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Great Movie Music: Fifteen examples that avoid the usual suspects [by David Lehman]
from The American Scholar By David Lehman | April 28, 2020 Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (1959). (TCM Mediaroom/Wikimedia Commons) In an effort to be mildly unconventional, this list of songs,…
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Squibs 412-415 [by Alan Ziegler]
412: In the early 60s, Jerry White has a folk music show on WJRZ, New Jersey. One stormy night in 1964, Jerry plays Another Side of Bob Dylan in its entirety before its release. I…
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Met Percent: Week Nineteen [by Alec Bernstein]
Couple Politics Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, Fra Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440, gallery 644; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze), Jacques Louis David, French, 1788,…
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The Rule of Three: Film Studies C-3003 Final Exam
Why are there always three sailors or soldiers, never two or four, on shore leave or furlough? (a) Because Gene Kelly favored the “rule of three”(b) Because one can sing, one can dance, and…
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Harold Bloom on Jazz
Harold Bloom [photo by Sue Mingus] . . . the whole jazz tradition from at least Amstrong on features what was called "cutting." And cutting is the pure instance – from the Greeks on,…
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“Lucky You” (a collaborative ode to Woody Allen, with a Harry James soundtrack)
On August 9, 2016, for the “Next Line, Feature” that The American Scholar posts on its website, we were directed to write couplets that would extend and complete an ode to Woody Allen begun a month…
