Posted
7:07 PM
by Gene
Two pontifications on show-biz from
The Paper of Re-CORD; First we learn (I learn) the NFL and the makers of a
Spider-Man tentpole have used
Irving Berlin tunes, which I suppose makes him "relevant"; but all it does is to highlight how irrelevant modern pop music is as Berlin and his contemporaries seemed to have mined all the good musical ideas, making them forever, and all today's geniuses have are chords, and beats, and
dross. (No accident that even in
this economy the musical based on his film musical based on his film musical got walloped by the critics; but the tunes may be good enough to save a show that isn't worth saving.)
Meantime another writer works himself into a frenzy at
yet another autumn of GENIUS from the movee biz. And if there's anyone who can't see posterity it's your fillum writer. Heck he doesn't know where the tip of his nose is. That won't prevent him from advertising.