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Book Review: The Yardbirds by Alan Clayson
"There were four rock groups in the world that really counted, and The Yardbirds were one of them."
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Air War
If you haven't read The New Republic article that Glenn Reynolds links to yet, you owe it to yourself to click on over.
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Deluxe 'Roger Rabbit' Coming to DVD
Daily Variety is reporting that "Disney is pulling out all the stops for the March 25 release of the 15th anniversary double-disc edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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Dressing the Man: The Art of Permanent Fashion
At the height of the Silicon Valley boom, several friends of mine, all in their 40s or 50s, who hadn't gone on job interviews in ages, each asked me what to wear to them. And in each case, I simply handed them my copy of one of Alan Flusser's books, and said, "read this".
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The Message is the Medium: Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi come to DVD
The fall release of Koyaanisqatsi and its first sequel, Powaqqatsi, is a wonderful boost to the medium of DVD.
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Virginia Postrel: Fighting for the Future
Former Reason magazine editor Virginia Postrel believes that the future will have little to do with traditional definitions of conservatives and liberals. Her 1999 book, "The Future and Its Enemies" divides the future between two groups she calls the dynamists and the stasists.
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures
Ironically, for such an iconic figure, Kubrick was the classic cobbler's son: a professional photographer who hated being photographed, who became a film director who hated being filmed. Fortunately, his wife has released a coffee table book with an incredible assemblage of photographs.
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"Oh and Sug--Don't Forget To Say Your Prayers"
Why do men love "Dr. Strangelove"?
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Digital Xanadu: Citizen Kane on DVD
Orson Welles, Michael Moore, and even William Randolph Hearst are all gonna meet down at the Xanadu Ranch.
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Behind the Glass By Howard Massey
In the 1960s, record producers such as George Martin, Phil Spector, Quincy Jones and Brian Wilson became household names, because they had a vision of how technology could create a new kind of popular music.
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