In honor of my tenth anniversary at the ABA Journal, I’ve compiled a list of my law and pop culture features:
movies
Oftentimes, legal battles in the music industry are strictly business and not personal.
For Irene Cara, however, it certainly felt pretty personal.
Numismatics have long been an important trope in pop culture. Here are some of the more notable examples.
How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.
It’s been said that great art comes out of great suffering or adversity. That wasn’t the case for Metallica’s “St. Anger.”
For a band that always loomed larger than life, “Celebration Day” was a fairly restrained and modest effort.
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Guido Contini is a legendary and groundbreaking Italian director who has grand plans for an epic film about his beloved homeland. The only problem is he doesn’t have a script. So, he does what any good director would do. He builds grand sets, commissions fancy costumes, runs up a huge budget, and casts big-name stars. Script? Who needs a script? The movie will write itself.
Unfortunately, in the case of “Nine,” the latest film from director Rob Marshall, life imitated art a little too well.
My latest feature examines sleazy, incompetent, and ethically-challenged lawyers in pop culture.
Should “The Devil’s Advocate” have made this month’s ABA Journal list of “The 25 Greatest Legal Movies” of all time? I think so…
Elizabeth Taylor. Billy Graham. Fidel Castro. What do they have in common? In this context, they’re among the most popular picks in death pools.