The Man Who Would Not See

After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner (Stacy Keach) is taken to "The Farm", a bizarre insane asylum run by Doctor D (James Earl Jones). After being "cured", Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer at a nearby college and begins a disastrous affair with the wife of a colleague. This is a niche art house film with a strong anti-establishment sensibility. End of the Road resonated with fans of the counter-culture movement and was viewed as shocking, powerful and controversial at the time of its release.

"Masterpiece" is a 1973 album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label, produced and written by Norman Whitfield. The title refers to the album being not the group's intended masterpiece, but Norman Whitfield's. Having already produced songs for the Temptations such as "Smiling Faces Sometimes" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" which emphasized his instrumental tracks over the group's vocals, Whitfield goes one step further here. Despite the criticism directed towards the LP, "Masterpiece" became a #1 hit on the Billboard R&B singles chart, and a #7 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Its follow-up, the "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"-like "Plastic Man", hit #40 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)" also became a Top 40 hit in the late summer/early fall of 1973. "Law of the Land" was released as a UK-only single by Tamla Motown, and just missed out on the UK Top 40, peaking at #41 in late 1973.

Ron Carter and Danny Simmons announce The Brown Beatnik Tomes - Live at BRIC House, a new album to be released on June 7. On the bass: Ron Carter (who will turn 82 next week) not only played in Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet but, with well over 2,200 sessions to his name, is the Guinness-certified most-recorded jazz bassist in history. And on the words: Danny Simmons, a Tony-winning cofounder of Def Poetry Jam, not to mention a novelist, poet, gallerist, and neo-African abstract expressionist whose paintings have appeared in the Smithsonian and the United Nations HQ.