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Prompted by Dick’s post about the Johnny Depp interview in Vanity Fair magazine, I’ll share this account of his visit in 1991. I spent the better part of a day and evening with him and John Sampas. I waited a long time before publishing anything about the experience because I was…
Read More »Tomorrow, December 8, marks 30 years since the death of John Lennon. Yoko Ono remembers the quiet hours in this piece from the NYTimes. In another NYT essay, Ray Davies of Kinks fame recalls the inspiration that John and The Beatles were for him.
Read More »“From the low-lit fastnesses of my study, I looked solemnly at the newspaper headlines. On my desk, its brown pigeon-holes stuffed with ledger, manuscripts, sheet, inkwell, sentimental token . . . . on this desk of mine I lay the screaming visage of a Hearst tabloid—it said: JAPAN DECLARES WAR…
Read More »Read Shaughnessy’s giddy account of the Monday night game from boston.com. web photo courtesy of boston.com and Jim Davis, Globe
Read More »I spent $40 this morning to fill up with regular gas at about $3 per gallon at the XtraMart on Gorham Street, near the courthouse. Humorist Lewis Black might say, What the F#&*%! Did I miss a new oil embargo, or did China buy up all the crude last week for…
Read More »Following a tip from Gerry Nutter, I looked up the Herald’s George Kimball and his Boxing Notes in today’s paper and online. For a skunk-at-the-garden-party take on the movie and the principals involved, read Kimball’s column and get the Herald if you want more.
Read More »Over at Gerry Nutter’s place, he has a ripped-from-the-headlines review of “The Fighter” by his younger brother, Fred, who is a TV sports producer at Channel 7 in Boston. Read Fred’s take here.
Read More »Today’s Globe and boston.com feature more coverage of “The Fighter” and actor Mark Wahlberg. Get the Globe if you want more after reading Lynda Gorov’s article. Lowell, its architecture, its accent, and its hairstyles circa 1990, is in many ways another costar of “The Fighter.’’ To hear the brothers’ mother…
Read More »Writing for today’s paper, columnist Frank Rich vents his frustration about the President to try to wake up what Rich hopes is the inner Obama and get the President on the policy offensive against a resurgent GOP that is measuring the drapes for a re-do of the Oval Office. Economist Paul Krugman blasted…
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