John Tunis wrote these great epic baseball novels for kids starring Roy Tucker as The Kid From Tomkinsville about a young country boy who was destined to be the greatest pitcher of all time.
I must say this movie has aged far better than it ever had any right to, but here I am again to argue for the brilliance of Prince’s sort of Purple Rain sequel Graffiti
“The men don’t know, but the little girls understand” Teen idols haven’t always been a pure indication of little talent. There was Elvis, The Beatles, Ricky Nelson, The Jackson Five and on the warped
The typical film about the early years of Rock and Roll was called something like Rock Rock Rock or Don’t Knock the Rock, was in black and white, had Alan Freed in it, and
My life changed one winter night in 1982. I had recently started to get into music and I desperately wanted to go see a midnight showing of The Kids Are Alright, a movie about
“Hello Cleveland!!” They’re loud, they’re misogynist, they’re wasted, they’re extremely stupid, and they have armadillos in their trousers. This is Spinal Tap was essentially the first and still the best episode of Behind
Death does amazing things for a performer’s reputation. Had Gary Busey gone by the wayside after his swaggering confident performance as bespectacled 50’s hiccupping proto-nerd and Elvis Costello impersonator Buddy Holly, and before all
Welcome to Elvis Noir, also known as the Encyclopedia of Cool, Volume Three. Everyone says that King Creole was Elvis Presley’s best film, but what they are really saying is that it doesn’t have
“In Jailhouse Rock, he was everything Rockabilly’s about. I mean he was mean, surly, nasty, rude. In that movie he didn’t give a fuck about nothing except Rocking and Rolling, living fast, dying young,
“I’m not angry sister. I’m fucking desperate.” It’s pretty hard not to be fascinated by the Beatle’s Hamburg, Germany period. Lore would have it that it was sort of a wild untamed boot camp
A Hard Day’s Night begins with the startling crisp ring of a sustained Gsus4th chord struck from George Harrison’s brand new Rickenbacker 360 12 string guitar, only the second one ever made, the most
“Kids, you should never kill a man unless it’s absolutely necessary” Everyone should get to be the hero of their very own Frank Capra movie. This is Clint Eastwood’s, and it’s a fine melting