 By Roy Trakin Adapting books to movies is always a tricky proposition,
and it's too often that something that works so well on the printed page when
brought to life on screen turns out to be a disappointment. |
 By Roy Trakin "I've been tortured and scorned/Since the day that I was
born," cries out Courtney Love on
her upcoming album Nobody's Daughter,
returning to her Hole incarnation
with a whole new line-up built around 23-year-old hot-shot U.K. guitarist Mikko Larkin. |
(100110010448)runaways_2.jpg) By Roy Trakin The
opening shot in the new biopic The
Runaways is of Dakota Fanning's Cherie
Currie just as she experiences her first period, the blood slowly
running down her leg. |
 By Roy Trakin What's Nav'i for getting the shit kicked out of you by
your ex-wife? Like a great horse
race, Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker caught and passed James Cameron's Avatar in the final turn winning six
award... |
 By Roy Trakin 1. Live from Daryl's House ( www.lfdh.com): The death of
Daryl Hall and John Oates' longtime musical director T-Bone Wolk this week from a heart attack at the age of 58 was particularly shocking... |
 By Roy Trakin If all you thought about
Sweden was hot
blondes, hunky trainers named Sven, ABBA and a chess match with Death, then
the classic-rock purveyed by the country's The Soundtrack of Our Lives might seem
an anomaly. |
 By Roy Trakin Most of maverick white-haired indie film icon Jim Jarmusch's movies since his
groundbreaking 1984 feature Stranger Than
Paradise have involved a main character's odyssey as a stranger in a strange
land, and his latest, The Limits of
Control, fits neatly into that oeuvre. |
 By Roy Trakin Even without her old man's guidance, my daughter Tara discovered classic, ‘70s British
punk, and while in high school, her bedroom walls were covered with posters of
the Clash and, interestingly enough,
Sid Vicious. |
