Back in April, I interviewed Daniel Hartwell, founder of the inaugural Beatles on the Beach Festival, which would soon descend on Delray Beach. I asked him to reflect on why the Beatles remain so perennially popular, with generation after generation. He answered, in part, “the music, if it were to come out today, would be a hit. It would be alternative rock.” Yesterday, a … [Read more...]
Sophomoric, witless ‘Office Christmas Party’ is a waste of fine comics
Seth Rogen makes funny look easy. This time a year ago, the comic actor-producer’s gloriously bawdy The Night Before was jingling its balls on thousands of screens. At the time, I wrote in this publication that “few comedies in recent memory measure up to middle hour of ‘The Night Before’ in its hedonistic inspiration, its rat-a-tat barrage of brilliant material, one joke … [Read more...]