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I paused at my door, bracing for the damage. A small patch of plaster greeted my first footfall. I looked up to a crater the size of a healthy watermelon, and smiled. My guitars were safe. My couch was unscathed. On scale with other’s recent losses to the sea and the sky, it was not…

For a minute there, I wasn’t sure this new record was gonna make it to you. Kevin — God bless his patient soul — thought his deadline was November 15th. Of course, as you know, Dear Reader, November 15th is the CD release at Pianos. And I need to have it into duplication well prior.…

For twenty-one excruciating minutes in a southbound cab last night, I was pretty sure that my performing days were nearly done. I was explaining the treatment for my “Mr. Rogers & Me” documentary to Christofer Sunday afternoon. Like my ill-fated “Jackie Chan” music video (we shot and released it, but Chan’s lawyers sent a cease…

Chris and I co-directed our first film in 1981. It was a big-screen remake of the beloved television show, “The Greatest American Hero.” I played Ralph Hinkley. He played the bad guy. We didn’t cast a William “Bill” Maxwell (Robert Culp). But we had our Pam. Jenny DeLuca was a dead ringer for Connie Sellecca.…

I love Phil Collins. I can’t help it. He’s from a time before hip, from those precious days before my judgment. I don’t miss those times, solely because I never left them. While my colleagues can’t get past Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah, or The Unicorns, or whoever is the Flavor Of The Week,…

It gave me pause. It was one of those moments where CNN is all you can hear in the newsroom. Everyone’s tuned into the same story, and listening closely. Commissioner Kelly (Commissioner Gordon’s nephew) sounded dire, warning of a “credible but unsubstantiated threat” in the coming days. I was talking with my colleague Ben Cosgrove…