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Is The Last (Sun)dance Looming?
The Sundance Film Festival, which wrapped up yesterday in the gloriously chic hamlet of Park City, Utah, is a throwback to far more significant and prosperous times in cinema history. When Robert Redford became one of the founders of what was first called the Utah/U.S. Film Festival in 1978, he was among the most bankable
For A Change, Los Angeles Is Getting Fire It Wants
It’s usually not easy for me to get excited about The Grammy Awards. I’m increasingly moving out of even the fringe of the target demographic of the majority of nominated artists, and I’d be hard pressed to pick any of them out of a police lineup. Were it not for the fact that in the
An E-Speciale-ly Troubling Silence
As “crises” in media go, this particular one that landed in my inbox overnight isn’t a five-alarmer. Lord knows there are far bigger and far-reaching matters going on these days, But because this particular one that VARIETY’s Brian Steinberg uncovered resonated with me on so many levels, I felt it’s something you needed to know
It’s Netflix’s World. We Just Chill In It.
Back in the Pleistine era of Hollywood when newspapers existed and cared about entertainment and budgets weren’t slashed to shreds by paranoid beancounters looking to save their hides by delivering the least negative quarterly results–ya know, the 2010s–this would have been a time of year where a lot of networks and platforms would have gathered
Fealty Bites
Do forgive me if I appear to be a tad less patient than usual, which I acknowledge is a diminished bar in comparison to many. I’m in the middle of an extended work schedule at a more remote location where my commute time has been doubled and it results in about a 14-hour day with
Into The Belly Of The Beast
I finally caught up with the seeming phenomenon of BEAST GAMES and its eponymous torquemada and Gen Alpha icon Jimmy Donaldson, aka “Mr. Beast”. Donaldson is ostensibly the King of YouTube, with his 350 million subscribers a testimony to the level of popularity and clout he wields. That’s slightly more than the entire current population
The End Of An Error?
I may not be the youngest or tech-savviest person with tentacles to media, but I know there are folks that are even less so in both categories. In the late oughts, an older producer excitedly trumpeted the opening of his independent shingle, cashing in on a few longtime relationships to get a little press in
The News Is The News. Or Is It?
The CBS EVENING NEWS is one of the more storied names in broadcasting history. It has existed with that monicker for more than 60 years and was the first nightly network newscast to occupy a half-hour. It actually has roots that go all the way back to 1941, when Richard Hubbell anchored two daily 15-minute
Once Again, A SHOW Worthy Of Your TIME
I have a long and complicated history with SHOWTIME. I actually was able to watch it even before I saw a second of HBO, thanks to the fact that the 12-channel cable system in my college town was the notoriously cheap then-monolith TeleprompTer and they were unwilling to pay what they thought were the exorbitant