How many roads must a man walk down before his life gets turned into a deluge of movies and TV series? In an ideal world, every simple twist of Bob Dylan’s momentous life would have yielded some sort of screen adaptation by now, rendering Star Wars a cottage industry by comparison.
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG
By Bob Dylan
Simon & Schuster, $45 list; or $22.50 at Target and on Amazon at review date.
The new Bob Dylan book looks great and smells better.
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE
A Memoir
By Jann S. Wenner
Little, Brown & Co. $35 list; $17.50 at Target and on Amazon at review date.
Bob Dylan helped solve a daring bank heist in 1973. Is there anything this man can’t do?
Dylan’s hitherto unheralded feat occurred in Hawaii, although he didn’t need to set foot in the Aloha State.
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I went to a bunch of Storytellers tapings during my career. Tom Petty, Kanye West and the Doors spring to mind. But perhaps the most fun was the Foo Fighters one (hey, that rhymes!)
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