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This week’s issue of Tap In — the column in which Feverqueen’s senior associate editor Fraser Tharp offers his take on the internet’s most heated discourse about music, film and TV, now available in a handy newsletter format — is an ode to Out of timea visceral Denzel Washington thriller from 2003 in which one of the coolest movie stars on the planet lets us see him sweat it out. In this bring the team back with him Devil in a blue dress Director Carl Franklin, Denzel’s cop, is pursued by a detective, who is also his estranged wife, and whom he still loves, because she is Eva Mendes. “You’ll probably never see a scene of this at an awards show, but it’s the only Denzel Washington movie in which he leverages his movie star appeal to keep the audience on their toes for an upcoming movie,” Tharp wrote. Fax, maybe you should?”
Speaking of outdated communications technologies: Let’s talk books! This week we spoke with Josh Brolin, the semi-retired former actor turned megastar Avengers/Sand dunes Movies, her heart-rending personal memoirs From under the truck (in stores as of last week) moves back and forth between true Hollywood stories and wild tales from Brolin’s pre-fame/pre-sobriety youth, including his stint with the Cito Rats, a Santa Barbara surf gang that seems to be made up entirely of men with names Unbelievable. (Roll call: “Foolish Mortal, Herb, Dead Ted, No Hand’s Dan, Bomber, Bohawk, Will Mo, T-Roll, the other JB, Twisty Mole, Mozz, Friend of Fat Chick, Hydro, Scott Doobie, T-Shaver, Hoxen, Walkie-Man, Chester the Mulster, Durbo, Galen, Hormuz, Car Ride Rick, Shark Bee, Razor Lips, and Fletcher, etc. Mention some of them.”)
In other book news that’s also news about men with cool titles: a 2023 Brooklyn Public Library exhibit celebrating the life and career of famed Brooklynite Sean “Jay-Z” Carter, now immortalized among hardcovers as Hoff bookis available in a special $2,000 “ultimate” edition and a special edition if you have to ask and can’t afford it in an engraved bronze shell, although you can get the regular edition for $120. Filled with exclusive photos (check them out here) and will make the Jay fan in your life sing “give it to me” – that beautiful, shiny, archival stuff. Bonus: If you’re shopping for a huge amount American gangs Fan, pair this book with Brolin’s book and you’ve just won the holiday.
Meanwhile: We’ve rounded up the 30 best games from 30 years of PlayStation history. Pulling Weeds columnist Chris Black has paid tribute to Will Colin Hart of legendary 90s indie band Olivia Tremor Control. Nami Nori, the temaki spot that Pharrell Williams loved so much that he became a partner, is opening a new location in Miami, Real pain Director Jesse Eisenberg still overthinks it all, a Camp Flog Gnaw photo gallery from Odd Future’s in-house photographer, Breck Stowell, about the iconic 2000s hip-hop crew in two books, and HBO’s Dune: Prophecy It keeps getting Sand dunes-Air.
