Mark Griffith

1 week ago | amsterdamnews.com | Mark Griffith

If you want a deeper appreciation for the Broadway production of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” co-written by George Clooney and starring Clooney as the iconic television journalist and CBS correspondent, Edward R. Murrow, take a time machine back to 2005, and then watch the original movie that was co-written and directed by Clooney. There isn’t much difference between the story itself or the telling of it in the film and the subsequent play.

2 weeks ago | amsterdamnews.com | Mark Griffith

Broadway stars singing Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” at Symphony Space. (Sean Sime photo) Few pop artists are as universally recognized for their musical genius as Stevie Wonder.

Jun 13, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Mark Griffith

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Jun 13, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Mark Griffith

“Don’t call it a comeback. I been here for years.”—LL Cool JI was in high school the first time I understood the power of national observance. It was the early ’80s. Stevie Wonder had just released the song “Happy Birthday,” which explicitly campaigned to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a federal holiday—a proposition that Congress was about to consider legislatively, but naïvely, I couldn’t imagine how anyone could possibly oppose it.

Feb 15, 2021 | intergameonline.com | Mark Griffith