Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Bob Dylan is 70 (2)

More views of - or after - Cambridge Film Festival 2011
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)



When I said previously that Dylan in Don't Look Back was 27, I meant 24.

The day after seeing it, I looked out David Hadju's positively 4th street, from which it seems most apt to quote from a letter dated 5 May that Joan Baez wrote to her sister Mimi from the Savoy Hotel:

Dearest Mimishka - I love you.

We're leaving Bobby's entourage. He has become so unbelievably unmanageable that I can't stand to be around him. Everyone traveling with him is going mad - He walks around in new clothes with a cane - Has tantrums, orders fish, gets drunk, plays his record, phones up America, asks if his concert tonight is sold out - stops all three limousines every morning to buy all the newspapers that might have his name in them. [...]


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