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Good stuff, man.
I too loved the Thompson, Franzen and Specktor books. I haven't read those Roths, but I've got a stack of unread Roth to my left...
Commented Jan 4, 2022 on Readings of 2021 at Some Came Running
Readings of 2021
The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson (Recommended by a friend. Enjoyed it quite a bit, as Churchill worship goes; I think Larson's writing here is a substantial improvement on The Devil in the White City, which I found clunky in parts.) The Nolan Variations, Tom Shone (A good way to lo...
Hey, I have that Evans in Toyko album. It's real good!
Commented Aug 26, 2019 on The 42 Greatest Jazz Albums On The Floor By My Coffee Table at Some Came Running
The 42 Greatest Jazz Albums On The Floor By My Coffee Table
People in the U.S. are really into hating jazz. Remember when a bunch of us got really cranky about that Buzzfeed “What’s the deal with jazz?” thing? (Yeah, no, I’m not gonna link to it.) Then just a couple of weeks ago on the Twitter a high-profile profile writer recounted how Billy Bob Thorn...
Shame on me for using "iconoclastic" and "icons" in the same damn sentence, but I just got home from work, so...
Commented Feb 7, 2019 on Blu-ray Consumer Guide, February 2019 at Some Came Running
Blu-ray Consumer Guide, February 2019
To Peter Nellhaus, and to the memory of Nick Redman. Equipment: Playstation 3, Sony KD50X690E display, Pioneer Elite VSX-817 AV amplifier/receiver. (As it happens even the U.K. imports I looked at this time around were all-region, so the OPPO was not brought into play.) Age of Consent (Indicat...
Coppola's THE RAINMAKER came out in late '97, and then Altman's THE GINGERBREAD MAN in early '98, and I'm still not sure what to make of "iconoclastic New Hollywood icons hoping to make some of that sweet, sweet John Grisham coin" thing, but mostly I was happy that they were working (with big budgets and big stars, to boot).
Hmmm, I wouldn't have figured you as a GOSFORD PARK-hater. Me, I love it.
Commented Feb 7, 2019 on Blu-ray Consumer Guide, February 2019 at Some Came Running
Blu-ray Consumer Guide, February 2019
To Peter Nellhaus, and to the memory of Nick Redman. Equipment: Playstation 3, Sony KD50X690E display, Pioneer Elite VSX-817 AV amplifier/receiver. (As it happens even the U.K. imports I looked at this time around were all-region, so the OPPO was not brought into play.) Age of Consent (Indicat...
I liked RED LINE 7000 a lot less than you did, though it's totally fascinating for a Hawks' fan. Mainly, the acting was just not...good, outside of Caan, who hints pretty strongly at the bigger things to come for him. (Okay, Norman Alden is pretty good, as is Marianna Hill.)
With a stronger cast, he may have had a HATARI! on wheels instead of an Elvis movie without Elvis.
Commented Jan 4, 2018 on A Christmas Gift To You From Some Came Running (That Is, A 2017 Blu-ray Consumer Guide) at Some Came Running
A Christmas Gift To You From Some Came Running (That Is, A 2017 Blu-ray Consumer Guide)
Let's get right to it. Equipment: Playstation 3 for domestic discs, OPPO BDP 83 for import discs, Panasonic Viera TCP50S30 plasma display, Pioneer Elite VSX-817 AV amplifier/receiver. I can’t believe I actually carved out the time to do this, although if you check out the release date of the ve...
A fine list. Nice to see the HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY love.
Now I'm hungry.
Commented Feb 28, 2014 on Ranking Best Picture Winners While Making Gravy at Some Came Running
Ranking Best Picture Winners While Making Gravy
8:30 a.m: First curve ball of the day: my preferred butcher doesn’t have pork neck bones for the gravy. Suggests spare ribs instead. What the hell. 8:45—9:15 a.m.: Get list of all Best Picture winners, paste into Word document, open other word document, re-figure-out how to work with two doc...
Really looking forward to this one. Congrats.
Commented Mar 29, 2013 on It was/is De Niro at Some Came Running
It was/is De Niro
Well, now the paperwork is more or less done and the work is well underway, I feel less antsy about publicly disucssing the book I'm working on. The commission is from Cahiers du Cinema, for an entry in its Anatomy of An Actor series. These are hardcover editions, beautifully designed and copiou...
And I haven't thought about Fez-under-Time in years. Wow.
Commented Mar 19, 2013 on How I was a dick to Clive Davis. Twice. at Some Came Running
How I was a dick to Clive Davis. Twice.
In commemoration of my friend Tom Carson's engaging review of Mr. Davis' latest book, The Soundtrack Of My Life, I relate this anecdote. I guess it was 1994. I had been a pop music columnist for the New York Daily News for a while, so I got asked to a bunch of music events, but by this time I...
I love that after Davis signed the Grateful Dead to Arista, in live versions of "Jack Straw" from that era, Bob Weir was known to occasionally change the line that's written "we used to play for silver, now we play for life," to "we used to play for acid, now we play for Clive." I've heard at least one clear recording of this. Cracked me up.
Commented Mar 19, 2013 on How I was a dick to Clive Davis. Twice. at Some Came Running
How I was a dick to Clive Davis. Twice.
In commemoration of my friend Tom Carson's engaging review of Mr. Davis' latest book, The Soundtrack Of My Life, I relate this anecdote. I guess it was 1994. I had been a pop music columnist for the New York Daily News for a while, so I got asked to a bunch of music events, but by this time I...
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