I got word a few days ago that a local cinema would be showing Rattle and Hum for five straight days this month. This is a theater known for cult classics and themed sing-a-longs so it didn’t surprise me they were playing it, but I was impressed it would be shown that many times (most [...]
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The Little Museum of Dublin announced last month it is creating a permanent exhibit of U2′s history and are looking for rare memorabilia for the collection. Last week museum curator Simon O’Connor told me they are primarily interested in pieces that help tell the story of the role Dublin has had in U2′s history, which probably rules out [...]
Broadway Spidey Saved By A “Team Turnaround”
In a new book on leadership skills, Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl discuss the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark as a case study in Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming Teams. Bono, Edge, and Julie Taymor’s work was just one of their case studies, the others being a NFL team, a university child-care center, a [...]
A New Book from Bill Carter
Bill Carter, author of Fools Rush In and Red Summer, returns this fall with a new book, Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal That Runs the World. This new non-fiction work will be released on Oct. 16 and is available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Carter will appear on CBS This Morning that [...]
Gatsby Gets “Blindness”
I just saw this trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the American literary classic The Great Gatsby, coming this Christmas. And yep, they are using Jack White’s cover of “Love is Blindness” from the Ahk-Toong-Bay-Bi CD (which comes right after a bit of Kanye West & Jay-Z’s “No Church in the Wild.”) A brilliant choice of a cover, [...]
U2 Music in The Lady
I was pleasantly surprised last night as I attended a press screening of The Lady, and counted multiple references to U2. The film chronicles the life of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her amazing marriage to her British husband in light of the separation she endured from her family during years of house [...]
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