‘Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir’ Review: A Storyteller’s Storied Life Variety 3/1/2021
Novelist Amy Tan’s centrality to the history of Asian American representation in literature and on-screen cannot be overstated. And the late James Redford’s pleasant, sympathetic biographical documentary, “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir” is careful to avoid any such overstatement: It presents Tan’s fascinating life story from an intimate perspective, which is engaging and compelling on the level of personal reminiscence, but perhaps inevitably falls short in the broader assessment of her cultural impact. It’s an approach that seems to emanate from the subject herself: Whatever self-regard might be implied by the term “memoir” is swiftly dispelled by its “unintended” nature.
Velvet mornings and boots made for walkinâ: Nancy Sinatra retrospective revisits a singer with swagger
By Christopher Muther Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 10:00 a.m.
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They couldnât have been more different. The son of an oil worker, the daughter of a platinum-selling singer and movie star. His voice rumbled like the engine of an 18-wheeler echoing through a tunnel, hers was sweeter and airier than sponge cake. But the disparate coupling of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra ignited sonic sparks in the mid-1960s.
The now 80-year-old Sinatra has released a career-spanning retrospective called âStart Walkinâ 1965-1976â (Light in the Attic Records) that revisits the magic she created with, and without, Hazlewood. Itâs the beginning of a spate of reissues this year from the singer, who put out a prolific amount of material between 1966 to 1968. For those who dismissed Sinatra as li
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If you follow the history of music, particularly popular music, you know that certain years always recur in the conversation. 1936 marked the first of Robert Johnson’s legendary blues recordings, while 1956 marked the ascent of Elvis. You know that The Beatles did
Sullivan in 1964, Woodstock happened in 1969, and that The Sugarhill Gang recorded the first hip-hop song to hit the Top 40, “Rapper’s Delight,” in 1979. Those years and many others always swirl about the conversation, but one year is consistently overlooked. In retrospect, 1961 is hugely important, as it set the stage for the rest of the decade and for decades to come. Let’s turn back the clock to the year that Berry signed the girls from the Projects, two former school friends met up again, Patsy went pop from the hospital, and four lads played the Cavern Club for the first time.
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