Karl THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND STARTS EARLY:
…with THE SWEET! The bubble-glam rockers are probably best known for the trifecta of "Little Willy," "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox on the Run," though they also charted with the harder-edged "Action" and the more ballad-y "Love is Like Oxygen." All of those clips also feature the band's rather unique fashion sense, but you have to see the clip for "Wig Wam Bam" — complete with headdress — to see the band at its most ridiculous. BONUS: "All That Glitters" is a BBC documentary originally broadcast in February 1974 charting a day in the life of The Sweet.
THE QUEEN OF SOUL: World Cafe essays Aretha Live at Fillmore West.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK, on collapse, polka dots, and more.
WESTSIDE COWBOY shares “Kick Stones (The Boys).”
LENNY KAYE shares "Solstice."
DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS shares "My Life In England, Pt 1."
DENT MAY shares "The Big One."
SWEEPING PROMISES shares "Shooting Shadows."
JOHANNA SAMUELS shares "Circles."
MILLY ALCOCK, on learning to ignore the trolls and go for Supergirl.
MILES TELLER did not take being called a dick lightly.
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE probably scared some folks with this drone show. And the final trailer is online.
THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU: Barely Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch. It's still tracking for an 80MM opening weekend.
DAMON LINDELOF, on his aborted Star Wars project.
THE THR COMEDY ACTORS' ROUNDTABLE, on delusional auditions, nagging insecurities and bizarre fan interactions.
THE ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH: The sequel to Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," will debut on Imax screens before landing on Netflix.
SPEED RACER: Emile Hirsch on the unlikely cult classic.
JAMES ELLROY Says You Have the Hollywood Blacklist All Wrong.
MEMORIAL DAY has become — in the minds of some — a day devoted to uncovering their swimming pools and barbeques. So take a moment (preferably at 3 p.m. local time) to remember what it's really about.You can read about "The Meaning of Memorial Day" with selections from American authors and statesmen, including Herman Melville, Ernie Pyle, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Joyce Johnson and the "Arlington Ladies" who attend every funeral in Arlington National Cemetery, to ensure no soldier is buried alone, take more than a moment. Re-read "A Death in the Family," as powerful as it was when Christopher Hitchens wrote it in 2007. Revisit William Wyler's footage of the last mission of the Memphis Belle, or check the Tube for Alfred Hitchcock's footage of the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp. The Wikipedia entry for Memorial Day notes a race track connection unrelated to the Indy 500. It's a good day — as good as we are likely to get — for Sgt. Barry Sadler's No. 1 smash, "Ballad of the Green Berets." or the movie adaptation of Gen. George S. Patton's "Speech to the Third Army." As "Greyhawk" once wrote at the Mudville Gazette, "This is Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy it. Celebrate it – the people who died to give you that right would appreciate it. But they didn't die peaceably in their beds, these dogs who fell protecting sheep from wolves.
KITTEN haz a nightmare.
A DONKEY sees donkeys in art.
CATS & DOGS, living together…
