Jon Levin

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The album is more AOR than college rock if that's the REM you are to. Monster was maybe the last rock album the band ever made. Given that they were going through a major transition without drummer Bill Berry, I thought it was a decent offering. 4.5 out of 5 stars. More noise and drum filler than music but still Michael Stipe's lyrics and the connection and ear the bandmates have for each other is organic and will apeal to the most REM fanbase.

This was probably the last best thing I saw either Nick Nolte or Barbara Streisand do. Unfortunately they have both kind of aged out of the game. Streisan is an icon, but Notle is too curmudgeonly to allow him to get away with what he does in old age. I thought his characterization as Bruce Banner's father in Ang Lee's Hulk was embarrassingly bad. In this film, Streisand and Nolte impress. I think the tears and love and the joy they portray feels real. And kudos to Bradley Copper for getting everyone else in Hollywood sober.