Great men, great nations
The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna just commenced a Henry Fonda retrospective, which will run through mid-October. Among the 25 Fonda...
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Psychological testing
Up today at Critics at Large: my take on Nicolas Roeg's often maligned Bad Timing.
Glen Campbell, 1936-2017
On the occasion of Glen Campbell's passing, a tribute. And to complete a kind of circle: here is something I wrote about him three years...
Alienation, paranoia, entrapment (& other delights)
My contribution to KLUTE YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a new and already fascinating series on the neo-noir films of the Sixties (1964-73), appears at...
JESUSMANIA! update (3)
The nice folks at Jesus Christ Superstar Zone, a top fan site, asked to interview me about Jesusmania! Thanks to co-administrator Gibson...
A secret victory
Remembering the 1975 Boston Red Sox: not the weirdest team of its time, nor quite the best, but the only one that I, as a long-lapsed...
Big box o' Pepper
My review of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – the album, and the new Super Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition – is up at Critics at...
The hip idol’s hip idol
My review of Dion’s fantastic 1965 Columbia recordings with Tom Wilson and Al Kooper, newly reissued, is up at Critics at Large.
A core of power
At Critics at Large, my reconsideration of a problematic, important film, in which the question is asked: What does Rod Steiger have to...
The time I was in Time (almost)
Did I ever tell you about the closest I ever came to having my name in Time Magazine? Admittedly, not as big a deal now as it would have...
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