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Brown says that the conviction will be a "tremendous deterrent" to future pirates. Studio executives hope he is right but are not too sure. They note apprehensively that new home videotaping equipment that can copy films onto bootleg cassettes could make piracy easier-if a bit less polished-than ever...
Beacon Hill is about an Irish family newly arrived at affluence and influence in Boston during the 1920s. Old Benjamin Lassiter (Stephen Elliott) was obviously suggested by Old Joe Kennedy: bootleg whisky and ward politics are his main concerns. The children, however, are not at all like the Kennedys. The only son, Robert, mopes around drinking mostly because he left an arm in Flanders fields. He does provide what passes for the central dramatic point of the first episode by leaving a formal dinner party to visit a cathouse. As for his sisters, they are an equally sorry lot: Fawn...
...tapes were not released, but over the years various tracks kept popping up in bootleg editions. Vexed by such fragmentation and by the inferior quality of the pirated versions, Dylan recently allowed Columbia to release the original material. The two-LP set, called The Basement Tapes, contains 24 songs, and is one of Dylan's best albums. Musically it is a transition between the assertive, nihilistic Blonde on Blonde (1966) and the mystical John Wesley Harding (1968). The tunes on The Basement Tapes are pithy, dense and funny. There are bizarre, surreal lyrics like Million Dollar Bash and traditional...
...bootleg bonnet" is a black felt hat used to strain the fresh brew into a barrel. The term "100 proof was originally known as "gunpowder proof because the British found that whisky with about 50% alcohol, when mixed with gunpowder, would burn with a steady blue flame. Moonshining is not a thing of the past, either. As late as 1972, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms destroyed more than 2,000 illicit stills, and admits it barely scratched the surface of the trade...
...SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL and Other Guns with Which Americans Won the West, Protected Bootleg Franchises, Slew Wildlife, Robbed Countless Banks, Shot Husbands Purposely and by Mistake and Killed Presidents-Together with the Debate over Continuing Same by ROBERT SHERRILL 352 pages. Charterhouse...