Tag Archives: Bad Lieutenant
Ace of Hearts
If Elvis was a white singer who adopted a black style, Johnny Ace was a black singer and piano player who started a sensation of his own by adopting the style of the white crooners he heard on the radio. Today we remember Ace’s birthday on June 9, 1929. By the mid-50′s popular music was [...]
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Tagged .22, .32, Back to the Future, Bad Lieutenant, Big Mama Thornton, Christine, Johnny Ace, Mean Streets, Memphis, Pledging My Love, Russian Roulette, Tennessee
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Kiss This
This scary October post recalls a subject many of you likely find terrifying: the career of Nicolas Cage. Cage has done a lot of cash cow trash since he won the Oscar for Leaving Lost Vegas. That said, he’s also brought the wild edge to films like Bad Lieutenant, reminding me of the strange brilliance [...]
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Tagged 1989, Bad Lieutenant, Leaving Lost Vegas, Nicolas Cage, October, Vampire's Kiss
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