The perennial girl and two guns. Scarlett Johansson in Lucy (#36). My friend Mark Harris wrote one of the more compelling and convincing impending-death-of-cinema essays recently; it was published on Grantland.…
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"Butterball" Paige and his Bigsby guitar, at left, with Ernest Tubb to Paige's left. Over the past couple of months I've been working with my friends at Retrofret Vintage Guitars,…
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“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” Hunter S. Thompson used that Samuel Johnson observation as the epigraph for his 1971…
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Today, for Wondering Sound, I speak with Paul Thomas Anderson about the music in his new film Inherent Vice, and in all of his other films. I'm pretty happy with…
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Water and script pages, Here's To The Future, Gina Telaroli, 2014 The young filmmaker Gina Telaroli has a new picture premiering this upcoming Saturday, December 13, at the Migrating Forms…
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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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