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Fred Schruers

Fred Schruers

The Billy Joel Papers: All I Want is Someone to Believe

The Billy Joel Papers: All I Want is Someone to Believe

In this current recasting of career and personal Billy Joel highlights occasioned by the deserved popularity of the “And So It Goes” doc on HBO, I’m bringing some dramatis personae forward here on the blog. Along with excerpts from the biography I wrote with cooperation from Billy, I'

Dinner with Bobby and Cheryl

Dinner with Bobby and Cheryl

The missus and I have long been followers of the Kennedy clan and of its most famous current specimen, Bobby Kennedy Jr. In recent months we were glad to see him move into a picturesque row house in our beloved Georgetown (surrounded though our enclave may be by that widely

Billy Joel: Everybody Loves Him Now

Billy Joel: Everybody Loves Him Now

From the New York Daily News Magazine, January 1, 1982: He asked Elizabeth to manage him in 1976. She'd already sat in quietly in most of the meetings of his carer. A former business student, she'd been seen as harmless. "I was regarded as Bily&

"It's Either Sadness or Euphoria"; the Billy Joel Documentary on HBO

"It's Either Sadness or Euphoria"; the Billy Joel Documentary on HBO

Hello, esteemed subscribers and especially today, those who are interested in Billy Joel, either before or after seeing the expansive doc that dropped July 26 on HBO. At five hours, it’s stocked with insights on each of his albums, and goes deep on a wide choice of topics from

"Tripping Balls" with "The Studio; the "Brutal Confirmation of Silence" in "Untamed"

"Tripping Balls" with "The Studio; the "Brutal Confirmation of Silence" in "Untamed"

"They're vampires," says Seth Rogen's Matt Remick early on in the splendiferously exploding farce that is "Cinemacon," the ninth of ten episodes in AppleTV+'s "The Studio." The relentlessly sweaty Matt has just heard some very bad news in

Put A Candle in the Window

Put A Candle in the Window

John Fogerty at Hollywood Bowl Is All About Family Put a candle in the window/`Cause I feel I've got to move/But I won't, won't be losing my way, no no/Long as I can see the light... That John Fogerty is an

I Got Your Cinema Right Here

I Got Your Cinema Right Here

The Ballsiest Picks for This Century’s 100 Best Movies “How could I forget about you?” asks the lead in one of Mel Brooks’s favorite movies, “You’re the only person I know.” Right you are, it’s memory-wiped Jason Bourne, the film is “The Bourne Identity,” and it’