Celebrity
Happy 94th Birthday, Mel Brooks: Flashback to My 1993 Interview with Him When He Was “Just” 67
I published this article in the New York Daily News Live magazine on July 25, 1993. My editor was the wonderful Harriet Lyons. This...
Media
Beyonce Ditches Sony Music, Columbia Records for Disney Plus After 22 Years to Release Surprise “Visual” Album
From the looks of things this morning, Beyonce has ditched Sony Music and Columbia Records for Disney's TV Plus service.
In a press release, Beyonce...
Music
Quarantine Feel Good Music: Listen to Don Bryant, Famed Memphis Co-Writer of “I Can’t Stand the Rain”
Everyone knows Don Bryant in Memphis, and in gospel. He's the long time husband of famed R&B singer Ann Peebles, writer of many of...
Television
CBS Broadcasts the Daytime Emmys for First Time in Years and Coincidentally Wins Lions Share of Awards
For many years now, the Daytime Emmy Awards had no broadcast home. They went off the air entirely, then were just streamed. This year,...
Movies
Disney Blinks, Moves $200 Million “Mulan” Again Hoping the Pandemic Will Go Away
I feel bad for the marketing and distribution people at the studios. What can they do? If the pandemic is raging with new cases...
Music
Charts: Good News, Bad News for Bob Dylan — Number 1 with Few Albums — Just Bad News for John Legend, Beyonce
It's good news, bad news for Bob Dylan, bad news for John Legend and Beyonce, and no news for Neil Young on this week's...
Business
Apple Next? Microsoft is Closing All its Retail Stores Including Fifth Ave in NYC, No More Crowds Testing Computers During Pandemic
Yikes!
This makes sense but it's hard to stomach. Microsoft is closing all its retail stores. Of course, we can't have hundreds of strangers bouncing...
Music
Beyonce Music Bust: Topical “Black Parade” Single, Like Other BLM Anthems, Isn’t Selling, Just 15K Downloads Since Friday
I wrote the other day that new anthems for Black Lives Matter by Alicia Keys and HER Music just weren't selling. Great songs, important...