Still great

One movie, two albums that are still as good as I thought they were: Moulin Rouge, Lou Reed’s New York, and U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind.

One of the odder, perhaps more disturbing things about Sweet Lou’s portrait of New York from about 1987 is that while he dared to go topical, most of those he went topical about are still around: Giuliani, Jesse Jackson, the Pope. Well, there was that reference to “Iron Mike Tyson” that probably referred more to his strength than to the material from which the bars he needs to be kept behind are formed . . . .