Ivan Julian and Robert Quine at a 1978 recording session, photo by Kate Simon. This piece presented some challenges with respect to illustration, as will be evident. After I saw…
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"and every thang is keeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwllll....ooh lord!..." Back in 1985, when I was beginning my “career” as a relatively feisty and entirely earnest rock critic, I began dating a woman of…
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Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, 1955 The digital guru and blogger Anil Dash has raised hackles in cinephile circles today with a lengthy and rhetorically free-wheeling (to say the…
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