Have You Seen Lily Tomlin’s Greatest Movie Role? I love Lily Tomlin – everyone knows her for her successful TV show “Grace & Frankie” with Jane Fonda – but since her breakout role on the TV show “Laugh-In” she’s always… Read More ›
Talent/Celebrities
Powerful “Music With An ‘M’!” From Kelly Clarkson To The Beatles And Tom Petty’s Mudcrutch Too!
Kelly Clarkson’s Divorce Album! As you can see by the imagery on the single above, Kelly Clarkson bared her soul on her new album “Chemistry”! That’s why my “Music With An ‘M’” dives into one of her most personal songs!… Read More ›
Mick Jagger Turns 80! Do You Know His Controversial 1970 “Performance” In A Bathtub?
Celebrating Mick Jagger’s 80th Birthday – In A Bathtub! Last week was Mick Jagger’s 80th birthday, and I want to celebrate in a different way…as my year-long look at the greatest decade in cinema – the 70’s – included a… Read More ›
RIP Randy Meisner…A Musical Appreciation Of This Eagles Founding Member…
RIP To A Founding Eagle… Such sad new for music fans…Randy Meisner, one of the original founding members of the Eagles, died on July 26 at age 77. His death was reportedly due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease – this… Read More ›
RIP Sinead O’Connor….A Tribute To The Music Of A Troubled Artist…
Clive’s “Take It Easy” blog shares lots of great music with us, and his tribute above to Sinead O’ Connor is a beautiful tribute to her music…there are many videos included, especially one that shows how funny, self-deprecating and intelligent… Read More ›
We Experienced Visionary Artist Yayoi Kusama’s Wild Creativity – In Paris And New York!
Visionary Artist Yayoi Kusama Is A Creative Giant! In this case – literally! Yayoi Kusama is a visionary Japanese Artist who creates massive structural art that is imaginative and spectacularly beautiful as well – as my wife Alex and I discovered… Read More ›
Did Mickey Rooney Really Have A “Potato Fantasy” Restaurant? The Answer Is Here!
Here’s a story I just shared over on my food site “Bite! Eat! Repeat!” A funny story of celebrity endorsements gone wild! The late Actor Mickey Rooney seemed to put his name on everything, but did that include this? Click… Read More ›
Marlon Brando’s “Deliverance?” My 70’s Cinema Look At A Wild Casting Coup!
“Squeal Like A Pig!” It is one of cinema’s most iconic – and unsettling – lines. And one of film’s most intense moments of all time. I just spoke to someone who didn’t know even know that “squeal like a… Read More ›
Do You “Fado?” Here’s Video Of Portugal’s Beautiful, Plaintive Music…
Happy New Year! (Belatedly To Be Sure…) OK, this may be a bit overdue, but I wanted to share a unique aspect of Portugal that my wife Alex and I discovered when we were there for New Years – “fado”… Read More ›
The Case For Warren Zevon…His Complicated Life And Brilliant Music…
First, please click on Clive’s terrific look above at three of the late Warren Zevon’s greatest songs….the videos are in his story, which looks at how misguided the Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame is for not including him… Zevon was a… Read More ›
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