Two-plus weeks after the Oscars, blogger Chris Molanphy defends the winner for Best Original Song “because friends and acquaintances of mine are still complaining about it.” Most of us loved Hustle & Flow from whence ‘It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp’ came, but there hasn’t been a serious morning-after piece about why — on the merits — the song deserved to win, so here’s one.
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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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