When I was in college, I studied broadcasting and film. As a result, we talked about, read about and saw many, many movies. One I had always heard about but had never seen is a film called The Thief and The Cobbler.
In many ways, the glam rock explosion of the early '70s was a “rage against the fading of the light.” By that we’re referencing the “fading” of the ‘60s’ cultural Technicolor dream: the Beatles’ break-up, the Stones’ Altamont debacle, the Manson killings, the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison, and the general abandonment of the Age of Aquarius’ peacefully revolutionary spirit in exchange for