Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
“I don’t know a single woman working in my field, or any creative field, or any field at all, who cannot relate to Milicent Patrick. It’s not just her story. It’s mine, too.” -Mallory O’Meara (from The Lady From the Black Lagoon, page 15) Back in the 1990’s my friend Hill and I managed to […]
“The global heritage of popular music is the product of 125 years of artistic and scientific innovation. It represents a constant quest for modernity, which must be endlessly renewed. This is the story of that quest; of the musicians, the generations that they delighted and divided, and the technology which captured their music in the […]
“They must have amused each other – so similar were they, yet so different. If not for their overlapping fascination with amplification and musical instruments, they might not have become friends.” -from The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port (page 34) For my fourteenth birthday my father drove me to a music store on […]
“So much has been written about Monty Python. There have been memoirs, diaries, books about the Pythons, books by the Pythons about other Pythons, articles about the books about the Pythons, countless interviews, autobiographies, documentaries…so many documentaries. I honestly think there are more hours of documentary about Python then there are hours of Python.” -Eric […]
“I hope this book feels like a Simpsons episode: fast-paced, full of quick scenes, and stuffed with hundreds of jokes, some of them funny. I’ve even structured it like a Simpsons script, which has four acts: setup, complication, resolution and coda.” -Mike Reiss (from Springfield Confidential, page 7) In the mid-2000’s I was employed as […]
“Whether by choice or natural causes, more rock legends will be lost in the years ahead, until there are finally none of them left. When that happens, will there be a new generation of disciples who take up the cause for classic rock and carry it forward? Or is classic rock itself now a problematic […]
“The editor from Esquire called and asked ‘Who’s the new bitch?’ And my name was added as a contributing editor on the masthead, where, among those guys, I was the only girl.” -Robin Green (from The Only Girl, pages 60-61) I have an octogenarian friend; a retired University professor who in the 60’s and 70’s […]
“Human behaviour remains a mystery to me.” -Anthony Bourdain (from Kitchen Confidential: Insider’s Edition, page 362) A few years back I was tagged to sell books at Place des Arts for a show featuring an enigmatic author, chef and TV presenter billed as “Guts & Glory: An Evening with Anthony Bourdain.” So I packed up […]
“…Star Wars has always been a welcoming, comforting presence. It is the great equalizer in a sense. Whether or not one would admit it to you is one thing, but unless they were a feral child, there is a 99.9 percent chance that every man, woman, and child alive today has made a lightsaber noise […]
“Part of the reason the movie business was struggling throughout the 2010’s was its leaders couldn’t adjust to the fact that they were no longer the center of the pop-culture universe, around which all other media orbited. Movies still had an important place, of course, but they no longer had the first and foremost claim […]