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This seemingly unusual arrangement is is quite typical for Leonard, who has always focused on extensive live research. In his latest novel Be Cool, sequel to Get Shorty, the infamous Chili Palmer gives up the movies in favor of a music industry career. Leonard needed lyrics and inspiration for his fictional band, so research this time meant schmoozing with singers. He and his assistant met with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Aerosmith, among others, but Leonard finally found his ideal band by accident. Hanging out at a lounge in L.A., Leonard experienced a Stone Coyotes performance and knew right...
...This seemingly unusual arrangement is is quite typical for Leonard, who has always focused on extensive live research. In his latest novel Be Cool, sequel to Get Shorty, the infamous Chili Palmer gives up the movies in favor of a music industry career. Leonard needed lyrics and inspiration for his fictional band, so research this time meant schmoozing with singers. He and his assistant met with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Aerosmith, among others, but Leonard finally found his ideal band by accident. Hanging out at a lounge in L.A., Leonard experienced a Stone Coyotes performance and knew right...
Just as folk has handled even its most disconnected moments, Club Passim quietly thrives in the Palmer Street alley, watching Harvard Square grow up and retaliate against itself. Its folk platform has become "Americana," a broad, historically oriented aesthetic that unfortunately seems neither to play to the young nor to exhort the masses. The emcee and speakers at Passim's 40th anniversary concert emphasized that the club was "as good as it ever was," yet this impulse to confirm folk's endurance suggests insecurity over the more insular, less underground but perhaps less relevant position of Americana folk music today...
...also features "Swing 'N Sway Dr. Love." This dirty dog, clad in a doctor's uniform and sunglasses, responds to a loving squeeze by bobbing its head and singing a cheerful melody--"Bad Case of Loving You," by Robert Palmer. Like all good gifts, Dr. Love promises to keep on giving...
...points a finger at Chili Palmer, pulls a pretend trigger and growls, "Bang, you dead. But you don't know when, do you?" Nah, but Chili stays cool. Always. The hero of Get Shorty, once a loan shark, now a film producer, here gets involved in the pop-music biz, a field of endeavor that lacks the dignity of finance but is rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those...