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Question: How much freight should a '60s musical icon have to carry? (Another question: How'd we get through that decade without using the word icon to refer to every pop star?) Forty years ago, the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and a lot of other talented young folks, wrote and performed terrific songs that opened the minds of people my age, expanded the pop-music vocabulary and generally made listeners feel smarter, cooler, better. And now we have two ambitious movies - Julie Taymor's Across the Universe and Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, both of which played this...
...Among the hot-ticket films that played Venice before Toronto: Ang Lee's steamy Lust, Caution, the Iraq war dramas Redacted and In the Valley of Elah, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, the Bob Dylan fantasia I'm Not There. Clooney and Pitt stood on the red-carpeted podium outside the Sala Grande to promote their product. All the big Hollywood films were shown in Venice's first few days, so the stars and directors could return to North America and catch a breath before coming to Toronto...
Defenseman Dylan Reese ’07, former captain of the Harvard men’s hockey team, has signed a one-year contract with the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League (AHL). Reese’s contract also includes an option for a second year. Reese comes to the Rampage by way of the Hartford Wolf Pack, another AHL team, for which he compiled four assists over 10 games last season. The Rampage is slated to open its 2007-08 campaign on Oct. 6. In his four years as a blueliner for the Crimson, Reese tallied...
...What Presley and Parker didn't understand was the revolution Elvis had created. He had overthrown the empire of nice; now the outlaw was in. Later pop stars, like Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, didn't sanitize themselves for the mass culture. They knew they were the mass culture, and they did films only as a lark. They had seen what indenture to the old Hollywood dream had done to Elvis: a bunch of B movies that betrayed his revolutionary promise, neutered the sneering sexuality of his early live performances. His top-of-the-charts ballads might have enlarged his audience...
...Tommy Makem, with his bandmates the Clancy Brothers, had catapulted Irish folk music into the mainstream. By infusing tunes like Four Green Fields and Gentle Annie with a raw, modern energy, the charismatic baritone became one of the biggest stars of the '60s folk revival. Among his fans: Bob Dylan, John Hammond and John F. Kennedy, who in 1963 asked the group to play at the White House. Makem was 74 and had cancer...