The Check-Up: Apple Falls Far From the Tree

Continuing our Close of 2019/Start of 2020 Review of the State of the Players in the Great Entertainment Semi-Finals.

What if this year's Golden Globes ceremony was the event at which Hollywood sealed its doom?

I was thinking about the state of Apple for this piece, and how their 5-Star Gala launch event raised the curtain on . . . the shrug heard round the world when the TV+ lineup was finally revealed.

In the wake of the launch, I found harrowing the specter of Tim Coo…