Looking Good – Mickey Mouse at 90.
There’s a unmarked, modest building in the vicinity of Disney’s Los Angeles studios that doesn’t look like much from the outside. Yet, behind its doors lie temperature-controlled vaults housing a treasure trove of…
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Amazing Grace – the Long-Awaited Aretha Franklin Documentary
“She can sing anything. She can sing Three Blind Mice. Any-thing,” the Reverend James Cleveland tells the congregation gathered at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Los Angeles. It’s January 1972,…
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Of Popstars and Addicted Boys – The 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
This year’s Toronto Film Fest overlapped in theme for more than a few movies. There were tales of addiction and rehabilitation in Ben is Back, Beautiful Boy, Boy Erased — and yes, about…
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It’s Janet. Miss Jackson, if you’re Nasty.
When I first moved to New York, Prince was playing at Madison Square Garden. I wanted to go. A friend who had been living here for years before I did, told me not…
