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Roger Ebert and The Sex Pistols in… a failed screenplay

April 26, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Late Sunday night, famed Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert posted one long article. Actually, it wasn’t so much an article as it was a screenplay. Ebert opened his vault and unloaded part of the script he wrote for a Sex Pistols-focused movie. Originally titled “Anarchy in the U.K.” and later retitled “Who Killed Bambi?,” the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Anarchy in the U.K., movie, music, punk, Roger Ebert, screenplay, the Sex Pistols, Who Killed Bambi?

In defense of music criticism

April 2, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Steve Almond wrote a little diatribe raging against music criticism for The Boston Globe a couple weeks ago. I say “little” because his argument is just that: Weak, narrow-minded, short-sighted… All of these things and more. For an author/journalist whose work I’ve enjoyed when I come across it, I was genuinely shocked to see the contempt … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Arts, Can't Stop Won't Stop, Chuck D, Jeff Chang, journalism, MC Hammer, music, Music Critic Paradox, music criticism, music journalism, Public Enemy, Roger Ebert, Steve Almond, The Boston Globe

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