(To hear an audio recording of this article, click the link of the corresponding NFT at the bottom of the page.) It was the occasion of Grant Gordon’s 40th birthday that brought me to LA for the second time in my life. A New York native like myself (Long Island to city pipeline), Grant left for the West Coast nearly a decade ago in search of women, work and weather, and in time would find all three: his dynamic musician-wife Ash Gordon; a career in commercials becoming his parents for Progres...

(To hear an audio recording of this article, click the link of the corresponding NFT at the bottom of the page.) It was the occasion of Grant Gordon’s 40th birthday that brought me to LA for the second time in my life. A New York native like myself (Long Island to city pipeline), Grant left for the West Coast nearly a decade ago in search of women, work and weather, and in time would find all three: his dynamic musician-wife Ash Gordon; a career in commercials becoming his parents for Progres...

(Val Kilmer as Blitmap #16 Vanilla, Tom Cruise as Blitmap #82 BoysDoCry)(To hear an audio recording of this article, click the link of the corresponding NFT at the bottom of the page.) I didn’t get to theaters to see Top Gun: Maverick until week six of its opening run. By that point, the film had already eclipsed one billion dollars at the box office, including the first ever $100 million dollar opening weekend for star and super-producer Tom Cruise - a fact that gets more astonishing the lon...

(Val Kilmer as Blitmap #16 Vanilla, Tom Cruise as Blitmap #82 BoysDoCry)(To hear an audio recording of this article, click the link of the corresponding NFT at the bottom of the page.) I didn’t get to theaters to see Top Gun: Maverick until week six of its opening run. By that point, the film had already eclipsed one billion dollars at the box office, including the first ever $100 million dollar opening weekend for star and super-producer Tom Cruise - a fact that gets more astonishing the lon...