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The Big Carnival (Ace In The Hole)

Wes Phillips First Published: Jan 23, 2007 0 comments

Mark Evanier's News">http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_01_21.html#012795">News From ME points us to Wednesday's TCM broadcast of Billy Wilder's The Big Carnival. Why should you care? It's about as cynical a meditation on media manipulation as you're likely to see—and it is rarely shown. Paramount hated it (and its floppo status) so much that it deducted its Big Carnival losses from Wilder's Stalag 17 profits.


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Unnatural Acts of Opera

Wes Phillips First Published: Jan 23, 2007 0 comments

La Cieca at Parterre.com has posted a new podcast episode of "Unnatural Acts of Opera," wherein Elenore Steber performs at the Continental Baths in 1973. The Village Voice's Arthur Bell described the performance as "an affair to rank with the coming of Christ, the death of Garland, the birth of the blues, and the freezing of spinach."


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Southside Johnny Still Has it

Wes Phillips First Published: Jan 22, 2007 0 comments

Over at Living In Stereo, Steve Messick argues that Southside Johnny has been making the records of his career over the last six years. Forced to tour without his legendary Southside Jukes largish band, Johnny and guitarist Bobby Bandiera have stripped down his R&B sound to its blues skeleton, Messick says.


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