Amid the familiar milieu, however, there are subtle, inventive touches. The women in their lives raise children (or train horses) when they’re not scolding their men about neglecting family or the risks of their profession. This is a movie about Southwestern working-class men who drink beer, carry heavy tools, train in quasi-military fashion, banter in a weight room, attend a group family picnic and drive pickup trucks to a soundtrack loaded with AC/DC and ZZ Top. But under its slick, schematic surface, this tale of aspiration and redemption at least offers moments of genuine feeling. had a less generic title and fewer formulaic beats. If only Joseph Kosinski’s action-drama “ Only the Brave” - based on the exploits of the real-life Granite Mountain Hotshots, a troop of elite firefighters near Prescott, Ariz. (Did we learn nothing about the irrational exuberance of a generation ago?) The state of live entertainment is on the schedule, as is the rise of podcasting.Given what Northern California has endured recently with wildfires, perhaps it’s high time to honor those risking life and limb to contain such conflagrations. We will be exploring this strange new planet called the metaverse, and whether NFTs have a viable future. And in the trenches of the work force, job cuts continue without a visible path to reverse the trend.Īt TheGrill on Tuesday and Wednesday, we will be talking about those things with the experts in their fields, including with Kevin Mayer, the former top strategist at Disney who led a spectacular number of acquisitions (Marvel, Lucasfilm) and is now acquiring companies himself with his partner Tom Staggs - the closest thing I’ve seen to a from the ground-up potential new entertainment major. The market’s appetite for mergers has not let up even as Wall Street lost its faith in the new streaming religion. Billions of dollars in value have been sucked from the entertainment conglomerates. This year, like last year, change came fast and furious. It’s become axiomatic at our annual Grill conference to step back and examine the scope and velocity of change in entertainment and media.
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