Posts Tagged with "biography"

Norman/Goldman: Sincerity, Sentimentality, and the Life of John Lennon

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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Norman/Goldman: Sincerity, Sentimentality, and the Life of John Lennon

Some thoughts on a recent dipping-into Philip Norman’s John Lennon: The Life, posted over on my Beatles team blog, Hey Dullblog.

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Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies

This is a two-part news program from 1989, where the author of the muckraking “The Lives of John Lennon” (just released at that time) debates Hunter Davies, the author of “The Beatles” authorized biography from 1968. Davies is very charming, and makes some very good points about Goldman’s tendency to veer off into—well, the nicest [...]

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Dennis Perrin at the UCB

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Dennis Perrin at the UCB

Dennis Perrin is the only person I know who is as obsessed as I am with the comedy of the 1970s. Actually, who am I kidding? For all the best reasons, Dennis is MORE obsessed than I am, as anyone who has ever picked up his tremendous biography of NatLamp/SNL stalwart Michael O’Donoghue can attest. [...]

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What would be in YOUR library of 1,000 books?

Monday, March 15, 2010

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What would be in YOUR library of 1,000 books?

This post, like every other, blurts to you from the mouth of my book-lined cave, situated a mere six blocks from the el grande wetness here in Santa Monica. With a bright public library just down the street and the cyber-servant flickering in front of my nose, a personal library seems like a bit of [...]

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Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas

Monday, February 5, 2007

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Devoted Record alum and all-around nice guy, Eric Metaxas ’82, has a new book coming out. It’s called Amazing Grace, and it’s a biography of William Wilberforce, the British abolitionist. Eric writes:…[T]his biography is the official tie-in book for the feature film Amazing Grace, which comes to theaters on Feb. 23rd, the bicentennial of the [...]

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Movies, movies, movies…

Sunday, February 20, 2005

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If you haven’t seen Withnail and I, be prepared for a treat. It’s a wonderfully funny and endlessly quotable tale of dissolute actors at liberty. I got it at Facets Multimedia, which is where film-lovers go when they die. Then, yesterday, I hunkered down at the Music Box (a repertory theater here in Chicago) for [...]

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Book roundup

Sunday, June 13, 2004

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Here’s what’s on my night-table now, in case you care: Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History, by Devin McKinney This book is very hard to describe; it’s one part Beatle history, one part psychological appraisal of the group and its fandom, with plenty of song-by-song appreciation and Sixties history in there, too. The [...]

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I love the UK!

Monday, April 19, 2004

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I do, I really do. Regular readers of this blog know of my used book addiction; according to The Independent, all of the United Kingdom also shares this problem. My feelings about the US, however, remain mixed. Those of you interested in tracking political news, especially the situation in Iraq, are heartily encouraged to investigate [...]

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