Posts Tagged with "Goldman"

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

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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YouTube, Downfall parodies, and me

YouTube, Downfall parodies, and me

If you’re reading this, you doubtless know about the “Downfall meme”—a running joke on the internet where a segment of the 2004 movie “Downfall” is used to express real or feigned outrage at something important or not so. Bruno Ganz, playing an embunkered Adolf Hitler, freaks out at his generals not over the conduct of [...]

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Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies

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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