When George Met Gerald: Harrison, Ford
When PBS got a couple of White House photographers to talk about the special that premiered Wednesday, ““National Geographic Television presents The President’s Photographer: 50 Years in the Oval Office,”…
Yoko’s Housing Choices
It will be 30 years ago Dec. 8 when John Lennon was gunned down in the lobby of his New York apartment on Central Park West, The Dakota, where his…
Bob Dylan Rolls into Amherst
Of the artists flooding the market with unreleased, remastered or otherwise boxed up old material, only one of them is on the road, as he has been for 30 years…
Rent Still Too Damn High
He didn't win the governorship of New York, but Jimmy McMillan of the Rent's 2 High Party did get his single of the same name out on the same day.…
Cee Lo’s Rock and Soul
Cee Lo Green, who enjoyed an underground summer hit this summer with 55 million hits on YouTube, hits that other tube tonight with his new talk show “Lay It Down.”…
Obama On Dylan: No Cheesin’
“Here's what I love about Dylan,” Barack Obama tells Rolling Stone magazine in the current issue. “He was exactly as you'd expect he would be.” That is to say, for…
Taylor vs. Kanye at the VMAs: In Song
You know this isn’t anywhere near the best MTV Video Music Awards, as some backstage twerp was insisting, if the biggest part of the show Sunday came in responding to…
‘Stand Up’ to Sour Notes
When it first appeared a couple of years ago (also on the same of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon), “Stand Up 2 Cancer” seemed a sleek, succinct way to raise…