What a great week, and the highlight was Wednesday night at 5:05 PM, 70 degrees, sitting outside, while over looking the 18th hole of the Trump International Golf Course on the Palos Verdes cliffs, on a perfectly clear day, sipping a glass of cab and watching the most beautiful sunset into the Pacific ocean. And I want to thank three of my long time friends of 35 years, international hotel power brokers, Rick Takatch, Chris Gelbert and Ed Socha. Talking stories and memories with great friends. Thanks guys.
Movie Reviews: Go see Renascence: A Film by Beyonce. … And I loved Maestro with Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, the strained and unique loves of the great American conductor Leonard Bernstein. It is playing now in limited release but will be streaming December 20th. … And The New York Film Circle who usually picks the Oscar’s best picture, has named Killers of the Flower Moon as the picture of the year, so we will see if they did it again.
The big Hollywood story since we last spoke, the passing of 101 year old Norman Lear. We all remember all the great TV shows and movies he created, produced and directed, but I also will never forget some of the theme songs he wrote and approved themes for, All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, Good Times, One Day at a Time, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. He was a great human being and did more for television in the early days than anybody, may he rest in peace.
Odds and Ends: Want Odd? Time Magazine naming Taylor Swift their person of the year. That’s an honor Time Magazine has also given to Charles Lindbergh, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin Rossevelt, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., so only appropriate, now Taylor Swift. Oh brother.
Christmas music is now everywhere, but the usual #1 Christmas song, Mariah Carey’s, All I Want for Christmas is You is #7. Brenda Lee’s 63 year old Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree is #1, and surprisingly Cher’s Christmas album is #2.
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