To honor the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather,” Paramount Pictures is re-releasing a restored version of the movie to a limited number of AMC theaters on Feb. 25th....
On Gosman’s dock in Montauk, seagulls hovering above, I was greeted by the smells of gasoline and fish as I walked on the worn, white-speckled planks....
Martin Scorsese begins “Goodfellas” in medias res, with Henry (Ray Liotta), Jimmy (Robert DeNiro), and Tommy (Joe Pesci) driving upstate in the middle of the night....
Terry Jones, one of the founding members of the comedy troupe Monty Python, died after a five year battle with dementia. Though I knew the 77-year-old British comedian was slipping away, I was still deeply saddened by his death....
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reconvened in the summer of 1969 at London’s EMI Studios to sagaciously and ambitiously craft what became Abbey Road, the last album The Beatles recorded together....
The Beatles’ famous, impromptu Savile Row rooftop concert on Jan. 30, 1969, drew me to London to pay homage to the group’s last performance and caused me to recall my own rooftop experience with the comedy troupe The Gramcrackers....
I used to talk about the ’60s with Mrs. Davidson, the school librarian, when I was in seventh grade. She was a first generation Beatles fan and when she said she’d lend me some of her old records, the first thing I asked for was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was the band’s eighth studio album, released on June 1 1967, a half-century ago this year. It soared up the charts back then, spending 27 weeks at the No. 1 in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at No. 1 in the United States....
Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature came up while I was spending the weekend with my friends in Montauk. I was pleasantly surprised when the five of them, despite having varying degrees of musical taste, unanimously agreed that Bob Dylan is a great songwriter. He’s an American master, I said....
Matt Kindelmann has taught high school English and Creative Writing for the past twenty years in Brooklyn and on Long Island. He has freelanced many articles and wrote a column called The Road Less Traveled" for the Smithtown News, for which he placed first in the Best Column category for the New York Press Association Better Newspaper Contest in 2014.
