I've been friendly with the guitarist and singer/songwriter Gary Lucas since the late 1980s, so I've followed, sometimes from a fair remove, sometimes pretty up close, his collaborations with the…
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For RogerEbert.com, here. Also reviewed: The hilarious 300: Rise of an Empire; the effective In Fear, and the unfortunate War of the Worlds: Goliath.
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Kim Novak in Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1957 In the still-vital book Hitchcock/Truffaut, made up mostly (and in the first edition, pretty much entirely) of interviews between the…
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So. Here's where the gravy whose making I chronicled on Friday ended up, mostly. Turned out pretty well all told. (I did not take the picture; an appreciative guest did.)…
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With John Gielgud on the set of Providence, 1977. It was beautiful, for a while, to glory in the fact that one of the greats, not just of French cinema,…
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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…
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