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Hearne: Will AMC Theatres Survive?
Word that AMC Theatres delayed its reopening sent shudders through the industry… “The entire movie industry is shook up right now,” says KCC movie man Jack Poessiger. “The dominoes have fallen, let me put it that way.” That after both Disney’s Mulan … Continue reading
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Hearne: Remember The Good Old Days When KC Had Iceland Air Service to Europe?
Seems like only yesterday when you could hop on a cheap thrill Iceland Air flight and head for Europe… Remember? On top oof which you could take an extended layoff and party in Iceland penalty free. Those were the days. … Continue reading
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Hearne: Movie Critic Jack Poessiger Contemplates ‘Retirement’
He speaks fluent German and has been a movie critic here since the earth cooled… I’m talking about Jack Poessiger, of course, the author of Jack Goes Confidential and New Jack City here on KCC. So has Man Jack unleashed … Continue reading
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Hearne: Sports Talker Kevin Kietzman Poised for Comeback
This just in… Kansas City’s prominent sports personality the past 20-plus years – Kevin Kietzman – has settled his issues with Sports Radio WHB – the station he all but singlehandedly put on the map – and will announce his return … Continue reading
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Hearne: Anatomy Of An Embattled Kansas City Police Chief
Hard to argue that we’re living in an Alice in Wonderland, through-the-looking glass world… That following the death of George Floyd, the country has climbed through a mirror where – like a reflection – everything is reversed…including logic. Sound familiar? No? You must not … Continue reading
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Hearne: July Movie Theater Openings in Doubt
Things are looking pretty shaky again in the movie biz… How shaky? “I still don’t think the movie theaters are going to open up at the end of this month as planned the way the virus is going now,” says … Continue reading
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Hearne: Star Subscribers ‘Horrified’ By Bogus Police Chief ‘Hit Piece’
How much longer will the powers that be at what’s left of the once vaunted Kansas City Star put up with lame, over-the-top editorials and biased reporting? If that sounds like a mouthful, trust me it is. The once-thoughtful, local news … Continue reading
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Hearne: Kansas City Star Braces for New Owner Tribulations
Hard to imagine things getting much worse at the Kansas City Star… Then again, between coronavirus, bankruptcy, declining readership and revenue, an over-the-hill readership, and finally, a new hedge fund owner almost certain to lay waste to what’s left of … Continue reading
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Hearne: Is Lawrence Journal World On Its Last Legs?
The jury’s out… Can so-called newspapers survive on internet advertising alone? That’s question is looming larger by the day, especially as organizations like the Lawrence Journal World and Kansas City Star approach the point of no return as paid print … Continue reading
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Hearne: Ex Journal World Sports Editor Takes Bullet in Boston
It’s not easy being a print journalist…. Not these days and not that anybody much is grieving for them, given the quality of what passes for reporting in the current idiom. So it comes as little surprise that not two … Continue reading
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Hearne: ‘Notorious Madame Red’ On Canceling 2020 Ren Fest
Skin tight corsets and bodices aside, it ain’t easy being a sexy wench these days… Take Denise Groason – aka Renaissance Festival’s Notorious Madame Red – who is sitting out this year’s, whether it goes down or not. “If the … Continue reading
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Hearne: Renaissance Festival Playing ‘Chicken’ Selling Advance Tix For Uncertain Fest
To be or not to be… That is the question in regard to this year’s 2020 Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs. With everyone from the Kansas City Chiefs on down wrestling with if and how their seasons might go down in light … Continue reading
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Hearne: Speaking of Sports…KU, T-Bones Make ‘Fake News’
A pair of riveting announcements, certain to thrill sports-mined types… First, the Kansas City T-Bones “baseball team” will not be playing the 2020 season. Shocker. Frankly, it would have been a bigger surprise if they announced they would play. Indeed, … Continue reading
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Hearne: Murphy’s (Leftridge’s) Law Interrupts Honeymoon, Takes Down Site
Can’t a guy get married, leave town for a bit on a honeymoon without the site getting taken down? Ridiculous as that may sound – not the getting married and going on a honeymoon part – but out of the … Continue reading
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Hearne: Star’s Dave Helling Tries to Paint Patrick Mahomes Into a Corner
Was a time former KCTV firebrand Dave Helling was in a league of his own… Head and shoulders above most local television news anchors and their stereotypically vanilla ways. Borderline cutting edge even. Enough so that Helling was invited tom … Continue reading
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Hearne: Westport Entertainment Legend Bites The Dust
How could I not write about the passing of Dave McQuitty? For well over 20 years the controversial local entertainment honcho loomed large – for better and for worse – beginning in Westport’s early entertainment infancy. McQuitty’s United Entertainment managed a … Continue reading
Hearne: Kansas City-Lawrence Concert Scene on Death Row?
Where to begin… The Kansas City concert scene has so many loose ends at this point, it’s all but impossible to stitch them together. In short, things are a mess, on top of which there are plenty of nasty, behind … Continue reading
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Hearne: Scratch One Upscale Prairie Village Movieplex
One of Prairie Village‘s hippest entertainment options appears to have blown taps… Rumor has it that the best-kept-secret movie and dining complex known as Standees – named after former AMC Theatres head honcho Stan Durwood – is no more. “I’ve heard are … Continue reading
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Hearne: Amazon Buying AMC Rumor an Embarrassing Bust
Everybody in the journalism game loves a good yarn… By the opposite token, everyone in the journalism racket hates swallowing embarrassing corrections. So it is that you have to search really hard to find that a widely reported story that … Continue reading
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Hearne: Mission Improbable, KC’s Newspaper of Record’s Tax Scam Falls Flat
Ready for some head scratching? It wasn’t all that long ago that big shots at the Kansas City Star – like former editor / publisher Mark Zieman – would light their cigars with the kind of chump change it took … Continue reading
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