Peter McAlevey

  • Is This a Wrap for Tarantino?

      Is this a wrap for Quentin Tarantino?   That may sound bizarre, given the bluster Harvey Weinstein was spewing last weekend, but let’s examine the facts. Everyone has been proclaiming that Tarantino’s new, WWII monstrosity, which opened to an “unheard-of" $37.6 million, his “biggest opening to date.”   But wait a minute —  …

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    Peter McAlevey

  • How Woodstock Saved Hollywood

      Everyone "knows" that the space program yielded Tang — not true — and the personal computer — true. (One could argue the Internet as well, but that’s another story.)   Few people imagine, however, that without the Woodstock Festival — which happened a mere three weeks after man landed on the moon (and was widely…

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    Peter McAlevey