Another clue that they're channelling the Jobriath story. Good article making it more clear at NPR:
http://www.npr.org/sections…

The mob bit is there for to inform you of just how deep it is Richie is digging when he digs down to the bank of Galosso.

Really? I'm kind of getting a sick feeling thinking he's about to discover hip-hop (if that really was Kool Herc) and become a big deal, because they've done such a good job of making me hate his bitchy guts so far. If he turns into a humbled mensch and doesn't go back to pissing on Jamie, I might be able to take it.

Please keep your seats as the music plays. The collection plate will be around in a few moments.

The E-A-B scene is the best thing this show has done. If it's remembered for that, it's going to stay remembered.

I wrote about this in comments to the last couple of episodes, but either Richie ends up in jail soon and we go through that inside-controlling-outside trope, or Corso gets whacked and Richie gets to blame it all on him. I expect Galosso to be involved, either as the purveyor of the hit-man or by cornering Richie into…

Those kids are now writing this show. THEY'RE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!

Elvis was great. Cass Elliot was okay in one shot, not in the second. Some of the dream-scene singers have been half decent. The rest are, indeed, a wreck. And their costuming hasn't been all that great, either. It's like there's a B-team of high schoolers making the clothes from pictures in an old Sears catalog.

Had to be Lennon or Devin wouldn't have thought it was worth money to try to get a picture of him. She sure wasn't doing it just to get into that camera-lizard's pants.

That, iirc, was predicted when the reversion thing got publicized a few years ago. There will be a general whoring of the catalog raining down on us until it's imploded and stuffed in McCartney's vault to restore its chi.

But will it survive on the reruns and DVDs?

wha…why? why would they even do that? i mean…supes can just fly slowly a millimeter above the water…or batman can get wet along with him… are they on 'shrooms? is that the context we're out of, here?

ah, crap. just saw the review clip and it wasn't zak who said they could be pros, it was richie. i musta blinked.

He did okay for money. Each of those pictures paid him a million bucks and he could put a hundred thousand worth of butts in the seats at a concert, half of which would go to him. Vegas was easy money, no travelling and a loss-leader for the casino. And, as mentioned above, he owned at least half the publishing rights…

The one that was—aww, man.

"Hottie" wasn't around til the 90s. "Hot" was around in the 70s in reference to girls but not guys. I give you data:

There's only a little writer and director overlap between episodes. So if it's not just coincidence, they're being told by the show-runner to make it a thematic element.

One other thing I noticed: They had about $90K. Richie split it into three bets that would pay 35-1, or about 35*30K = $1.05 million. A million dollars. He was doing the maaaath.

Chicken. They probably won't let his binge run to the end of the season. So you're going to miss the comeuppance that finishes him or the deus ex machina that saves him. And there's still a tiny chance they've laid the seeds for a logical (if not entirely probable) and operatic resurrection. If you don't like him, you…

On the off chance you're not being ironic, no, she died in bed of a heart attack. She was big, but not so big she should die that young of a heart problem. Drugs almost certainly damaged her cardiovascular system.