Christopher Sandford is the author of The Rolling Stones: Sixty Years (Simon & Schuster).
How times change. Our forebears once thought that full-figured Bill Haley was at the razor-sharp, frighteningly decadent and anarchic edge of pop culture. Compared to the Rolling Stones’ subsequent carnival of drug busts, court appearances, car crashes, house fires, paternity suits and chosen or enforced overseas exile, not to mention the matter of Keith Richards’s
Even if you haven’t seen the movie, you probably know the macabre legacy of Martin Scorsese’s early masterpiece Taxi Driver. Released 50 years ago this month, the tale of the eponymous cabbie Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, still has something potent to say about what can happen when a brooding loner finds himself adrift
This book shouldn’t work. A memoir written by a 60-year-old actress – who, frankly, has never threatened to become a major movie star – hardly sounds promising. Then there’s the author’s personal baggage. Since 2014, Cheryl Hines has been married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the raspy-voiced Health and Human Services Secretary who served as
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When Margaret Thatcher, who was born hundred years ago today, came to visit my school I was in the midst of my stroppy-leftie phase. To my shame, I remember announcing that all Tories, let alone Thatcher – the notorious kiddies’ milk-snatcher – should be put up against a wall and shot. When Margaret Thatcher, who
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I was struck by the way the Blake Bailey combines the poignancy of decay with his gift for dryly comic observation
It’s easy to forget that there was nothing inevitable about the film’s long-lasting success
This book, apparently 20 years in the making, is the product of immense learning and shows a rare familiarity with its subject and his times
Source Code is really a book about perseverance in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds
As much as anything else, Citizen is a book of omissions
From Here to the Great Unknown is a tale about the intoxicating highs of the entertainment business, and a grim reminder of its abysmal lows
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Entrances and Exits shows the Seinfeld actor’s clever, energetic, dissatisfied, self-critical mind at work
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How did the band achieve this curious headlock on our affections?
