Despite the cool title this is strange and ultimately stupid film.
The MacGuffin surrounds an energy producing meteorite which we see coming to earth in 19th Century Greenland at the start.
In the present day, white-haired Richard Harris is the enigmatic chief baddie of a secretive organisation which is planning to harness this power as a first step to world domination. Continue reading
Part of an irregular series of bite-sized posts about 7″ singles I own – shameless nostalgia from the days of vinyl. (Search ‘Backtracking’ to collect the set!)
“Like a pizza in the rain – nobody wants to take you home”, sang David Byrne on Rei Momo’s “Loco de Amor” (Crazy for Love). What is true of pizzas is doubly true of cakes, particularly those with sweet green icing that take a long time to bake.
Jimmy Webb’s bonkers lyrics to MacArthur park had no takers until drinking buddy Richard Harris, in the days before Dumbledore, took a shine to them. The fact that he couldn’t really sing was not seen as a hindrance. Continue reading
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