Just to be clear, it's the Metropouloses' father who owned Pabst, and sold it a few years ago. (He's also the one who owns Hostess.) I'm guessing he's the one bankrolling this as well, rather than a 32 year old.

"which closed the curtain on The Monkees forever—at least until a 1986 MTV rerun marathon made Monkeemania start up all over again"

Have Aaron Eckhart play Sam Devereaux in Ludlum's Road books and we can talk, Universal.

Modesty Blaise is also a great mod revival song by Direct Hits.

I have no idea how British Leyland ties in, but I will fave any mention of that misbegotten entity.

Jimmy Bell's still in town, at least that's what the Numbers Band told me.

That was Frankenheimer's next film, actually.

The Yardbirds discography is a mess - not only because of differing US/UK releases, as the article mentioned, but because Gomelsky licensed everything he had to anyone who wanted it. That's why there are an infinite number of 'best ofs' and 'collections' on CD.

Hoo boy, I'd avoid Scorsese's New York, New York, set around the time this song was written, because that's all De Niro does at the start of the movie. It's remarkably creepy to a modern viewer.

This is how the Borg started

I put the blame on Whishaw's Richard II on the director. The entire film seemed like one exasperated sigh.

I saw it on VHS years ago and loved it.

Fun fact: I'm 95% certain that first newspaper clipping in the article is from a Milwaukee newspaper, because both dailies' near-full runs are available through Google's news archive.

Can't wait for the documentary and cover song of the 12 Oz Mouse intro.

Jones has complained that only half his drum kit was mic'd when they recorded Face Dances.

I saw this on a whim freshman year of college, and I'll never forget coming back to my dorm almost shaking from how amazing this film seemed to me. Hilarious, tragic, bittersweet, the movie was a dance with life itself.

Aside from repeated viewings of Charade, it has to be Cooks Tours, the only board game my mother would play. Spin a wheel, move around the board, answer trivia questions about Europe.

I'm going to refuse to believe this is true.

He also showed a decent sense of self-mockery in the ridiculous music video about himself: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It may not surprise you that Cage's chief of staff for several years was a guy who once ran the Beatles' Apple Records, Jack Oliver.