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Re: (TV) Films not totally off topic (Verlaine, Carradine & Muni)/Richard' s show/Steve Wynn



How about "Fahrenheit 451"?

> From: "Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:04:51 -0500
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: (TV) Films not totally off topic (Verlaine, Carradine &
> Muni)/Richard' s show/Steve Wynn
> 
> 
> Please bear with me for a minute---left off my list of favorite films:
> "Choose Me" (Alan Rudolph) [sorry, MM list member, Greggluvox!] with Verlaine
> look-a-like, Keith Carradine and with Lesley Ann Warren;  "I was a Fugitive
> from a Chain Gang" (Paul Muni)---has a strong 'Kingdom Come' connection;
> "Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen Brothers); "The Bicycle Thief" and "Umberto D"
> (De Sica);  "Badlands (Terrence Matlick/young Martin Sheen); and "The Hustler"
> (Paul Newman); "The Third Man" (Carol Reed), which Scott Aldrich also
> mentioned; and "Citizen Kane" , which  J.Germaine also listed.
> 
> Henry, yes thanks very much for the review of Richard's show--good work ---I
> wish I had been able to be there.  Anyone else in attendance care to add their
> take on the show?
> Henry asked: "Anybody have any information on Steve or Dream Syndicate? How
> good are they? "
> My 2 cents:  I'm probably in the minority here (but hell, that's never stopped
> me before):  I always thought the Dream Syndicate --and Steve Wynn
> especially--were one of the more over-rated bands.  I bought their first
> record and saw them at the old Inman Square Men's Bar in Cambridge (with   Bob
> Pfeifer of Human Switchboard as opening act).
> Self indulgent, not very original,  and Wynn------- for someone with his
> limited talents------ was just was a completely full of himself.  Of course,
> the audience went crazy for them.
> Leo 
> 
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