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Fred Schruers

Fred Schruers

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’

It Was A Zombie Jamboree: "28 Years Later," and snatches in the L.A. streets

It Was A Zombie Jamboree: "28 Years Later," and snatches in the L.A. streets

Dodging the infected onscreen; dodging the thugs in Santa Monica A lot of world leaders talkin' 'bout war And I'm afraid they're going too far So it's up to us, you and me To put an end to catastrophe We must appeal

"Dept. Q"'s Hot Take: "Be it conscience, karma or the universe, they are ultimately ...punished"

"Dept. Q"'s Hot Take: "Be it conscience, karma or the universe, they are ultimately ...punished"

“Authority that does not exist for Liberty,” wrote the storied if controversial English historian Lord Acton, “is not authority but force.” If you live in L.A.—in fact, if you live in Trump’s America and worry how we’ll ever rein in the administration’s harrowing campaign to