How hot is Frank Sinatra? White hot, assuming America’s zeitgeist is to be believed. In addition to rumors that Martin Scorsese will direct a feature-length biopic about Sinatra, Alex Gibney recently assembled a two-part, four-hour HBO documentary about the singer. … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
Black Lives, Gray Matters (New York Stands With Baltimore)
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Advice to Young Filmmakers (2008)
“I think my best advice is really contained in the story of what happened to me when I wrote the screenplay of the film, Patton. One of the reasons they explained that they didn’t like it was the opening. I … Read More
A Fair & Balanced Assessment of Taylor Swift’s Celebrity Persona
October 27, 2014 – Taylor Swift celebrates the release of her new album, 1989, with an iHeart Radio Secret Session performed from high atop a sprawling rooftop in Lower Manhattan. After opening with an aptly-titled “Welcome to New York,” the … Read More
Moving On: The Apartment
It is the mornings I remember most, those mid-May sessions drinking coffee in the kitchen; windows open, curtains flagging, the salt-air breeze mingling softly with caffeine. There was no work, or very little of it during the week. The weather … Read More
19 Plot Devices ‘Furious 7’ Completely Stole from Better Movies (or Other Pop-Culture Entities)
1. A Mamacita waving her kerchief to signal the start of a drag race. (Grease) 2. The hero dropping several stories out a window with a woman in his arms, landing on the roof of a car back-first to protect … Read More
Marlon Brando on Success & Failure (1957)
“Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure. Of course, you can’t always be a failure. Not and survive. Van Gogh! There’s an example of what can happen when a person never receives any recognition. You … Read More
Moving On: Manslaughter
By Bob Hill John Vollrath filed out of Club Kaladu along with his girlfriend and his sister. Chris and Adam Short followed suit a moment later, slipping out a north-side exit with Joseph Mader a few feet behind. The three of … Read More
Lou Reed on Rewriting (1989)
“Rewriting really makes you focus. Haggling for weeks over a word. Just focusing. I tried all the vocals out before I ever went in the studio, and I’ve gotten pretty good at this, so that if I hear it in … Read More
Answered Prayers
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