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...been available for years in poor-quality, black-and-white bootleg copies at a few hundred indie video stores around the world, but there is only one way to see it legally. In 1972, Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank made a documentary about the first Rolling Stones tour of North America after the tragedy of four deaths at Altamont Free Concert two years earlier. The film was called Cocksucker Blues, after a song Mick Jagger wrote to anger record company executives with its stark, homoerotic lyrics and the aggressive manner in which he sings them. Although the movie...
...what does Frank think of the film 35 years on? And is it true that Mick loves it, but felt obligated to prevent its release to ensure the band could continue to tour? Does its director consider it as an honest document that in all its messy debauchery, anger, humor and impunity represents the true spirit of rock n' roll of the era? Who knows. Rock n' roll may never die, and certainly not before it gets old, but the 82-year-old Frank - who was present at the Pompidou Center to open his retrospective the previous night...
...movie world's first clear view of Audrey Hepburn was in a newsreel: the beginning of Roman Holiday showed the young actress, as the ruritanian Princess Ann, on a state tour of Europe. The world's final view of Hepburn was in 1992 TV newscasts of her visit to Africa last October - three months before her death at 63 - as she bestowed first her compassion on starving children and then her modulated anger at the causes of their condition...
McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrapped up a week-long speaking tour at Chinese universities last weekend, stressing the value of a liberal arts education. Lewis, a former dean of Harvard College, said that his primary interest in the talks at Hong Kong and Shanghai universities was to stimulate conversation. “I was not proselytizing for liberal education,” he said, adding that he was not adequately informed about the goals of China’s educational system to offer formal advice. “It would be presumptuous...
...world's other star molecular gastronomist, Heston Blumenthal of London's Fat Duck, largely avoided the question of technology versus taste, instead focusing on a new element in his ongoing quest to generate emotion through food. He introduced a new reservation system for his restaurant that involves a website tour and aromatizers filled with candy scents. It's all part of a plan to create excitement even before the client walks in the restaurant door. "The one thing I want a customer to say is that they had fun," said Blumenthal...