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“The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be” by Meat Loaf
After losing his voice and then disappearing for essentially the 1980s, Meat Loaf reunited with Steinman and then spent another decade plundering what Steinman had done without him. Of the nine non-orchestra songs on Bad for Good, Meat Loaf would eventually cover six, leaving only “Stark Raving Love,” “Surf’s Up” (though it’s arguable that “Surf’s…
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The Prince of Darkness
On May 18, Gordon Willis died. While his death did make the news everywhere, it was not given the headline treatment that an actor would receive or even what a director or writer may get. But while he may not have been a celebrity of the highest order, few people in history were as clearly…
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Acting Is Hard
In undergrad, I once took an acting class. I got a B+, which is not a great grade by my standards. Our grade was mainly based on two monologues. I did rather poorly on the first, from Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. However, I did so well on the second, from Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, that when we…
Crowd of Full Pockets 