Not that Lou Reed would have recognized me (though I was introduced to him once, which I'll get to), but he and his body of work intersected my life in more personal ways than that of any other major rock star. So this isn't an obituary so much as a series of memories. For obituaries, check out Gary Graff in Billboard and Jon Dolan in Rolling Stone.
Lou was from Long Island and I was from Long Island. At the most basic level, this meant that, growing up listening to Long Island radio stations, I heard lots of Lou even when he was no longer especially fashionable (between about 1976 and 1981). Thus, while most of the world ignored his 1978 album Street Hassle, I heard much of it on Wlir and Wbab, and bought it – my first Lou album. He had started out underground in the Velvet Underground, had managed to claw...
Lou was from Long Island and I was from Long Island. At the most basic level, this meant that, growing up listening to Long Island radio stations, I heard lots of Lou even when he was no longer especially fashionable (between about 1976 and 1981). Thus, while most of the world ignored his 1978 album Street Hassle, I heard much of it on Wlir and Wbab, and bought it – my first Lou album. He had started out underground in the Velvet Underground, had managed to claw...
- 10/28/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
In the R-rated comedy Don Jon, opening Sept. 27, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a twentysomething New Jersey gym rat and self-styled ladies’ man whose ability to maintain normal relationships with women is hampered by his obsession with online porn. While his girlfriend, played by Scarlett Johansson, swoons for the fantasies on display in Hollywood romantic comedies, Jon (Gordon-Levitt) wonders how the flesh-and-blood women he meets can ever measure up to the virtual vixens on his computer screen. If this sounds like pretty racy subject matter for a mainstream movie—well, it is. But Gordon-Levitt, who wrote and directed Don Jon, says he...
- 9/26/2013
- by Josh Rottenberg
- EW - Inside Movies
Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock has left the company along with three other executives following its latest board shake-up. Bostock, who has seen the Us web portal fall further behind competitors such as Google during his tenure, will step aside with Vyomesh Joshi, Arthur Kern and Gary Wilson in tow. Yahoo has been forced to lay off workers four times in the last five years, with share price stagnating around the $$15 (£9.50) mark since late 2008. It has also seen four bosses come and go during this period. PayPal head Scott Thompson took the reins at Yahoo early last month, filling the vacancy left by the outed Carol Bartz. Co-founder Jerry Yang also stepped down (more)...
- 2/8/2012
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
The transformation of Yahoo continued on Tuesday when chairman Roy Bostock revealed in a letter to shareholders that he would not be standing for reelection, nor would three other board members. Yahoo also said it has elected two new board members: Maynard Webb, Jr., a former CEO of LiveOps and before that COO of eBay; and Alfred Amoroso, a former CEO of Rovi Corp. and of Meta Group. Also quitting the board are Vyomesh Joshi, a Hewlett-Packard executive; Arthur Kern, a private investor; and Gary Wilson, a general partner at Manhattan Pacific Partners. The moves announced Tuesday follow the
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- 2/8/2012
- by Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The exodus of Yahoo's old guard continued on Tuesday, as four of the embattled search engine's board members, including Chairman Roy Bostock, announced they are stepping down. Their exits are part of a larger effort to “accelerate the company’s transformation,” according to a letter written by Bostock and released by the company. Bostock, Vyomesh Joshi, Gary Wilson and Arthur Kern will all decline to stand for re-election at the next shareholders’ meeting. Also read: Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Resigns The move comes just weeks after Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down from the company's board...
- 2/7/2012
- by Lucas Shaw & Brent Lang
- The Wrap
When Gary Wilson finally got to follow up his 1977 album You Think You Really Know Me with 2004’s Mary Had Brown Hair, he stuck with the collision of funk, noise, and teenage-freakout theatrics that made him a word-of-mouth idol in the first place. That’s still true on Electric Endicott (named for Wilson’s upstate New York hometown), though it clears up some of Mary’s distracting chintz with fuller arrangements, sax, and some piano. The older Wilson sings more smoothly and uses his avant-garde transitional tracks for swanky melody (“Kathy Kissed Me Last Night”) as well as ...
- 11/9/2010
- avclub.com
Imagine you are among the 10% of people left alive on the planet after the deadliest pandemic the world has ever seen. All of your family, friends, neighbors, everyone you knew, is dead. You have to figure out how to live in a world without them, modern conveniences and a government. That is the intriguing premise of BBC America's gripping new drama Survivors, which begins airing Saturday, February 13th. Tom (Max Beesley) and Prison guard Gary Wilson (Tim Dantay) Courtesy of BBC America The main story of Survivors centers on Abby (Julie Graham), her quest to find her son, Peter, and the other survivors she meets along the way and their banding together as a makeshift family.
- 2/11/2010
- by Tracey Brown
- Monsters and Critics
By Michael Atkinson
The DVD era has been very generous to low-grade biodocs focused on culty, semi-obscure pop wonders -- everyone from the Holy Moly Rounders to Roky Erickson, Benjamin Smoke, Townes Van Zandt, Gary Wilson, Joy Division, They Might Be Giants, Scott Walker, et cetera, have received their official, devotional, feature-length eulogy. Graveside homilies they are, too, there's little point in denying it -- for the aging musicians of the '60s, '70s and '80s as well as for our long-lost younger selves, now only faint traces of remembered élan, hope and indestructibility. Of course, Patti Smith, like Leonard Cohen and the Ramones (so nicely requiem-ed in 2003's "End of the Century"), is far from little known, but she still occupies that musty corner of pop legend-dom: more admired than listened to, known for her history more than her songs, aging into a kind of marginal retro-hipness...
The DVD era has been very generous to low-grade biodocs focused on culty, semi-obscure pop wonders -- everyone from the Holy Moly Rounders to Roky Erickson, Benjamin Smoke, Townes Van Zandt, Gary Wilson, Joy Division, They Might Be Giants, Scott Walker, et cetera, have received their official, devotional, feature-length eulogy. Graveside homilies they are, too, there's little point in denying it -- for the aging musicians of the '60s, '70s and '80s as well as for our long-lost younger selves, now only faint traces of remembered élan, hope and indestructibility. Of course, Patti Smith, like Leonard Cohen and the Ramones (so nicely requiem-ed in 2003's "End of the Century"), is far from little known, but she still occupies that musty corner of pop legend-dom: more admired than listened to, known for her history more than her songs, aging into a kind of marginal retro-hipness...
- 1/27/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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