Television
Ratings: “Billions” Jumped Whopping 70% Sunday and Beat Also Soaring “Euphoria” (Up 24%)
No "Yellowstone." Hallelujah.
The absence of the horse opera and the apathy toward the Olympics really paid off for two high quality cable shows on...
Business
Jean Luc Brunel Dead in Prison, Epstein Associate’s Crimes Began More Than 30 Years Ago, Exposed in “60 Minutes”
Jean Luc Brunel is dead.
It's the end of a long story. I first wrote about him in the New York Observer in 1991. He...
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Happy Birthday Maceo Parker, Key to James Brown’s Music. Most Brilliant Sax Man Alive
Happy Birthday to Maceo Parker, who turned 79 years young today.
Maceo, his name is known because James Brown shouts out so often on his...
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Now ALL of Crosby, Stills, and Nash Join Neil Young In Asking to Remove ALL Their Music from Spotify
First it was Neil Young.
Then Graham Nash joined in. David Crosby was in sympathy with them.
But now Stephen Stills has jumped on the bandwagon...
Television
HBO’s Clunky “Gilded Age” Nets Nearly Half Million Viewers in Monday Debut Despite Poor Reviews
HBO's "The Gilded Age," the poor man's "Downton Abbey," arrived with 463,000 viewers Monday night. That's a lot more than "Euphoria" got on Sunday...
Movies
Sundance: Lena Dunham’s First Big Project After “Girls” is About Porn And All Its Glories
First let me say that I think Lena Dunham is an excellent writer. Between "Tiny Furniture" and many episodes of "Girls," I was always...
Celebrity
RIP: Meat Loaf Leaves Us Like a “Bat out of Hell” A Week After Ronnie Spector, a Year After Jim Steinman
Meat Loaf has left the building. He was 74.
Back in 1977, Meat Loaf was at the center of the rock culture universe. Two things...
Business
Broadway: “To Kill a Mockingbird” Hibernating, Will Return in Smaller Nest, “Girl of the North Country” Shutting Down
Broadway is suffering. The theaters are half full. Last week's total gross was $18 million. It's supposed to be $32 million. At least.
Now "To...