Bob Dylan

Todd Haynes is, in this writer’s opinion, one of our greatest living filmmakers. Ever since his 1987 film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a moving examination of the singer’s battle with anorexia using Barbie dolls and created while he was at Bard College, his unique voice has enraptured audiences. Safe. Velvet Goldmine. Far From Heaven. Carol. The Velvet Underground. There are too many classics to mention. In his latest film, May December, Haynes has reunited with his muse Julianne Moore for their fifth…

Sixty years ago, Bob Dylan and his girlfriend Suze Rotolo stepped outside their West Village apartment, holding each other against the biting February cold. Standing in the snowy street beside a blue Volkswagen bus, they posed for a series of photographs. “Bob stuck his hands in the pockets of his jeans and leaned into me,” Rotolo recalled in her excellent 2008 memoir, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. “In some of the outtakes it is obvious that by then we were freezing; certainly Bob…

Who was the first person to wield the Force? It’s a concept so far away from the Star Wars stories we’ve been following, both in and out of canon for the past 40 years, it’s almost impossible to fathom. But soon, not only will someone fathom it, we’ll see how it happened on the big screen.Back in April, Lucasfilm announced that writer-director James Mangold is working on a film set in an era called the “Dawn of the Jedi.” But the idea isn’t that exactly. It’s about the first people to feel and use the Force. So not even…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)The font style used in the U.S. State Department is changing, prompting complaints from employees who find the change to be an inconvenience. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent an email to the state department, headlined “The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,” ala Bob Dylan, saying they will be changing the font for high-level internal documents to the larger sans-serif font, Calibri, from Times New Roman, which has been used for more than two decades.Blinken said the department’s…

“Everything’s too easy,” Dylan said of streaming music. “Just one stroke of the ring finger, middle finger, one little click, that’s all it takes.”Image: Kevin Winter (Getty Images)Music industry legend Bob Dylan has some opinions on the boom in streaming services over the last few years. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the singer-songwriter shared his belief that the industry’s pivot to streaming has made music “toothless.” Dylan said:Everything’s too easy. Just one stroke of the ring finger, middle finger,…

Photo: Fred Tanneau (Getty Images)Americana legend and 10-time Grammy award winner Bob Dylan, who famously couldn’t be bothered to issue a statement after becoming the first musician to win a Nobel prize, issued an exceptionally rare apology this week for using a machine to automatically duplicate his signature. The machine-generated signatures appeared on limited purchases of Dylan’s new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song. Fans, according to CNN, reportedly forked over $599 to obtain one of 900 copies of the book which…