Commentary
The sum total of George Wein’s career was a successful wedding of art and commerce.
The idea of America is elusive and sometimes, like right now, in danger of disappearing. That is why I have found myself turning for comfort to two books that can give us some perspective as to how to move forward.
No writer, historian, or filmmaker ever took me nearly as close to Abraham Lincoln the man as did Stephen B. Oates. I have always been indebted to him for that.
A household name in Black America, Lee Williams had little need for the kind of crossover project that can earn a gospel act attention from the secular music media.
The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.
The Everly Brothers’ close harmony work was so sinuous it sometimes seemed close to witchcraft.
Watts’ relentlessly unembellished drive on dozens of classic songs, from “Satisfaction” and “Shattered” to “Connection,” is what makes them so danceable.
These days, I’m not in a mood to be comforted in the theater by either toasting or roasting chestnuts.
The results of a Facebook contest for the Best of American Film Noir, 1940-1959
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