OVER L'ODE: YES IT'S SUMMER, NBA DRAFT HAZE & TRAVOLTA'S "GOTTI"
—- Today is the first day of summer…Always a good time to introduce the landscapers to the very American concept of “mid-season renegotiation.”…
—- The best thing that can be said about tonight’s NBA Draft is that at least it’s not the Major League Baseball Draft…Sneaking suspicion that the NBA Cheerleader Draft would do much better with TV and social media eyeballs…Even most WNBAers might halt off-court play for a night…
—- Pounce-on opportunity recently to see Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan…”LSD Tour” a retro-reminder of bar-top mornings when chasing the dawn, the road and unemployed 23-year-old divorcees with exes in the slam and free noontimes was the American dream…
—- Aesthetically speaking, John Travolta’s fried-tomato “Gotti” simply needed more dance scenes and a good beatdown of “Mr. Kott-ee-ay.”…But its $2.1 million opening weekend proves that there’s a robotic Cineplex goer paying every minute…
—- With incoming ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro reportedly set to scale back diversity and inclusion at the bulls-eyed broadcast behemoth, here’s a dandy contextualizer to consider: Of the top 100 rated single U.S. telecasts in 2017, 91 were sports-centric…Who said this “weapons of mass distraction” thing was fading into the red, white and past?
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