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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

Herewith, an addendum to the below blog post that published on July 22, 2025: I'd like to add just a thankful whisper to the chorus of fond farewells to Catherine O`Hara, a wonderful actress gone too soon. Some decades ago I journeyed up to Toronto with an

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

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’

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

“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

"Succession"'s Jesse Armstrong delivers some entertainment almost as distressing as real life now is... As Jesse Armstrong peopled the "Mountainhead" retreat with the four tech oligarchs we'll be trapped with for an hour and forty-nine minutes as the HBO Max movie debuted