Keith wrote:
In message <20050928185137.59635.qmail@web33507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com> writes > He is immature, petty, vindictive, lacking a sense of humor, overly >impressed with his own importance and not very bright. And this is the same film the rest of us were watching?
No - unless the rest of us were watching "Don't Look Back." Jay's quote is - I presume unintentionally - very misleading. The link Jay gives is to Ebert's 1968 review of that earlier documentary. In Ebert's review of the current Scorcese film (http://tinyurl.com/8eqz), he quotes these same words and explains how the new movie has altered his perspective by showing more clearly the kinds of pressures Dylan was under and the kinds of idiocy he had to deal with from the press. (In their defense, I must say that as I watched the film, I found myself thinking that the reporters of that time were at a loss in trying to deal with a fairly new phenomenon - a "pop singer" who should be taken seriously as a poet and an artist. Though that doesn't explain questions like "How many protest singers are there?" or a photographer's request for Dylan to "suck your eyeglasses.") Near the end of the review, Ebert writes, "What I feel for Dylan now and did not feel before is empathy."
- JesseP.S. Joan Baez still looks great, I've gotta say. And she's quite frank about how uptight she was back then.
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