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Autumn 2012 Mixtape:

Alan Hawkshaw “Blue Note”

Barry Devorzon “Jelinda’s Theme”

Bill Summers “Brazilian Skies”

Bob James “Angela (Theme from Taxi)”

Bobby Lyle “Night Breeze”

Crown Heights Affair “Dreaming A Dream”

Doobie Brothers “Echoes Of Love”

Duncan Lamont “Punch Drunk”

Eddie Henderson “Beyond Forever”

Eddie Henderson “Galaxy”

Eddie Henderson “Involuntary Bliss”

George Benson “Erotic Moods”

Heatwave “Leavin’ For a Dream”

Heatwave “Star Of The Story”

Joe Beck & David Sanborn “Texas Ann”

Jon Lucien “A Sunny Day”

Lonnie Liston Smith “Goddess Of Love”

Mike Manieri “Love Play”

Players’ Association, The “Moon In Pisces”

Players’ Association, The “Turn The Music Up”

Richie Cole “New York Afternoon”

Rufus & Chaka Khan “Sweet Thing”

Rufus & Chaka Khan “Your Smile”

Shuggie Otis “Island Letter”

Shuggie Otis “Pling!”

Shuggie Otis “Sparkle City”

Stuff “And Here You Are”

Stuff “Sun Song”

Sun “My Woman”

Undisputed Truth, The “Smiling Faces Sometimes”

A movie like The Warriors screams drive-in classic. Perhaps because it was due to my first experience with the film being at a drive in when I was a child. Although sporting all the trimmings of a b-movie feast, Walter Hill’s adaptation of Sol Yorick’s novel is a masterpiece of 70s grit. The oppressive atmosphere of the grimmy city, the unseemly gangs giving chase, and the overall pessimism…

Story:Xanadu ist ein Blick in die Zukunft und gleichzeitig eine liebenswerte Erinnerung an die Glanzzeiten Hollywoods. Das Musical glänzt mit den Hitsongs “Magic”, I’m Alive”, “All over the World”, “Suddenly” und dem Titelsong “Xanadu”. Olivia Newton-John, die Film-Göttin der 80er Jahre, begeistert dabei alle mit ihrer Schönheit und ihrer wundervollen Stimme, denn sie und Gene Kelly sind die…

[Originally published in Movietone News 24, July-August 1973]

That our final glimpse of John Dillinger should be out of focus is appropriate. Dillingerpromised to be an exciting directorial debut for John Milius—promised especially hard in the first quarter of an hour—and the role of Dillinger himself presented Warren Oates with the perfect opportunity to etch one of the great characterizations…