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Its a not widely known fact that for a number of years now Ive been writing the movie capsules in the New York Times television grid, in the storied footsteps of Howard Thompson, Jody Alesandro, Anita Gates, Larry Van Gelder and Adam Sank. This involves condensing NYT film reviews into 4 or 5 words. Which means that every once in a while you confront something like this: The Rolling Stones are here, pursuing their grail, live on film, dead on film, drenched in the boreal red (read rage) of a portable spotlight. (A gelatin mask over the face of fact.) They are phantoms that, in great, pointillist close-ups, when you squint your eyes, become the conceptualizations of yesterdays Pop mystery, which is, in reality—there is reality at the end of every trip—a memory collage of newspaper headlines, of rumored truths, of the titles of best-selling albums. Drug raps. Death embraced in a swimming pool. Sympathy for the devil. Also love. Love.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:21:11 +0000

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