EFREM & EDDIE IN 77 SUNSET STRIP

before the cool of Johnny Depp.......Kookie (with Connie)

Kool Cat Eddie, Kookie Kookson, was my car hop role model for "with it-ness".......and way uptown Efrem Zimbalist was my role model for mature sophisticate when I was a Jr. High School social rebel........I never missed an episode of 77 SUNSET STRIP; and Eddie's lingo ["I'm jazzed. They're already twistin' in L.A.! Let's split, grab our steady foxes, bag some jacked up hunk o' junk with a suicide knob 'n' ditch this bean wagon in El Segundo with some candy ass with bread!..."] was all the thing with bohemian 50's teens..... I even began to carry a comb, even though my thin, flyaway hair was hardly on par with Eddie's........and I was already mastering the subjunctive, seeing no pop future with my do.

Metroland Perfidia, the frustrations of bourgeoise morality.......

An overlooked film in America, METROLAND is a masterful portrayal of the dynamics of fantasy and relationships; youth, seeking the worlds of their dreams, returning to their once-loathed programming and the pitiable reconciliation through conventional mediocrity. The ever-complex Emily Watson, staight-from-the-heart Elsa Zylberstein and enigmatically sly Lee Ross surround Christian Bale under the brilliant direction of the highly under-rated TV director, Philip Saville, seemingly guided by the ghosts of Ingmar Bergman and John Cassavetes in a modern-day interpretation of Flaubert's SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION and MADAME BOVARY.