With the only remaining Monkee, Micky Dolenz, back on the road in 2026, it's worth remembering that “Head” is a terrific movie. Too bad it messed too much with the audiences’ — and the band’s — heads.
The Voice's Albany reporter — who, according to at least one reader, should have been beatified — weighed in on the shame of not having pissed off a thin-skinned and vindictive president enough to be officially targeted for revenge.
“Covering the tour is … a peculiar, alien sensation, as if you were visiting a planet where the female population had been decimated by an unnamed plague.”
Whether following thrilling new sounds coming out of the South Bronx or teenagers gunning each other down in Detroit, Cooper was on the spot to report on — and analyze — major shifts in American culture.
“These transcontinental urban griots echo the despair, pain, and anger of the South Bronx and Harlem (the world's two major rap centers), which a lot of the cool-jerk white liberals and b.s. black bourgeoisie don't want to hear.”
In this remembrance of Jules Feiffer we reprint a 2018 interview with the Voice legend, who talked about the panoply of his characters that live on in film, on the stage, and in print and pixels.
