He was a nice guy. And many of our musical heroes are not. By time the Beatles hit… Neil Sedaka was in the rearview mirror. And if you were of a certain age, and I mean young, you were clueless as to his success, which peaked in 1962, with “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.” […]

And they don’t seem to know it. We thought that the country was divided by right and left, Republican and Democrat, that hating and owning the libs was irreversible, that the country couldn’t agree on anything. But this proved untrue, everybody hates the rich. And the rich only found out about this as a result […]

What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where it takes sixtysomething rockers from Ireland to light the way in a somnambulant music landscape? One in which the Irish rockers were brought up on a divided island where the IRA fought for… We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969. But it […]

I first saw Harold and Maude as a college freshman at UCSB, and then two years later as a film student at UCLA. Colin Higgins, the film’s writer and a UCLA graduate, spoke after the screening about how the film got made. He said the film would never have worked if Hal Ashby hadn’t found […]