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"Superstar" at 50

"Superstar" at 50

A nice write-up, from Religion News Service's Kathryn Post, about the 50th anniversary of Jesus Christ Superstar, for which I provided a...
Just Another Birthday Party with the Folks

Just Another Birthday Party with the Folks

My review of the new version of The Boys in the Band, with notes on the 1970 film, is up at Critics at Large.
Prisoner & Eunuch

Prisoner & Eunuch

My piece on Town Bloody Hall (1979), the Pennebaker-Hegedus documentary about a 1970 Women's Liberation panel starring Germaine Greer and...
Her eyes have seen it all

Her eyes have seen it all

My contribution to the annual summertime "Your Enthusiasm" series at Hilobrow. CARBONA YOUR ENTHUSIASM "is dedicated to punk songs of the...
They want to help

They want to help

This short musing on a virtually unknown film directed by Peter Fonda in 1973 is my contribution to the current year-long series running...
"Watch the third rail!"

"Watch the third rail!"

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a comic thriller, or thrilling comedy, retrieved from the volatile alchemy of "Drop Dead"-era New...
When Nabokov came to Gettysburg

When Nabokov came to Gettysburg

I’m a longtime Nabokov nut, and am going through one of my recurrent Vladimanias. In the last month I’ve read, by the man himself,...
Dusty

Dusty

Dusty in Memphis, one of the all-time greats, was released 50 years ago today. You know how you have first exposures that you always...
Altogether not bad

Altogether not bad

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), which is coming out from The Criterion Collection, was an altogether not-bad movie, as I recall, whose...
Slaughterhouse-50

Slaughterhouse-50

Slaughterhouse-Five, which turns 50 this year, is one of those books that in my reading life has undergone a real evolution, by which I...
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