NIRVANA’S “NEVERMIND” IS 20 YEARS OLD?
All I remember about this album is that it ushered in the grunge era which in turn forced me to stop wearing flannel shirts because I’d rather be dead than trendy. Yep, it’s been two decades since I wore flannel.
Is it safe now?
That music was so depressing, though. I used to call it “Songs to Kill Yourself By.” It seemed like all the fun went out of popular music as it became narcissistic and angst-driven. Laugh all you want at the music of the 80s, the big-haired metal bands and all that, but at least thet music was about living, about being young and in love and free. Rebellion is a much more attractive message than wallowing.
KIRSTEN DUNST: ‘PEOPLE WHO DON’T GET DEPRESSED ARE WEIRD’
Actually, people who think it’s weird to not get depressed are weird.
‘PEOPLE FLEE A POLLUTED EARTH BY GOING BACK 85 MILLION YEARS…’
We open in 2149 and things are going just as badly as ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ predicted.
This L.A. Times review of ‘Terra Nova’ lost me with that nonsense until…
…yes, there will be rampaging voracious dinosaurs….
Why didn’t you say so to begin with?
‘JERSEY SHORE’ DIPS TO SEASON LOW, STILL BEATS NBC, CBS
The world of entertainment sure is changing when a cable show beats the broadcast networks. Or it’s a sign of the apocalypse? No reason it couldn’t be both.
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SCOTTDS’ EPIC LINK-TACULAR
ANNE HATHAWAY’S FULL CATWOMAN COSTUME REVEALED
THE JASON STATHAM KILL COUNTER
MOVIE CHARACTERS WITH TOM SELLECK MUSTACHES
ALEX PROYAS TO DIRECT ADAPTATION OF ‘PARADISE LOST’ WITH CASEY AFFLECK
6 MOVIE PLOT HOLES YOU NEVER NOTICED THANKS TO EDITING
BELATED BIRTHDAY: CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF STRIPES
NIRVANA’S ‘NEVERMIND’ 20 YEARS LATER
MOST EMBARRASSING DELETED SCENES FROM SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY MOVIES
‘TRANSFORMERS’ RIDE COMING TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ORLANDO?
DISNEY READY TO LET ‘LONE RANGER’ BACK ON THE RANGE?
TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HITCHCOCK’S ‘PSYCHO‘
EPIC INTERVIEW WITH THE MIGHTY LANCE HENRIKSEN
10 THINGS WRONG WITH ACTION MOVIES
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LAST NIGHT’S SCREENING
Arthur (1981) – After thirty-years this romantic comedy/fairy tale hasn’t lost any of its charm. The casting of Dudley Moore is the real key. Even though he’s a spoiled multi-millionaire who refuses to grow up, it’s impossible not to sympathize with his character because — he’s Dudley Moore. Guileless, sad, and lost are Arthur’s main attributes and thanks to Moore’s Oscar-nominated performance, you never mistake the money and drinking and wonderful toys as anything more than the stuff he tries to fill the empty hole of his life with.
Sir John Gielgud won a no-brainer supporting Oscar as Hobson, Arthur’s butler, best friend and father figure. The way in which he delivers some of his lines is so withering you don’t know whether to laugh or duck.
This perfect film was the debut of writer/director Steve Gordon who, sadly, would die the following year of a heart attack at the age of 43. Gordon also wrote the grossly under-appreciated 1978 wrestling comedy “The One and Only.” He was nominated for his “Arthur” screenplay and rightly so. There are at least a dozen absolutely perfect scenes in the film.
Luckily I’ve managed to avoid the 2011 “Arthur” remake but you can understand why it flopped. Whereas Dudley Moore was all impish charm and pathos (even while driving drunk), Russell Brand is, well, creepy.
If you haven’t seen the original in a while, I can’t recommend it more. Thoroughly charming from opening scene to close.
Moore did star in 1988’s “Arthur 2: On the Rocks,” a sequel he later disowned. Sometime in 1987, while the wife and I were vacationing in Los Angeles and doing all the usual touristy stuff, Dudley Moore waved to our studio-tour tram from the window of his trailer on the set of “Arthur 2.”
I’ve never forgotten that.
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CLASSIC PICK FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
8:00 PM EST: Spartacus (1960) — An heroic slave leads a revolt against the corrupt Roman Empire. Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons. C-196 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format.
The sexual chemistry between Kirk Douglas and Jean Simmons is more vital the success of the film than most people realize. Watch it again and tell me I’m wrong.
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