Blondie

Coming-of-age movies have a bad reputation. Often dismissed as hackneyed Oscar bait, a lingering criticism despite the classic status of several releases that fit the mould. The likes of Little Miss Sunshine, Boyhood and Ferris Bueller’s…

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It’s 1976 and Blondie are travelling back from a recording in Rockefeller Centre Studios in New York City, with then unknown rock n roll photographer Bob Gruen in tow. On the corner of 6th Avenue and 50th Street they come across the wreck…