Mark Marcus

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

The meltdown at ‘60 Minutes’ has transfixed the media world this week, as Bari Weiss fired deeply respected staffers and correspondents, installed broadcast-news outsider Nick Bilton as the show’s executive producer, and sparked a messy standoff with Scott Pelley, who grilled his new boss and accused Weiss of “murdering” the show — all before being shown the door himself. A pointed termination letter, along with a stream of good-bye emails, statements, and rebuttals, have laced the saga with claims of insubordination, incompetence, and bias toward the Trump administration.

To Steve Kroft, who spent three decades at ‘60 Minutes’ before retiring in 2019, the show, “as the audience has known it, no longer exists.”

“They’ve made it clear — they being the new management, Bari Weiss and David Ellison — that they want to go to a completely different format, model, call it what you want,” he says. Kroft is not sure, precisely, what 60 Minutes will look like when it resumes: “It seems almost impossible for me to imagine what kind of a show they can put on in September.”

Read our full interview with Kroft: https://t.co/sXA4ZxtxhV

[TMZ @TMZ]

Ted Danson has carried massive regret for decades from an insane scandal that would've gotten him canceled in a flash amid today's culture.

🎥: Who's With Me? with W. Kamau Bell

[Buena Vista Social Club @BuenaVistaSC]

The singer who helped introduce Cuba's musical soul to the world. Ibrahim Ferrer.

[Mark Marcus @markmarcus7749]

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CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’ https://t.co/KyepWK8q7L via @NYTimes

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

During a hiatus from recording music, Rollins was spotted at the Williamsburg Bridge almost every day, no matter the season, practicing his saxophone. This experience inspired him to create an album titled 'The Bridge,' released in 1962.

Here's a thread about Sonny Rollins' connection to the Williamsburg Bridge. 🧵

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

Playing AC/DC’s music in retirement facilities is the way!

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Remembering the great Paul Desmond, who passed away on this day in 1977.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”

— Thelonious Monk

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

A Night in Tunisia

Art Blakey — drums
Lee Morgan — trumpet
Wayne Shorter — tenor sax
Bobby Timmons — piano
Jymie Merritt — bass

Tokyo [1961]

[Philip Glass @philipglass]

Philip Glass will celebrate his 90th birthday with historic worldwide performances and events.
Highlights include: World Premiere of Symphony No. 15, 50th Anniversary of Einstein on the Beach, special 90th concerts, and more.
More info: https://t.co/YBXXYSZVkD

[Herbie Hancock @herbiehancock]

Loudly celebrating 100 years of @milesdavis today!

“Miles never said much about our playing. He just wasn’t the kind of leader who gave notes or made suggestions unless we asked him to. Even then, he usually responded with cryptic comments, almost like little puzzles...

[Mark Marcus @markmarcus7749]

Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 https://t.co/ilkq3G0Gno via @NYTimes

[Mark Marcus @markmarcus7749]

Source: Los Angeles Times https://t.co/sVkUKI0D1Q

[Rachel @stargazer5_7]

@FurkanGozukara A clean exit …

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:

- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%

- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)

- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds

- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)

- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility

- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium

- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains

- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules

- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years

- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years

Ooops, sorry!

That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

[Mark Marcus @markmarcus7749]

Biography | James Morris | Kathryn King Media https://t.co/o52sUqfgCr via @KultureShockNet