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https://thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2019/11/05/hotline-to-the-underground-by-joe-viglione/comment-page-1/ By Joe Viglione
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Hotline to the Underground ran in the 1970s in Musician’s Magazine and
in the 1980s in The Beat and Ron Bellanti’s Preview Magazine. The
popular column is back in the pages of Somerville News Weekly over forty
years later!
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Rick Berlin is back with a new song and video, “The Seven Eleven Cookbook Song” featuring his Nickel & Dime Band. Watch the split screen video of a fellow painting a picture as two fast food predators enter the late night “dining hall” while a dizzying area of things you probably shouldn’t eat are thrown into the stew. The critics are applauding it, reporter Curt Naihersey of It’s All About Arts” notes: “Really good & tasty on all accounts.” The song is catchy, the video dizzying! but lots of fun, and the band chugs away like a locomotive. Stomps along like a modernized”2-4-6-8 Motorway” by Tom Robinson Band only in a convenience store setting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar_saHB60qU
First caught Rick Berlin opening for Roxy Music at the Orpheum
Theater around 1974…he was amazing then and he is amazing now. And
speaking of legends, Peter Calo performs on the upcoming Bobby Hebb
boxed set produced by yours truly. He had to fly the parts in by e mail
because he was performing with Jimmy Webb on television the day of the
session. I call it from Hebb to Webb. He will be in town this Friday
with his “Four songwriters In The Round” featuring Peter Calo Jesse
Terry, Robinson Treacher and Cassidy
It is Friday November 8 Amazing Things Arts Center 160 Hollis St. (rte 126) Framingham, MA 01702
Tix available at : amazingthings.org Peter is Carly Simon’s music
director and has played with Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick, Willie
Nelson, Hall and Oates, Andrea Bocelli, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard
Bernstein…I just love to drop names…https://petercalo.com/
You may have heard of actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton
who were both amazing in Terminator 1 (1984) and Terminator 2 (1991.)
Arnold purportedly had only 58 words in the first flick and about 700 in
Terminator 2. He probably has something in between that in the new
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) and as far as the Terminator films go –
Rise of the Machines (2003,) Salvation (2009,) Genisys (2015) I put this
one as #3 on the list after 1 and 2, with Rise of the Machines coming
in at a close #4. Trying to distance itself from 3, 4, and 5 is kind of
humorous as The Rev-9 Terminator (Gabriel Luna) acts more like Scarlett
Johansson’s 2014 character Lucy who gets all gooey-black when she goes
from human to digital a la The Matrix. Rev 9 is a cross between Lucy and
Terminator Genisys digital fragmented pieces while elements of
Salvation and Terminator 3 are touched upon. Therein lies the problem.
It should have been a pure sequel to Terminator 2 but acts more like a
reboot – as one critic called it: Terminator – the Force Awakens. Still,
for those of us who have followed the franchise for 35 years – and this
is the 35th anniversary of the first film – we see great acting from
Hamilton and Arnold. It fits nicely with the first two but, honestly,
the more I think about it, I’ll have to tie it with Terminator 3, Rise
of the Machines.
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