BruceH

All the best!

More like it deserves its mediocre rating?

That jazz fans also like The Wire? True in my case.

I hope he is. He may not be a perfect writer (who is?) but I usually get some enjoyment from his stuff. (And Like Young came out back in, what, 2002? About time for another one.)

I THINK he's still a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and occasionally The New Yorker, though it's been a while since I've seen anything with his name on it. OTOH, I don't look at every single issue of those magazines anymore. Someone also told me that he contributes to The New York Times, but that was a year or two ago. He certainly hasn't seemed to come out with a collection of writings for quite a while.

Same here, especially when she was singing about extra "length" and "pleasure..."

Maybe he's simply taken time off to learn how to punctuate.

May your birthday be full of good music and good cheer.

AMC has been playing "The Sting". I can't believe some of the lines that have been edited out. Henry Gondorff: "Sorry I'm late. I was taking a crap." Henry Gondorff:"Glad to meet you, kid, you're a real horse's ass" Between the commercials and the censorship I find it's hardly worth watching anything on AMC these days.

I was just recently listening to the Mode Frank Rosolino Quintet album coincidentally. Great album; I think I'll dig it out yet again.

Indeed! That book was and is great!

Sad news, indeed. A fine photographer. (I think I used to have a book of his Beatles photos.) RIP

Hearty congratulations, guys!

According to Wikipedia he passed away in 2005, stopped writing in 1996 or so.

Funny photo. The fact that he's watching the Scooby-Doo show takes it to an extra level.

I guess Forest Whitaker will eventually play Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, and Sonny Stitt as well. He's the "go-to" actor to play black jazz musicians. No one else will do.

Busby goes way back. I don't know if he was ever really big, but I do seem to remember him being mentioned more in the 70's. Never read him myself. Wait, didn't he write that short story "If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy"? Great title.

I agree, but not just any screen, a BIG screen; like, movie palace big, if possible. You're right, Adam. I was struck all over again at the large number of sound-based jokes in his movies. Sure, Tati was an intensely visual comic, but has anyone ever made wider and cleverer use of sound effects? I tend to doubt it.

Funny you should say that. Right after the last Tati film (Playtime, which is to say, Play Time) they showed The General and The Navigator.

Hey, I could use $425!

For those who get TCM and are Jacques Tati fans, TCM is having a Tati festival tonight. Starting at 5:00 PM Pacific (8:00 Eastern) they're showing Jour de Fete, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, and Playtime (which they're listing as "Play Time" but I always thought it was one word.) And remember, all people who aren't Tati fans, SHOULD be!

Just watched the new Criterion of Ophuls' La Ronde. It looks great and there's a nice commentary. Hadn't seen this film in years and years.

Clean, unsexy, unswinging, non-jazz.

The lead instument would be the "nega" of course. Whatever that is.

...Especially if there's a pandemic.