Welcome back to round two of the 4th Annual Marco Awards. If you read last week’s blog, you’ve seen the big winners in the Movies category. (If not, go check them out here.) Sincere thanks to those of you who already let me know my recommendations have intrigued you enough to watch and enjoy some … Read more
So it’s 2024, three years since the hopeless time I introduced the Marco Awards to lighten the collective mood. Here, I nominate and reward the best entertainment that’s been streamed directly into my home for free. And since most people have completely run the gamut dry, compounded by subsequent writers’ and actors’ strikes, I still … Read more
Coming out of the 1960s, Broadway was emerging from the Golden Age of classic musical theatre and evolving into the new decade experimenting with a variety of new and different styles. Easing away from big, frothy shows with catchy production numbers and conventional storytelling, creators started delving into more common experiences and styles of exposition, … Read more
Today is the anniversary of Covid, which I have selected in 2021 as the traditional first day of the Marco Awards to commemorate the new streaming media. But the Oscars are messing with that schedule, moving them to the weekend before my big Awards for the second year in a row. It’s too much information … Read more
I keep forgetting the Oscars are coming up since they moved the date up a month. Plus, with the post-Covid neorealist disenchantment with entertainment awards and the fact that there are so many on the junket now. It used to be the Golden Globes were “an indicator”. Now the Globes go into the BAFTAs goes … Read more