Bart/Easton-Ellis: COVID Could Bring Back Film

from MovieMaker Peter Bart Predicts 1960s-Style ‘Reinvention’ of Movies By Tim Molloy Peter Bart, who helped oversee films including Rosemary’s Baby and The Godfather, says he believes cinema is ready for a “reinvention” like the one of the late 1960s...

Sign O’ the New Times

from SPIN Prince Collaborators Reflect on 1987 Opus ‘Sign O’ the Times’ “[Ideas] just flowed out of him like he was a conduit to the universe,” says Revolution keyboardist Matt Fink  by Ron Hart CREDIT: Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty...

Harry Evans Gone

from Showbiz 411 Harold Evans Dies at 92, Pioneering Editor Who Stood up to Rupert Murdoch, Ran US News, Random House, NY Daily News by Roger Friedman Harry Evans has been on my mind for a month. Isn’t it weird when that happens? I felt like something was wrong. This...

Loving Music & Loathing Bullshit

from Tablet The Great Stanley Crouch An American immigrant jazz buff expresses his gratitude to a supremely gifted critic who loved the music and loathed bullshit BY TONY BADRAN If I had to name the one writer who was most pivotal for me and for my full assimilation...

Vote The Assholes Out

from The LA Times The story behind that Patagonia tag, and how the Trump era changed outdoor recreation By SAMMY ROTH A provocative tag on a limited-edition pair of Patagonia’s Stand Up shorts. (Patagonia) Browse Patagonia’s online shop, and you’ll find...

Ripe giant sperm found in female ostracod

from The Evening Standard 100-million-year-old giant sperm found fossilised in amber could be oldest ever by HARRIET BREWIS The sperm was found in a mussel-like creature which got trapped in resin some 100 million years ago ( PA ) An international team of...