Kenneth Gerard
Stories (2/0)
Movie Review: I Called Him Morgan
Rock ’n’ roll makes a pretty flashy claim on the title when it comes to live-fast, die-young stars, to the point that they’re sortable by age, with 27 alone accounting for the losses of Jimi, Jim, Janis, and Kurt. But the more sublime world of jazz has its own tabloid-worthy roster of geniuses taken before their time. Seminal jazz age cornetist and Louis Armstrong contemporary Bix Beiderbecke drank himself to death at 28 in 1931. Charlie Parker dragged his heroin habit across his 15-year career before succumbing in 1955 at 34 (a coroner took a look at his corpse and adjudged it to be closer to 60). Clean-living hard-bop trumpeter Clifford Brown, who had already laid claim to being one of the all-time greats, died a year later in a car accident at the tender age of 25.
By Kenneth Gerard7 years ago in Geeks
Dear Hulu: What Were You Thinking When You “Recently Added” 'Staying Alive'?
One thing the release of T2: Trainspotting, Danny Boyle’s sequel to his breakout 1996 classic, Trainspotting, reminds us is that there is something irresistible about revisiting iconic movie characters years, or decades, after their classic adventures turned them into screen icons.
By Kenneth Gerard7 years ago in Geeks