Wanda Jackson and Jack White Have Special Relationship
Read a nice piece about rockabilly royalty Wanda Jackson apprehension about working with Jack White on a new album. Hopefully you heard Jack’s terrific work with Loretta Lynn on “Van Lear Rose” — one of my favorite albums of the last decade. Hope to see this duo in person, until then here’s the clip from […]
J.D. Salinger — Tough Guy
The reason most recent offerings from the literary elite leave me cold is that the authors have little say. How much experience can a writer have from college into an MFA program and then onto the NYC cocktail party scene? But the real ones, the great ones, had personal stories to tell — even if […]
Fritz Lang Hated Happy Endings
Great piece on German noir genius Fritz Lang today in the New York Times. Fritz directed a couple of my all-time favorite films: The Blue Gardenia and The Big Heat. It seems getting good movies made was even a pain in the ass for Fritz. A new retrospective of his work opens this weekend in […]