John Sebastian + the MonaLisa Twins bonded a little more than two years ago. It only took me 7 and 1/2 months to catch up with this “Make Up Your Mind” video. Apart from the fact that Sebastian is 50 years older than he was at the time of the ’69 Woodstock Festival, what’s the main takeaway? The fact that his voice has dropped a few octaves, and he can no longer sing this 1966 tune in G major.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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