In May 1974, Gov. Jimmy Carter delivered a blistering Law Day address at the University of Georgia to a distinguished audience of lawyers and public officials, along with members of the press corps. Quietly preparing to run for the presidency two years hence, Carter decided to shake things up, forsaking …
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The biker has been such a constant figure of Hollywood fascination — the rebel, the outsider, the last American pioneer — that you might wonder what’s left to say about him. But Jeff Nichols‘ drama The Bikeriders, starring Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and Jodie Comer, strips away the mythology and …
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A dramatized reading of Hunter S. Thompson‘s The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent & Depraved will be pressed on vinyl for the first time, out July 15 via Shimmy-Disc/Paris Records. The reading of the essay — originally published in Scanlon’s Monthly in June 1970 — features Tim Robbins as Thompson and …
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