Wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bom-bom! Little Richard screams, wails and whoops his way through this juke-box-jam of a debut album. Rolling Stone’s Ranking: #50/100 My Rating: I have no idea
Tag: 1950s
Top 100 Movie Review: #12 – Sunset Blvd. (1950)
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” American Film Institute Ranking: #12/100 Academy Awards: Nominated for eleven, won three including best original screenplay but none
The Top 100 Book Review: A Death in the Family – James Agee (1957)
Beautiful Writing, Tepid Story “We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to
Top 100 Book Review: Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin (1953)
Electric Writing and Powerful Characters “There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to
