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As I predicted yesterday, Sir Paul did join Boss Bruce for a couple of tunes in native Liverpool last night, namely “Can’t Buy Me Love” (with fans singing along) and then a less appealing choice, “Kansas City,” perhaps to honor the Beatles playing it in the city early on. Anyway, here ya go:
Never been a Billy Joel fan (for more than half a century now) but I will report that a new two-part doc about his life opened the Tribeca Film Festival a few days ago and is coming to HBO. Part I was 2 1/2 hours, so it’s a major bio-pic. Lot of focus has been on early suicide attempts—see this lengthy NY Times report—but few have seen the entire film. Though not huge fans, we put Billy on our cover back in ‘78:
If you watched the live, uneven, much-needed Broadway production of “Good Night and Good Luck” on CNN and MAX last night, you found it opening and closing with timely remarks by newsman Edward R. Murrow (George Clooney) at a dinner in 1958. This was long after he’d ,helped bring down Joe McCarthy but retained extreme worries, and prescient fears, about the future of journalism and TV. No one filmed that night, but someone preserved it on audio, and here it is, known today as the “Wires and Lights in a Box” speech:
Cartoons Sunday!
Hegseth as Grand (marnier) Marshal:
A powerfully sad bunch of cartoons.
Thank you, Gregg for the Edward R Murrow broadcast
He was one of a kind and a very good man
We were fortunate to have had him