Hit parade keeps on rollin’
Glen Ballard, Songwriters Hall of Famer, Grammy winner behind Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill,” is getting B’way’s Winter Garden Theatre. His “Back to the Future: The Musical” heads there the 30th.
Michael J. Fox who played Marty McFly in the films, Christopher Lloyd who played Doc in the series, nudnik p.r. Jesse Nash, who thinks Ballard’s from Nazareth, rave the production.
I don’t care. I just want them to leave me alone.
In more music news, Apple Records’ contract that dissolved The Beatles. For auction. Opening bid: $150,000. Estimate: $300,000 to $500,000.
29 December 1974. Two page typed document of 13 x 8 inches. Apple Corps Limited Dissolution of Contract. All four signed “The Beatles Breakup Contract”: Paul McCartney, Richard Starkey, John Lennon and twice by George Harrison.
Question is: What’ll you do with it?
Whatever you do or don’t do, “Fresh Kills,” ’80s and ’90s Staten Island mob wives story, is fresh directing for actress Jennifer Esposito. Annabella Sciorra stars. Esposito, mob toughie herself, stays mum about who’s depicted.
Esposito: “I was offered $5 mil to make the movie — which I needed — if I only got producers this big male lead. Women earn scale and this guy grabs millions? How could I look at actresses busting themselves for scale while that dude is getting all that money?”
Fuhgeddaboutit until it gets a distributor. Or capo.
Words to be heard
Despite varying frailties, our GodBlessUs United States of America still allows opinions. Unless we become North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Ethiopia, Myanmar or other quagmire, I’m allowed an opinion.
Grand jury indicted Long Islander Daniel Penny, 24, bemedalled ex Marine sergeant. Manslaughter. Second degree. Prison 15 years. He surrendered. Wasn’t arrested. Crime? Applying a fatal chokehold on a homeless mentally unstable previously arrested man focusing on a female subway rider. An act to save her.
Forget Dodge City. Forget vigilantes. Forget the easy white versus black mantra. How’d you’d feel if this woman was your mother? Sister? This city’s a war front. Better to elect Bragg and sit back watching an innocent lady attacked?!
Flotsam & jetsam
Switzerland. International art show. Nothing interesting. Rich crowd. Every female schlepping a Chanel or YSL handbag . . . One Dr. Ruth tweet hit over 3.5 million mark. And she’s 95! . . . So I walk toward Lin-Manuel Miranda. He says: “OK, I know who you are.”
Can’t-beat treat
Summer. The egg cream. No egg or cream! NYC’s ultimate treat:
Inch of whole milk, not skim. Six to 8 ounces seltzer. Allow a head to form. Inch of chocolate syrup, seltzer, not salty soda or mineral water. Stir vigorously. Pour syrup down side of small, curvy Coke glass. Drink before foam dissipates. Neighborhood candy store guy’s early creation. Name’s from the Yiddish word “echt” meaning “true.”
More summer. Love. Romance. Heat. So after sex she tells him he’s the worst lover she’d ever been with. So he says: “With that attitude you can now go and untie yourself.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
