Cartoons Tuesday
A dozen or so hot shots, plus excerpts from new movies re: Leonard Cohen and Tom Petty.
And away we go. First up, sneak peeks at new doc about Leonard Cohen and “Hallelujah” and another focusing on Tom Petty and Wildflowers. Don’t forget to share or subscribe, if you haven’t, it’s still free. Bonus: full concert by Warren Zevon at peak, 1982.
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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His new film, Atomic Cover-up, has been featured at a dozen festivals this year and is winning awards. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.