Nineteen years after it was originally released, The Beatles’ double-disc set Live at the BBC has been reissued in remastered form, its two discs housed in a cardboard digipak matching the style of the 2009 studio catalog reissues. Also available is the long overdue sequel, On Air – Live at the BBC Vol. 2, leaving many Beatle fans wondering if...
DVD Review: I Am ZoZo
Just when it seemed small-gauge filmmaking was becoming a thing of the past (at least in terms of viable commercial releases), along comes the micro-budget horror film I Am ZoZo. Writer-director-cinematographer Scott Di Lalla decided to forgo the often characterless sharpness of high definition video in favor of Super 8mm film stock. Shot entirely on Kodak Vision3 200T Super 8mm...
An Honorable Man: Interview with Bomb Girls’ Antonio Cupo
Canada may have been on the other side of the pond while the historic battle known as World War II unfolded, but as a country it was no less invested in the conflict as far as manpower and womanpower. While their husbands, brothers, cousins, and other male family members (as well as friends) were risking their lives on the front...
The Man Who Got Me Out of Scientology
In 1996, I had been involved in $cientology (that’s how I spell it now) off and on for a couple of decades. It started off innocently enough. I was estranged from my family, had dropped out of college, had recollections of past lives, and wanted some answers and direction in life. I wrote about this previously for The Morton Report....
Music Review: Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way (Deluxe Edition)
The third album by Lenny Kravitz, Are You Gonna Go My Way (originally released in 1993), is also his third to be treated to a two-disc deluxe anniversary reissue. When Kravitz first burst on the scene in 1989 with his debut, Let Love Rule, many wrote him off as a derivative hippie-era ‘60s revivalist. The tag stuck and detractors continue...
Something Old, Something New, and Something Blue at Christening of Prince George
Prince George was christened on October 23, 2013 in a royal sea of blue and cream. His parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, tweaked the baptismal traditions to update the celebration. Something New Let’s count the number of royal tradition-breakers in what looks to the rest of the world like a completely conventional event. The mother of the baby,...
Book Review: Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork by Steve Gutterman with Miles Davis
“I only listen to certain people when it comes to criticizing,” Miles Davis explains in one of many quotes found in Insight Editions’ new coffee table book, Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork. “I don’t ask anyone who’s going to try and tell me how much they know about art. It’s like the same thing with music.” Music, of course, is...
New Music for Old People: Farther From the Style Was the Plan
When I was in the band The Blues Project in early 1967, I started writing songs that suggested to me that horns would make them sound better. I asked the leader of the Project, Danny Kalb, if we could add horns to the lineup and he turned me down, saying we couldn’t afford it (true). My songs pestered me into...
Daydream Believer: Interview with Ironside’s Kenneth Choi
It is rare that an actor has a chance to walk in the well-worn shoes of a character already familiar to TV audiences. Kenneth Choi is one such actor. He can currently be seen as Captain Ed Rollins in NBC’s remake of the long-running police procedural crime drama Ironside, which aired on the same network from 1967 to 1975. Choi’s...
An Interview with Don Jon’s Jeremy Luke
When he was ten years old, Jeremy Luke begged his mother to let him take an acting class. She finally relented and agreed, but the summer class he signed up for was not exactly what he expected. “It wound up being more of a singing type of class and I was the only boy there along with all these girls...