Monthly Archives: August 2007
“Cause it goes on and on”
I remember watching Celine Dion perform Phil Spector’s “River Deep, Mountain High” on MTV’s first Divas Live extravaganza in 1998. I was full of contempt at the time, having endured a roommate’s long-running obsession with “My Heart Will Go On.” But then Celine took the stage. She wore a dark duster as though she were [...]
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Lee Hazlewood, 1929-2007
“One of the most ingenious, inspired and impressively stubborn sons-of-a-bitch the music industry ever saw” That’s from Lee Hazlewood’s obituary on myspace. Hazlewood died Saturday in Las Vegas, but right now in the lefthand corner of his website, the little orange figure is blinking away: “Online Now!” Hazlewood probably would’ve enjoyed the absurdity. He titled [...]
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912-2007
Trailer for Eclipse (1962). “Modern Life is Rubbish: Antonioni on DVD,” Benjamin Strong in Fanzine “A Chronicler of Alienated Europeans in a Flimsy New World,” Stephen Holden in The New York Times “Hold That Shot: The languorous, achingly hip films of Michelangelo Antonioni,” Dennis Lim in Slate
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Campari and Fellini