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BBC’s Wild China

I have a confession to make: I’ve become addicted to the BBC nature series on Netflix. It’s probably the natural result of a boyhood spent poking around in the empty lots and forest preserves around my childhood home, seeing what … Continue reading

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Various artists’ The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles

Clips of The Beatles playing on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 have become part of American popular culture, to the point that everybody remembers watching that historic first appearance, even if they didn’t actually watch it, or weren’t even … Continue reading

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Jacob Young’s Dancing Outlaw and Dancing Outlaw 2, Jesco Goes to Hollywood

Up in Boone County, West Virginia There lives the outlaw Jesco White And the way he loves to dance Makes all the men want to fight … — “Jesco,” Trailer Bride’s High Seas (Bloodshot, 2001) (Editor’s note, Feb. 2021: These … Continue reading

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Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe’s Lost in La Mancha

Terry Gilliam has wanted to make a film of Cervantes’ Don Quixote for at least 10 years, and in the summer of 2002 he finally got his chance. Plagued by the specter of one of the biggest debacles in recent … Continue reading

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