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Fred Schruers

Fred Schruers

Fred Schruers enjoyed a successful high-profile career as a writer at Rolling Stone and Premiere, chronicling an impressive body of musicians actors, writing as well on military topics. He is the author of "Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography".

I Got Your Cinema Right Here

I Got Your Cinema Right Here

The Ballsiest Picks for This Century’s 100 Best Movies “How could I forget about you?” asks the lead in one of Mel Brooks’s favorite movies, “You’re the only person I know.” Right you are, it’s memory-wiped Jason Bourne, the film is “The Bourne Identity,” and it’

It Was A Zombie Jamboree: "28 Years Later," and snatches in the L.A. streets

It Was A Zombie Jamboree: "28 Years Later," and snatches in the L.A. streets

Dodging the infected onscreen; dodging the thugs in Santa Monica A lot of world leaders talkin' 'bout war And I'm afraid they're going too far So it's up to us, you and me To put an end to catastrophe We must appeal

"Dept. Q"'s Hot Take: "Be it conscience, karma or the universe, they are ultimately ...punished"

"Dept. Q"'s Hot Take: "Be it conscience, karma or the universe, they are ultimately ...punished"

“Authority that does not exist for Liberty,” wrote the storied if controversial English historian Lord Acton, “is not authority but force.” If you live in L.A.—in fact, if you live in Trump’s America and worry how we’ll ever rein in the administration’s harrowing campaign to

"Mountainhead"'s Tech Bros Mad-Dog the Planet

"Mountainhead"'s Tech Bros Mad-Dog the Planet

"Succession"'s Jesse Armstrong delivers some entertainment almost as distressing as real life now is... As Jesse Armstrong peopled the "Mountainhead" retreat with the four tech oligarchs we'll be trapped with for an hour and forty-nine minutes as the HBO Max movie debuted

How Did This Become Our Lives?

How Did This Become Our Lives?

“Your Friends and Neighbors” Lands In A Place Jon Hamm Owns The headline that leads off this post is a quote from Episode 8 of the above-referenced series on AppleTV+, the penultimate offering in a first season that will conclude Friday, May 30. (The streamer recently renewed the show for

At 42, John Mulaney Is Still Coming of Age

At 42, John Mulaney Is Still Coming of Age

In a May 12 set at Largo at the Coronet, the comic, blindfolded, ramped up for a major tour John Mulaney walked onstage wearing a dark black blindfold. The lanky, reliably smiling Chicagoan typically strides onstage well primed, limbs jangling, moving with a slight lateral sashay that he has attributed

"Etoile": Dancing Through High Culture's Extinction

"Etoile": Dancing Through High Culture's Extinction

"The arts are under siege," says Amy Sherman Palladino, and that sets the stage for an engaging romp that shows the battle up close When Lou de Laage first appears before us as Cheyenne in “Etoile,” she’s a whirling waterspout of eco-warrior wrath, railing against the crew