Talking Heads' Byrne Chats Up His Movie
Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 October 1986
THE LAST TIME we saw David Byrne on the big screen, he was herky-jerking his way through a Talking Heads concert, doing his chaotic, turkey-necked, ants-in-the-pants dancing, sometimes in his white Big Suit, and one time with a floor lamp. The film was called Stop Making Sense.
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