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"I graduated from fucking Yale!"
The jokes come thick and fast, the sprinklers rain down and Richie Finestra goes full Basil Fawlty as the show hits its stride – but will it last? ‘Welcome to American...
The Guardian 2016-03-07*This post contains spoiler information for Episode Five: ‘He In Racist Fire’.* We’re at the halfway point in Vinyl now, and things certainly look a lot rosier than they...
NME 2016-03-15From the Nasty Bits' lips (literally) to God and the writers' ears: It's always a great idea to place Jamie Vine at the center of the action. Juno Temple's ambitious A&R;...
Rollingstone 2016-04-11Who says drama has to be such a po-faced business? We would, normally. The tendency of many viewers and critics to conflate seriousness with self-seriousness is a worrisome...
Rollingstone 2016-03-07
The women come centre-stage this week, as HBO plays up the sexiness and the trashiness of their show that’s basically Dallas but with a bigger budget ‘You told all your favourite “Devon was a whore when I met her” stories – you served me up on a goddam platter’ Despite the title (He In Racist Fire),...
The Guardian 2016-03-14As the late great David Bowie himself once sang, "Don't lean on me, man." Would that Vinyl had listened: The show’s sixth episode — “Cyclone" — was also its weakest, the first where its tales of excess and ecstasy threatened to just fall apart completely. You can't blame Bobby Cannavale and Olivia Wilde, who seem to pour body and soul into every scene. But despite the...
Rollingstone 2016-03-21Well, that was fast. Last week we complained that none of the fun that Richie Finestra was having (or at least the fun we were having at his expense) had trickled down to the scenes involving his neglected wife Devon. And on this week’s installment — "Whispered Secrets" — she's doesn't seem to be enjoying herself any more or less than when we last left her. This week, though,...
Rollingstone 2016-02-29Even a record that's a start-to-finish stone classic has one or two standout tracks that sum up the whole blessed thing: your "Stairway to Heaven" or, say, your "Drunk in Love." And in the pilot episode of Vinyl, — the Martin Scorsese–directed, Mick Jagger–produced Seventies NYC rock drama from Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter — a pair of scenes distinguish themselves...
Rollingstone 2016-02-15Rock & roll is no joke to Richie Finestra, but don't let that stop you from laughing. At the beginning of Vinyl's second episode, the troubled record exec is still recovering from his New York Dolls–induced epiphany — or he's in the middle of a cocaine-induced breakdown, take your pick. We see him chopping and kicking along to Enter the Dragon in a rat-infested movie theater...
Rollingstone 2016-02-22TV series are long in the can by the time they hit our screens, but with Vinyl, you can’t help but think Scorsese’s tweaking things as we watch. Earlier episodes were so stuffed with indulgent nostalgic references that it became difficult to swallow. But now, as we edge towards the mid-way point in the series, all the eye-rolling bits have gone. Ol’ Marty’s refined things to...
NME 2016-03-08
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romance film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach. The story is a coming of age drama that documents a teenage girl's coming of age through a relationship with a dance instructor whom she encounters during the family's summer vacation.
Originally a low-budget film by a new studio and with no major stars (except Broadway legend Jerry Orbach in a supporting role), Dirty Dancing became a massive box office hit. As of 2009[update], it had earned over $214 million worldwide. It was the first film to sell more than a million copies on home video, and the Dirty Dancing soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles, including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", which won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Grammy Award for best duet. The film spawned a 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, as well as a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America, with plans to open on Broadway.
