My favorite John Lennon vocals are the early ones with the killer bridges. The one’s where you could tell that every night of his life he longed for the ultimate love to come and save him. I just finished Dave Marsh’s new book The Beatles Second Album and as usual he sums it up far …
Daily Archives: December 17, 2007
The Shawshank Trick Never Fails
ELIZABETH, New Jersey (AP) — Two inmates escaped from a county jail, hiding the holes they made in the walls by putting up photos of bikini-clad women, officials said. When are prison officials going to start watching movies?
The Most Gratuitous Shot in Cinema History
Let’s zoom in under Bijou’s skirt for no reason whatsoever The single issue I care most about politically is free speech and freedom of expression. This Film Is Not Yet Rated, which I have previously discussed, is I think one of the most important films made in the past decade. Stores with huge market shares, like Walmart, …
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Elvis Gladys and Me
I’m 42 today. It’s the same age that both Elvis Presley and his mother Gladys died. A lot of people say he missed her so much that he didn’t want to live any longer than she did She was actually a pretty fun woman, but you can see from the picture that once Elvis became …
Massacre at Central High
Heathers came out in 1988, and though I’ve never seen it mentioned, its author had to have seen this movie from 1976, because it’s basically the same movie minus the late ‘80’s jaded seen everything sensibility. I just stole it off of E Mule (don’t get mad I don’t think there is any legal …
Maybe I’m not the sports fan I once was.
Terry Pluto of the Plain Dealer wrote this about yesterday’s Brown’s victory. “If you were at Cleveland Browns Stadium on this gray day of dropping temperatures . . . Of whirling winds . . . Of blizzard warnings . . . Of chattering teeth and slushy seats . . . You’ll never forget what your …
Charming or Scary?
For some odd reason I’ve been downloading episodes of the show Lou Grant lately from iTunes. Eventually, I was like that Linda Kelsey sure is perky and cute, so I went over to imdb to see what else she had done, because I seemed to remember her from more than Lou Grant. She was also …