Netflix – Gilmore Girls a Year in the Life. Not perfect, but full of beautiful moments. There were a few excellent one-liners (What was the exact moment you became a Mamet play?), David Foster Wallace references and a Hamilton send-up, “Stars Hallow Musical,” that was sublime. This section featured a scene-stealing Sutton Foster (and her…
This past week it was announced that you could no longer buy 11 albums for one penny as Columbia House – the most famous of the “record clubs” of the 1970s – finally called it quits. More lament for this aging baby boomer. Several weeks ago, I shared similar sentiments about how the modern-day versions…
The Background – Boom in Electronics I grew up in a special time in a magical place. The time was the early 1970’s. The place was Southern California. During that time, there was a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of musical talent and new musical technologies that created a boom in consumer electronics. Before there was video,…
AMC’s watershed, Mad Men, winner of multiple “best dramatic series” Emmys is about to wrap up its last season. This show has been so good, especially in the first seasons, that it has a set a bar for itself that is almost impossible to reach year after year. Those first seasons were remarkable in their art…
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Denny Tedesco, son of studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco, has made the best film ever about the Los Angeles studio scene in the 1960s and 1970s. It is called The Wrecking Crew. This movie will…
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]With so many genuinely great series coming to their conclusions in the past two years, the big question for those of us living lives of quiet desperation that require at least one hour a…