Bruce Handy is the author of “ Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies ” (2025) and the picture book “ There Was a Shadow ” (2024), illustrated by Lisk Feng.
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In his fight against Black erasure, the Roots drummer, who has amassed two hundred thousand LPs (plus bags full of “Soul Train” VHS tapes), makes his directorial début with “Summer of Soul,” about the mostly forgotten series of concerts in Harlem, in 1969, Bruce Handy writes.
Stranger than fiction! One of Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers represented a man who, in 1993, kidnapped another Harvey Weinstein and kept him captive for twelve days in a pit next to the West Side Highway, Bruce Handy writes.
How could Charles Manson and David Cassidy die within two days of each other? It’s as if fate were trying to erase my childhood.