By Andrew Dunbar In the twilight of the most harrowing year in recent memory, Paul McCartney chose to release the third and likely final installment in his self
Mick LaSalle February 1, 2021Updated: February 1, 2021, 9:40 am
Stanley Tucci is not a movie critic for The Chronicle. Photo: Jim Cooper, Associated Press
Dear Mr. Mick: How do you juggle two high-powered careers as The Chronicle movie critic we love, and as Stanley Tucci, movie actor, cook and author?
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Dear Mr. James: In the late 1980s, I saw Stanley Tucci in a movie for the first time, and I got a very bad feeling. He was about my size and coloring, my ethnicity, and he was already pretty bald. At this point, I
wasn’t, although that delightful process had started. Right then, I thought, “Oh no. If this guy becomes famous, and I really do go bald, people are going to tell me I look like him.” I dreaded this, and about 10 years later, it all came to pass.
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Jan. 10, 2021
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Third time s the charm from old charmer Sir Paul
Third time s the charm from old charmer Sir Paul
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When he finds himself in times of trouble, Beatle Paul self-isolates.
McCartney, his DIY debut, was launched like a solo escape pod as his first band imploded in a fiery ball in 1970.
McCartney II whisked him from the wreckage of Wings in 1980, a debacle hastened by his Tokyo prison stint for cannabis possession.
Now, with pleasing numerology,
McCartney III carries him through the deadly COVID-19 scare of 2020. As on the others, he plays and produces everything here with a gleeful mix of fatalism and spontaneity: the pop-genius equivalent of chucking his cards in the air to see how they land.
Originally published on December 21, 2020 8:04 am
Back in 1970, as the book was closing on The Beatles time together, Paul McCartney came out with a release that established him as an artist in his own right and a versatile one, who played every instrument on the album simply titled
McCartney. In 1980, he followed it up with
McCartney II another kind of do-it-yourself solo album, released as another band of his, Wings, was breaking up. Now, after another 40 years, the artist has been quite busy in quarantine. I was very lucky to be able to come to my studio and make some music, which took the edge off the whole quarantine thing. I would write a song, then I d come in and record it or I d say, Wait a minute, what about that song I started last year but never got round to finishing? So there was no worry attached, he says. If you re making an album, what you might call a proper album, you re concentrating on making sure it s right. And this project, I wasn t concentr