My latest film, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today” has been airing over PBS stations this past month and streaming (key links to easily watch and more here). A companion book, my 14th, has been available, and you can read more or order here. Thank you. And subscribing to this newsletter is still somehow FREE.
Let’s get right to it. Stephen last night:
As I wrote in tribute a few days ago, my friend, mentor and co-author Robert Jay Lifton has died at 99. Here is this week’s Democracy Now! segment on him and excerpt from 2017 interview that was prescient about Trump’s craziness.
Two trailers just dropped for rather different films. First, Richard Linklater’s take on the making of the classic Godard “New Wave” film “Breathless.” Coming to Netflix in November.
And for a Christmas, Hugh Jackman as…a Neil Diamond “interpreter.” Cheery, baby.
Song Pick: There’s a new album coming in October for John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Plastic Ono Band, “Power To The People: Live at the One To One Concert.” Apparently there’s also a “super deluxe” package with various tunes recorded in that period, including this one just released today, a very casual take at the St. Regis Hotel on ‘50s rocker “Honey Don’t.”
And “Instant Karma” from the concert:
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