WARNING: This piece should only be read after you've seen The Wolf of Wall Street. Thanks. Writing about the Randy Newman album Born Again in 1978, the critic Robert Christgau…
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I went into The Turning in the dark and in some ways I wish I hadn’t and in others I’m glad I did. I’ll see if I can explain. The…
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I managed to fit in a couple of appearances on Radio New Zealand National in the busy late-December period. Firstly, The Listener's Helene wong and I joined Simon Morris on…
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“Once, my father told me that the difference between the average Briton and the average American was that a Briton looks at a man driving a Ferrari and thinks, 'What…
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With Louis Jourdan in Letter From An Unknown Woman, Max Ophuls, 1948. Image stolen from Gary Tooze. Sorry! I can't even discuss Tom Laughlin. So many feelings. I'm going to…
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"Don't go." With Paula Prentiss in What's New Pussycat?, 1965. Because somebody has to stand up for him in What's New Pussycat?.
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