Christopher Anderson
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Thanks, Avi, for pulling
Thanks, Avi, for pulling together this excellent week on corporate authorship and for making your own wonderful contribution with this piece. Can you say anything more about the Blackett-Sample-Hummert agency's "authoring strategies?" I ... -
It's a wonderful achievement
It's a wonderful achievement to elevate Hopalong Cassidy and the Cisco Kid from their second-class status in the American entertainment industries by pointing out their wild success in the global markets that developed after World War II. There wasn& ... -
Longing for the lost
Longing for the lost Lenore. I love Lugosi's reading of that line, especially as he echoes the actress's flat, American line reading, his delicious Hungarian accent transforming her dime novel sense of romance into something darker and more thea ... -
Were the documents in your
Were the documents in your slide show speaking directly to the consumers of recordings, or were they speaking to another audience-- say, to jobbers who might have sold these records to stores, or perhaps to retailers themselves? These questions are worth ... -
Several ideas come to mind
Several ideas come to mind in reading these thoughtful comments: In a week devoted to the theme of "corporate authorship," I'm struck, as always, by the delicious incongruities and casual dadaism that hide in plain sight within the flow of ...