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...coming generation of comics craftsmen needn't toil in the dark, nursing an inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...
...gonna lie: I blubbered for most of the film. I fell for every cheesy line and every truly beautiful song. There’s just one problem: much of the film’s message is absolutely absurd.For those of you who have been living under a rock in outer space, “Rent” is a movie about young artists living in New York’s Alphabet City at the beginning of the 1990s. It starts with the diverse cast explaining that it doesn’t want to pay its rent for the previous year...
...CHARGED. PAUL FRANCIS GADD, 61, a.k.a. Gary Glitter, with "committing lewd acts with minors"; in Vung Tau, Vietnam. The 1970s glam-rock icon best known for hits like Rock and Roll (Part 2) and Leader of the Gang served two months in prison in his native Great Britain in 1999 for possession of child pornography and was expelled from Cambodia in 2002 under suspicion of pedophilia, an accusation he denied. According to police, five young girls, one aged 11, say he paid them $10-20 for sex at his rented home. Gadd denies the allegations, saying that he only taught...
...been there before. Gaudio was writing blame songs long before he hooked up with the Seasons. "I cried for you, now cry for me ... You made a fool of me, so now I'm leavin' you." And Crewe's "Silhouettes," written with Frank Slay, Jr., is an early rock-'n-roll story song, in which the singer pines that he's seen his girl kiss another guy behind her drawn windowshade. His furious knocks on the building's door are answered by a stranger, who "said to my shock / 'You're on the wrong block.'" Finally he rushes back...
...preferred vocal group. As for the Seasons' lyrics, I guarantee nobody was parsing them to determine the romantic ache, handed out and absorbed, behind the perky melodies and simple rhymes. (It took the Beatles to bring together the '60s teen's high and low aspects: English lit and rock 'n' roll...