I did not meet, and have no first-hand stories, about Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who passed away Tuesday. The 80-year-old died in a London hospital just a week or so after the band announced that they would proceed with their next tour without him. I was at a 2003 Television Critics Association HBO
According to showrunner and writer Terry Winter, Vinyl bad boy Richie Finestra is “a pretty accurate amalgam of a lot of different record executives.” Finistra is the character at the centre of the set-in-the-’70s drama. A lot happens to Finestra in the first two hours–he even has a building fall on him. The series premieres Feb. 14
Mick Jagger’s giant face was among the disturbing images from my first day at the winter 2016 TCA press tour. I timed my arrival at the Langham in Pasadena to coincide with the afternoon HBO sessions. Among them was a panel for Vinyl, HBO’s big-name rock ‘n’ roll drama coming in April. The panelists sitting in