 Winter 2007
Letter
from the Editor

First Loves
BY Leonard Pierce

An American City
New Orleans, Helen Hill and Me
BY Phil Nugent




Film School in 93 Minutes
Woody Allen’s Annie Hall
BY Ethan Alter

Domo Arigato, Motherfuckers!
How Styx Made a Rock Geek out of Me
BY Hayden Childs

My Favorite Flag
A Hitler Youth
BY Emerson Dameron

Old Heroes and Aging Icons
The Action Star in His Sunset Years
BY Kevin Fullam

Let It Slide
My Trombone Years
BY Steve Hicken

Jake in a Box
Thackray Reconsidered
BY Andrew Hickey

I Wanna Be Your Joyce Davenport
Hill Street Blues Roll Call
BY Erika Jahneke

The Spirit of Radio: WNEW and Me
With Apologies to Geddy Lee and No Apologies to Anyone Else
BY John James

An Elegant Trap
Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
BY Gary Mairs

The Old Unreliable
A Kindly Contemplation of P.G. Wodehouse
BY David Nordstrom

Still Not Ready for Prime Time
Saturday Night’s Early Years
BY Phil Nugent

Waiting for Someone or Something to Show You the Way
How a quinseptuagenuple-platinum art-rock band helped turn me on to the funk
BY Nate Patrin

The Counterweight
Thomas Pynchon’s Rebel Lit Rethought
BY Leonard Pierce

Rogue Islands
How I Broke My Brain at an Early Age
BY Matthew Rossi

Back to the Basics
Danville Days
BY Andy Wilson

Evolution of a Cinephile
My Movie Life
BY George Wu




The Community of Now
In C
BY STEVE HICKEN

Orphans
Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
BY Jon Morris

The Sincerest Cynic
Randy Newman, great American songwriter?
BY Leonard Pierce



Skibber Bee Bye
The Extremes of Ron Rege Jr.
BY Chris Lanier

Aleksandar Zograf
The Interview
BY Chris Lanier




A Home in the Uncanny Valley
The Unreal Geography of Video Games
BY Nate Patrin




Come Into My Boudoir
Humphrey Bogart’s Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep
BY Leonard Pierce

The Bottom Shelf
Attack of the Arthouse Sci-Fi Movie
BY Scott Von Doviak




Battlestar
Galactica
BY Kevin Fullam

Medium Cool
Newhart & Rockford
BY Phil Nugent

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