off Pattie Boyd. “Behind the Lens” presented a unique live blend of music and visuals at the Kravis Center’s Persson Hall on April 13, with the featured attraction the narration and photographs of Henry Diltz and Pattie Boyd. The 77-year-old Diltz has more than 400 album cover shots for iconic artists, and the tales to go with them, while the 72-year-old Boyd mainly … [Read more...]
Arts buzz: Photos by a rock muse, at the Kravis; Norton plans Holocaust remembrance
Pattie Boyd and George Harrison. Even before the rock video era started in the 1980s, the visual element has often been as important as sound in popular music. In the multi-media presentation Behind the Lens, two architects of this blend through the 1960s and 1970s, Pattie Boyd and Henry Diltz, share their stories and images in a tell-all slide show. Boyd inspired husbands … [Read more...]
‘Top Five’ leaves room amid chaotic comedy for wisdom
Chris Rock’s Top Five isn’t one of the best movies of the year, but it’s undoubtedly the coolest. It’s the movie I’d most want to hang out with, as a fly on the wall of its hyper-realistically detailed locations: under the unforgiving lights of a comedy club, in the nihilistic privacy of a luxury hotel, in the Cristal-popping velvet booths of a strip club — even in a jail … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘Full Monty,’ ‘Fighting Over Beverley,’ ‘Rags,’ and ‘Sister Act’
In 1968, Broadway was aghast (and titillated) when a tribe of hippies went naked in Hair. Thirty-two years later, a handful of unemployed steel workers strip down to nothing onstage in The Full Monty and it is practically family entertainment. OK, I guess it depends on the family, but if you have a taste for untoned, scrawny, fat or aging bodies, then The Wick Theatre has the … [Read more...]
Joan Jett fires up Hard Rock crowd
By Kylie Phillips Many sons were embarrassed by their mothers’ attempts at rock ‘n’roll war cries last Wednesday night (March 20) as Joan Jett and The Blackhearts took fans at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood back to an era of rock in which leopard vests and red-stitched leather pants were everyday wear. With eight platinum and gold records and nine Top 40 hits, Jett was not … [Read more...]
Flutist Anderson to perform iconic ‘Thick as a Brick’ at Kravis
Add to the list of Woodstock-era rockers who are still performing live in concert at Social Security age the name of Ian Anderson, who brought the flute to rock music through his high-concept former band, Jethro Tull. Forty years ago, he had an international hit with the progressive rock album Thick as a Brick, which he wrote with lyrics credited to a fictional 10-year-old … [Read more...]
Allmans cook up blues-rock perfection at Seminole Hard Rock
The night belonged to Gregg Allman. He sits at his Hammond B-3 as if he's riding a chopped Harley, sometimes hunched over the keyboard as if he's looking for cops, sometimes laid so far back his foot barely reaches the pedal. On Melissa, he took a turn on acoustic guitar. But what really set the night apart was Gregg's vocals, an emphatic punctuation to the penultimate … [Read more...]
Mosaic’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ a heady evening of Stoppard
Over 40 years ago, Czech-born journalist-turned-playwright Tom Stoppard burst onto the world stage with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, his hommage to Samuel Beckett and the emptiness and impotence of his characters. Ever since, however, Stoppard has been stuffing his plays with heady ideas and dialectical notions, moving from nothingness to cerebral overload. He … [Read more...]