Paul Levinson

@PaulLev
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#author 20 books: #ScienceFiction novels (best known: The Silk Code, The Plot to Save Socrates), media/politics (best known: The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, New New Media); prof Fordham Univ in New York City; #podcaster; #SingerSongwriter (LPs: Twice Upon a Rhyme, Spun Dreams, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time); these days writing time travel, alternate realities; most recent novel: "It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles"
Main Website - mostly reviews of streaming TV shows and movieshttps://paullevinson.blogspot.com/
Podcasthttps://paullev.libsyn.com/
Musichttps://www.reverbnation.com/paullevinson
Bookshttps://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-books-novels-and-nonfiction-and.html
What I Learned from the Knicks

CNN Sports I’ve never been much of a basketball fan. But like millions of other New Yorkers and people with their hearts in this great city,...

Star City 1.4: Venus in Blue Genes

The most exciting thing in Star City 1.4 -- at least, to me -- is Chief Designer Sergei Korolev moving ahead with his plans for a ship with...

Disclosure Day: The Interstellar Birds

My wife and I just got back from seeing Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day on its debut day at the Chatham Orpheum Theater.  I thought it in...

my interview this afternoon with Deana Weibel about her important new book The Ultraview Effect https://youtu.be/-D15ZDDpQnM
Paul Levinson Interviews Deana Weibel about her New Book: The Ultraview Effect

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a great example of media determinism https://www.instagram.com/p/DYqtDJWkl1R/ (thanks @teevoz for bringing this to my attention)
Ads With Benefits (AWB) on Instagram: "In 2013, Mad Men aired an episode where Don Draper pitched Heinz a campaign that left the ketchup bottle out entirely. The fictional clients in the show said no. Four years later, the real Heinz said yes. The agency David Miami recreated the boards exactly as they appeared on screen, the press release credited Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce alongside the real agency, and the ads ran on billboards across New York. Don Draper finally got his pitch approved, half a century after the meeting that never happened."

30K likes, 255 comments - adswithbenefits on May 22, 2026: "In 2013, Mad Men aired an episode where Don Draper pitched Heinz a campaign that left the ketchup bottle out entirely. The fictional clients in the show said no. Four years later, the real Heinz said yes. The agency David Miami recreated the boards exactly as they appeared on screen, the press release credited Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce alongside the real agency, and the ads ran on billboards across New York. Don Draper finally got his pitch approved, half a century after the meeting that never happened.".

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In case you'd like to read all my reviews of For All Mankind, Season 5, melded together and smoothed out, all in one place https://vocal.media/stories/review-of-for-all-mankind-season-5 #sciencefiction
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Star City 1.3: Sadness and Joy

Apologies for reviewing Star City 1.3 a late evening later than I expected -- I was busy listening to the New York Yankees lose to the Bost...

And for a little science fiction about Marilyn, see "Marilyn and Monet" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076HHZP39/ref=nosim/?tag=dexter2a-20 #sciencefiction
Marilyn and Monet (English Edition) eBook : Levinson, Paul: Amazon.de: Kindle Store

Marilyn and Monet (English Edition) eBook : Levinson, Paul: Amazon.de: Kindle Store

Great piece in The Hollywood Report about Marilyn Monroe and her photographer Bruno Bernard https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/marilyn-monroe-bruno-bernard-book-excerpt-1236611769
The Man Who Invented Marilyn

OK, Monroe invented herself. But it was photographer Bruno Bernard who spotted a young Norma Jeane Dougherty and put her on magazine covers. Their fraught relationship is explored in a new book, and exhibition currently on display at the Academy Museum.

The Hollywood Reporter