Led Zep Looks Back

An Interview with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and J.P. Jones, circa 1990

I heard "Tangerine" on the radio the other day. It's a very acoustic cut from Led Zeppelin III. A few years ago, I spoke via video to the class of a colleague at Emerson College in Boston. One of the students was named Tangerine. She was from L.A., and said she was named after the song.

Such is the lasting effect of Led Zeppelin. There's a new movie, Becoming Led Zeppelin. True believers might want to see it in IMAX. I don't know if it's the movie in which Timothée Chalamet does a "Robert Downey" or "Peter Sellers" and plays Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant, and John-Paul Jones, while Garma Mecha-man plays John Bonham. Have you heard that Robert De Niro is in a mob movie coming out March 21 called The Alto Knights? Better title: "De Niro 2025 Gangster Movie." In it, he plays both lead characters, 1950s New York mafia kingpins Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. Billy Crystal does not play the psychiatrist for either, or both, which would be "Analyze Another Thing" after the actual De Niro/Cr…