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"The Ballad of Toshi" – On women gazing at men in biopics

Ruben Bolling
Dec 31, 2024
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After resisting mightily, I was finally pressured into seeing the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown with my family. After the movie, my twelve-year-old niece said that her two favorite characters were (1) a woman in the front row of Dylan's "electric" performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival dancin…

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