Rock and Roll Night on PBS
Wow, there’s a bunch of Rock and Roll movies on PBS. How cool is that? No commercials! My Dad was right there is some good
August 27, 2007
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Wow, there’s a bunch of Rock and Roll movies on PBS. How cool is that? No commercials! My Dad was right there is some good
David Lee Roth once said something to the effect of “All Rock critics like Elvis Costello because they all look like Elvis Costello” which
“He looks like that fella in the movies, Ralph Bellamy:” It’s a drag to be Ralph Bellamy. Sure you get to be in movies, you’re
“All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If he
“This is my Gun, Clyde!” The cool thing about “The Gauntlet” is the overkill. What “The Blues Brothers” was to smashing police
Something Wild is Jonathon Demme’s punked out version of It Happened One Night on speed with a twist. Usually in these affairs the male lead
At first, Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) doesn’t seem to have a hell of a lot going for him. Most of his friends are girls, he
There seems to be nothing girls like more than really sappy depressing movies where someone’s true love dies at the end of some tragic disease.
It bothers me when people get ticked off at Spike Lee’s public persona, because I think that he does himself and his work a disservice
“Let’s assume for a moment that you are a dishonest man.” Maybe the most warped movie of all time. Madness incarnate. The Producers brings up
Tim referring to what turns out to be a rabbit: Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this
The execrable Quicksilver would probably not merit mention if I didn’t have personal unique experience with its subjects and surroundings. It would be like a
Lee Blessing wrote a great play about Ty Cobb in which the hall of famer lamentingly compares his life to a “goddamned Greek tragedy.” Cobb’s
Poor Babe Ruth. He was desperately and passionately hopeful that his life story would be made into a Grade A classic like “The Pride of
The Supreme Court says that pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thought. That’s their definition essentially … no