"In one weekend I saw 'On the Waterfront,' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Wild One' on TV.
When I left 30 minutes later, I popped "Little Wild One" in the disc player and drove around for a while, thinking, praying, trying to breathe.
"I'm a wild one," said Mr. Hunsaker, a former commuter airline pilot and Army veteran who said he had sown his share of wild oats.
I contrast "The Wild One," made in 1953, with a movie he made in 1995, the adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic "The Island of Dr. Moreau".
"Tell me I'm the wild one," he requests at one point; Say You Will makes the eyebrow-elevating proposition that he has impregnated a local woman who's "known for giving" into carrying the "Devil's child".
Having encountered a Croots bag in the wild one time, I knew I had to include this long-time waxed canvas player in the roundup.
The signature songs came first – The Passenger, Lust For Life, Real Wild Child (Wild One), I Wanna Be Your Dog – but later Pop slowed the set down, even resting on a chair.
Step one was: where are we going to find the Northwest United States, the wild one I read about in stories and saw in paintings?
As the ride ahead promises to be a wild one, I would hope we find the intestinal fortitude to challenge our legislators and leaders in the financial sector to enact and adopt the kind of reforms that will restore faith in the markets and banking system and serve the public good.
I tend to be the wild one.
I keep playing this video of "Wild One," by Those Darlins, a band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
