaring affair it was. There was also a trailer for their next and final season (already filmed) which was phenomenal. It’s become one of Apple’s golden eggs. Rebecca Ferguson is sensational … RIP Jon Small from Billy Joel-fame. Check out this from People: https://people.com/billy-joel-mourns-jon-small-death-longtime-collaborator-friend-12110501 … When Carnival Dogs played My Father’s Place this past weekend, proprietor Eppy said “I think Jim Morrison is suddenly in the room” …
Oasis has always been a mixed bag for me. I love their music – ‘Wonderworld” is a stone cold classic, but the rivalry between the two brothers, Liam and Noel casts a real, down note for me. Their new doc Don’t Look back In Anger should prove interetsing. Check out this review, which amazingly says the doc ends not with an Oasis song, but with a version of the Hal David/Burt Bacharach song “What The World Needs Now Is Love. ” https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scottish-mail-on-sunday/20260906/281728391395114 … Happy Bday Nancy Jeffries and Henry Diltz!
NAMES IN THE NEWS — Jane Blunkell; Chris Carter; Johns Hughes; Terri Layne; Tom & Lisa Cuddy; Rodney Bingenheimer; Thomas Silverman; Steve Singer; John Hughes; Jodi Ritzen; Jacqueline Boyd; Alison Martino; Debra Moreno; Andy Skurow; Steve Walter; Susan Hathaway; Chuck Pulin; Chris Ortiz; Freddie Bastone; Mark Bego; and ZIGGY!
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There are certain conversations that simply belong in New York, and putting Gustavo Dudamel and Lin-Manuel Miranda together beneath the stars in Central Park feels like one of them.
On September 23, The Public Theater will bring back its Public Forum Duets with Public Forum Duet: Gustavo Dudamel & Lin-Manuel Miranda, a free, one-night-only event at the revitalized Delacorte Theater. The evening will combine conversation with live musical performances as two very different musical forces talk about music, life and, most intriguingly, what both mean in New York City.
Dudamel arrives at a fascinating moment in his relationship with the city. The celebrated conductor is the incoming Tang Music & Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, bringing with him not simply an international reputation but a deeply held belief in music as something that should reach beyond the traditional walls of the concert hall.
Miranda hardly requires an introduction to a New York theater audience. The creator of Hamilton has become one of the city’s most recognizable artistic voices, but his connection to The Public makes this particular pairing especially appropriate. Hamilton began its New York life at The Public before moving to Broadway, making The Delacorte an unusually fitting place for Miranda to join a musician beginning his own major new chapter in the city.
What makes the evening particularly appealing, however, is the word duet.
The Public Forum series has long been built around the idea that conversation itself can be a form of performance. The Public describes the program as a place where “art, ideas, and action collide,” bringing artists, thinkers and public voices together to examine the larger questions moving through the culture.
Dudamel and Miranda should have plenty to discuss.
One comes from the world of orchestras, where hundreds of years of musical tradition meet the challenge of attracting the audiences of tomorrow. The other helped take American history, hip-hop, musical theater and immigration and turn them into one of the defining theatrical phenomena of the 21st century. Both have spent much of their careers challenging assumptions about who certain kinds of music belong to and who should be invited into the room.
New York has always been a city that absorbs musical languages and makes something new from them. Classical music, Broadway, jazz, salsa, hip-hop, opera and countless sounds carried here by generations of immigrants coexist within a few subway stops of one another. Yet arts institutions everywhere are confronting the same question: How do you honor tradition without allowing tradition to become a gatekeeper?
Dudamel and Miranda have approached that question from very different directions. Bringing them together isn’t simply an appealing celebrity pairing. It offers the possibility of a conversation about where music goes next—and who gets to come along.
Best of all, the evening remains rooted in one of The Public’s defining principles: access.
Free tickets will be distributed on September 23 in several ways. Distribution outside The Delacorte begins at noon; an in-person lottery will be held at noon in The Public Theater lobby at 425 Lafayette Street; the TodayTix digital lottery remains open until noon that day; and a standby line at The Delacorte can begin distributing available tickets as early as 6 p.m. Public Theater members can also reserve seats with an additional donation.
Public Forum Duet: Gustavo Dudamel & Lin-Manuel Miranda — tickets and information
There is something wonderfully old-fashioned about the whole proposition: gather New Yorkers in Central Park, put two extraordinary musical minds onstage, add live music and see where the conversation goes.
In a city increasingly divided into algorithms, audiences and carefully targeted demographics, perhaps there is still something radical about simply gathering together to listen.
On September 23, New York gets one hell of a duet.
G.H. Harding
HONEY MONEY NO MORE? — News that Maria Bartiromo was fired from Fox reverberated around the world and generated a literal ton of ink.
Bryan Freedman
With high-powered pit-bull lawyer Bryan Freedman (fresh from the Blake Lively/Just Baldoni mess) on the case, who knows what will happen.
She first gained notoriety as ‘Money Honey’ and has been a star for years.
(Via Showbiz 411) Maria Bartiromo’s new Hollywood lawyer has something to say. Bryan Freedman says Maria was not fired by Fox News, that she’s still an employee, and all reports to the contrary are false.
You can see his statement below.
Freedman also says there’s no truth to the reports that Bartiromo was acting as a double agent, feeding Donald Trump and Fox News with info about each other. Believe me, I know that when Fox News breaks up with you, it isn’t pretty. It’s not their style. In the end, they will have to pay out her contract. But for now, lots of posturing on both sides.
For many years, Maria Bartiromo hosted three number one rated television shows on Fox channels. She has been, without question, one of the hardest working journalists throughout her award-winning career.
The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false. Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise. Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth.
Bryan Freedman, Attorney for Maria Bartiromo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Derrek Kupish/Shutterstock (14186545bu)
Patti Labelle
2023 CMT Smashing Glass – Tributes to Tanya Tucker and Patti LaBelle, Arrivals, Nashville, Tennessee, USA – 15 Nov 2023
PATTI LABELLE — Common, Patti LaBelle and Public Enemy are the artists who will be honored at the 2026 Black Music Action Coalition Gala, presented by Live Nation, taking place on September 24, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. She of course, front LaBelle with the late Nona Hendryx, but has remained a marquee-name for sure. So well deserved!
SHORT TAKES — (Via Billboard.com) Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70. Dubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country and beyond. At the heart of all her work was her idiosyncratic contralto, a soulful sound distinctly tied to her roots … (Via Deadline) As Simon Cowell continues to recover from back surgery, another America’s Got Talent alum is returning to the judge’s table. On Wednesday’s episode of the NBC reality competition series, it was announced that Heidi Klum will fill in for Cowell next week during a special three-hour broadcast of the Season 21 quarterfinals. Klum served as a judge on America’s Got Talent from 2013 to 2018, before returning from 2020 to 2024. She exited the AGT judge’s table last year, shortly after she was invited back to host Project Runway for Freeform and Disney+ …
Mr T
On Friday’s Today Show, Al Roker caught with the infamous Mr. T from The A-Team. Who says you can’t get a doc made? Mr. T’s one is out now on Netflix … Much ink this week about Miley Cyrus changing her name to just Miley; and a new album appears with the single “Bass Persuades.” The song is typical high-energy Miley, but the video looks like a combo of the best parts of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video and Debbie Gibson’s “Electric Youth” video. Funny! …
Micky Dolenz on KTLA
Here’s Micky Dolenz at LA’s KTLA being interviewed in advance of his show at The United Theater Downtown in LA next Saturday, February 12; and his new EP Timeless, featuring the singles “Terri” and “Any Way You Want Me To.” February 12 is the official date of the Emmy-award winning TV-show The Monkees debuting on NBC. L-R-Standing-Jasmine Simpkins and Dolenz -sitting- Samantha Cortese and John Fenoglio … Anthony Pomes and his Doors-tribute band Carnival Dogs played My Father’s Place Friday night.
Eppy and Anthony Pomes aka “Inner Jim”
Here’s Inner Jim with Eppy … (via Deadline) Prime Video has opted not to proceed with a second season of the superhero series Spider-Noir starring Nicola Cage. Spider-Noir was the second series ordered and first to make it to the screen under a multi-title deal between Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television based on IP from Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters. Too bad as I loved it and Cage was just superb as usual … Happy Bday Sharon White
NAMES IN THE NEWS —– Anna Chan; Joe Lynch; Gary Graff; Paul Grein; Adam White; Anthony Pomes; Pierce Brosnan; Kevin Spacey; Kimberly Cornell; Amanda Naylor; Tom & Lisa Cuddy; Gary Graff; John Hughes; Dan Mapp; Paul Pierce; Judy Kaufman; Marjorie Schwartz; Lora Evans; Ben Kenney; Angela Tarantino; Lee Jeske; Randy Alexander; Peter Shendell; Romeo Escobar; Oleg Cassini; and CHIP!
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