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Screen Gems book

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Screen Gems book

Every Picture Tells A Story: Harvey Kubernik's 'Screen Gems' Tracking Angle contributor Harvey Kubernik's latest book proves "dancing about architecture" - or moving pictures - isn't so bad Rule number one: every documentary has an angle.   I’ve experienced how a “rock doc” can rewrite its subject’s history. In the twilight of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Jackson’s radical re-edit (his angle) of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Let It Be footage swept a touch-starved Beatles fanbase. The joy! The memes! Glyn Johns’s fabulous outfits! Jackson’s presentation of the Get Back project fundamentally changed the narrative of the Beatles’ January 1969 sessions.   There's something lost in writing this...

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Anita Ekberg in the NY Sun!

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Anita Ekberg in the NY Sun!

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Butterflies in the Rain

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Butterflies in the Rain

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coming soon from Channel Academic

coming soon from Channel Academic

 

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Judy Garland play Q&A

Judy Garland play Q&A

Q & A for Priscilla Meyer about Heartbreaker and her brother, John Meyer   1.          Can you tell us about your brother, John Meyer? Growing up, was John always interested in songwriting?   My earliest memory of Johnny is from a summer in a rented house in Westchester County, NY in the late 1940s, when he was 10, and I was 5. He decided to do a “radio show”—we were fans of Fred Allen, Jack Benny, the Lone Ranger. He wrote a script full of parodies, and taught me the words: “I’m as corny as Kansas in August/With a conventional...

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