I’m blown away. Where was this movie when I was that age? Then again, if this were 1979 “Frances Ha” would be famous. It was expensive to make a film, going was the national pastime, we retreated from the theatre to bars to discuss them and we still believed art, if it couldn’t change our […]

Can I recommend a book? You remember books, that antiquated media model that requires dedication in our fast-moving society that is usually populated by quick-read genre trash. “We Are Not Ourselves” is not that. If it were a TV show, they’d call it a family drama. But that would imply it’s all about the interactions between […]

HOME SWEET HOME Somehow I missed this one. Then again, I’d equate listening to the Crue with the title of the album the original emanates from, “Theatre Of Pain.” Yup, Motley Crue was a product of the Sunset Strip metal/glam renaissance, loved by pubescent girls, but hated by the cognoscenti, until nascent A&R man Tom […]

Maybe you don’t want your dreams to come true. Christopher Cross went from unknown journeyman to the biggest star in the land seemingly overnight and it killed his career. Who can put up with all that attention? See Alanis Morissette for example. Sure, she’d tried to make it as a teenybopper years earlier under a […]