There are lots of great classic rock songs out there, but most of them don’t inspire lengthy reviews from the one and only Bob Dylan. Elvis Presley’s “Viva Las Vegas” inspired some great poetry from Dylan. Shockingly, the song itself wasn’t that popular. That might be because it came out during a dark time in Elvis’ career.
Bob Dylan wrote Elvis Presley’s ‘Viva Las Vegas’ is about ‘the devil’s bones’
For his 2022 book The Philosophy of Modern Song, Dylan wrote an essay about “Viva Las Vegas.” It started out beautifully, which is to be expected. After all, the “Lay Lady Lay” singer won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“The song of the gambler, the sportsman — luck of the draw — short odds, long odds, a flip of the coin, raffles, lottos and the devil’s bones,” he said. “The roulette wheel, pinball machine, the switched-on city,...
Bob Dylan wrote Elvis Presley’s ‘Viva Las Vegas’ is about ‘the devil’s bones’
For his 2022 book The Philosophy of Modern Song, Dylan wrote an essay about “Viva Las Vegas.” It started out beautifully, which is to be expected. After all, the “Lay Lady Lay” singer won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“The song of the gambler, the sportsman — luck of the draw — short odds, long odds, a flip of the coin, raffles, lottos and the devil’s bones,” he said. “The roulette wheel, pinball machine, the switched-on city,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Gilded Newport Mysteries, a crime fiction film set in 1895, the age of Victorian elitism, the birth of bureaucratic espionage, suffocating corsets, and the rise of the women’s suffrage movement. Despite being a murder mystery, Gilded Newport Mysteries makes me wonder about how little has changed over the years. Though on the surface it seems the world has changed for the better, closeted chauvinists still run the world. Emma, an intellectual woman in an era where such traits were discouraged in women, finds herself frequently sidelined from crucial decision-making. This exclusion highlights the pervasive influence of gender bias, a theme also seen in the film Enola Holmes. The references to Arthur Conan Doyle within the story further highlight this connection.
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Emma Vanderbilt-Cross is a budding journalist who writes for the women’s section columnist at a local newspaper in Newport, Rhode Island. While...
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What Is The Plot About?
Emma Vanderbilt-Cross is a budding journalist who writes for the women’s section columnist at a local newspaper in Newport, Rhode Island. While...
- 2/7/2024
- by Shrey Ashley Philip
- Film Fugitives
Director Martin Scorsese has made no secret about growing up in what he calls “a closed society.” Early years spent looking out the window of a Little Italy apartment into scenes of mid-20th century Manhattan—and at the kids he couldn’t play with due to asthma 0r the streetwise guys who would inform future gangster pictures—made him the storyteller he is today. His passion for cinema and for the Catholic Church, his two sanctuaries as a sickly child, were informed by this distinctly New York and working class Italian-American background.
His father Charles Scorsese teaching him how to carry oneself in that closed society, such as going to a neighborhood restaurant, influenced the scenes of Robert De Niro hanging out with Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets (1973), or Joe Pesci turning cold with Ray Liotta in Goodfellas (1990). Yet too often moviegoers, and even some film critics, are quick...
His father Charles Scorsese teaching him how to carry oneself in that closed society, such as going to a neighborhood restaurant, influenced the scenes of Robert De Niro hanging out with Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets (1973), or Joe Pesci turning cold with Ray Liotta in Goodfellas (1990). Yet too often moviegoers, and even some film critics, are quick...
- 9/27/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Anderson Cooper has spent much of his career roaming the globe, documenting the kind of stories few others are eager to cover — disease, natural disasters, genocide, war. Comfort has never been his mainstay.
But he has his moments.
In 2008, Cooper traveled to Cameroon for the CNN docuseries Planet in Peril, looking for bush hunters whom epidemiologists were following in their study of viruses that jump from animals to humans, with his longtime executive producer Charlie Moore, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta and Gupta’s producer.
Their temporary headquarters was a ramshackle hut deep in the jungle with no cell service. Once there, they split up to find bush hunters and made a plan to reunite at the hut. Gupta and his producer returned, but didn’t find Cooper and Moore there, and worried all night about his friends in the wild. Only the next day did he wake up...
But he has his moments.
In 2008, Cooper traveled to Cameroon for the CNN docuseries Planet in Peril, looking for bush hunters whom epidemiologists were following in their study of viruses that jump from animals to humans, with his longtime executive producer Charlie Moore, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta and Gupta’s producer.
Their temporary headquarters was a ramshackle hut deep in the jungle with no cell service. Once there, they split up to find bush hunters and made a plan to reunite at the hut. Gupta and his producer returned, but didn’t find Cooper and Moore there, and worried all night about his friends in the wild. Only the next day did he wake up...
- 9/17/2023
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
UCP and Littleton Road are developing “Vanderbilt,” a new series based on Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe’s book, “Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty.”
Patrick Macmanus, “Dr. Death” showrunner and “The Girl From Plainville” co-creator, will write and executive produce the project. Cooper and Littleton Road’s Kelly Funke will also executive produce.
“I am honored, grateful and thrilled to be teaming with Anderson on this sweeping story,” says Macmanus. “His book cut to the quick of four hundred years of American history with care and honesty, never shying away from the Vanderbilt family’s all-too-human faults and frailties. I am eager and just the right amount of nervous about getting this one right.”
The 2021 book, a New York Times best seller, “Vanderbilt” explores the birth of an American Dynasty and the arrival of Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt as an indentured servant.
“The rise and fall of...
Patrick Macmanus, “Dr. Death” showrunner and “The Girl From Plainville” co-creator, will write and executive produce the project. Cooper and Littleton Road’s Kelly Funke will also executive produce.
“I am honored, grateful and thrilled to be teaming with Anderson on this sweeping story,” says Macmanus. “His book cut to the quick of four hundred years of American history with care and honesty, never shying away from the Vanderbilt family’s all-too-human faults and frailties. I am eager and just the right amount of nervous about getting this one right.”
The 2021 book, a New York Times best seller, “Vanderbilt” explores the birth of an American Dynasty and the arrival of Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt as an indentured servant.
“The rise and fall of...
- 6/13/2022
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
After just three weeks on the market, and an unusually long four-month contract period, the longtime New York City home of late and legendary American aristocrat Gloria Vanderbilt has been sold by her surviving son, veteran CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. The buyer is powerhouse film producer Amy Pascal, who wanted the place with enough fervor that she paid $2.5 million, more than twice its $1.125 million asking price.
The former chair of Sony Pictures, who now heads up Pascal Pictures, where she produced the superhero blockbuster Spider-Man: Homecoming and received Oscar nominations for The Post and Little Women, shelled out another $950,000 for a ground-floor apartment that Vanderbilt used as an art studio, which brought her total outlay to almost $3.5 million. And no wonder Pascal loved it so much. It’s as unique and ebullient as her magnificent mane of kinky curly hair.
Jam-packed and flamboyantly colorful, the two-bedroom and three-bath co-operative unit,...
The former chair of Sony Pictures, who now heads up Pascal Pictures, where she produced the superhero blockbuster Spider-Man: Homecoming and received Oscar nominations for The Post and Little Women, shelled out another $950,000 for a ground-floor apartment that Vanderbilt used as an art studio, which brought her total outlay to almost $3.5 million. And no wonder Pascal loved it so much. It’s as unique and ebullient as her magnificent mane of kinky curly hair.
Jam-packed and flamboyantly colorful, the two-bedroom and three-bath co-operative unit,...
- 1/6/2022
- by Mark David, Dirt.com
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you ask LL Cool J, there is no “worst part” of being successful. “I think the worst part of life would be not going after your dreams and living a life of quiet desperation,” he tells Rolling Stone.
The rapper, actor, and entrepreneur, born James Todd Smith, went after his dreams as a teenager when he convinced Rick Rubin to put out his first single, “I Need a Beat,” in 1984. He went on to become Def Jam’s first superstar solo artist and has scored a slew of gold...
The rapper, actor, and entrepreneur, born James Todd Smith, went after his dreams as a teenager when he convinced Rick Rubin to put out his first single, “I Need a Beat,” in 1984. He went on to become Def Jam’s first superstar solo artist and has scored a slew of gold...
- 8/22/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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