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Letter to Guillermo

Dear Guillermo:
I’m really glad that you’ve gotten the plum directing gig in the known universe, and I hope you get a boodle of cash out of it (and if you want somewhere to spend it, my email’s in the profile). As a public service, and because you seem like a nice boy and all, [...]

Up on Coosa Creek, 2-7-2008

Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese’s new documentary on the Rolling Stones, opened the Berlin film festival this year. Although Scorsese has used the Stones’ music in numerous films over the years, this is the first time they’ve worked one-on-one, writes Michael Jones in Variety:
“Mick Jagger quipped that, ‘this is the only Scorsese movie that [...]