Barbara Holdridge, who co-founded the first commercially successful spoken-word record label, one that began with the poet Dylan Thomas reciting his story “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” and that led to today’s multibillion-dollar audiobook industry, died on Monday at home in Baltimore, Md. She was 95. Her daughter, Eleanor Holdridge, …
The James Mangold film “A Complete Unknown” entered theaters on Christmas Day as the first, or at least the most straightforward, biopic ever made about one of American pop culture’s most enduring yet perplexing figures: Bob Dylan, played by Timothée Chalamet. The movie traces the dramatic early years of Dylan’s …
The concert stage-to-Hollywood highway has been wide and inviting for decades. Everyone from Elvis and the Beatles to Madonna and Taylor Swift has journeyed down that road. But there’s something unique about Bob Dylan’s big-screen presence. He is Dylan the troubadour, Dylan the documentary subject, Dylan the car commercial star, …