Talking Heads — and ’70s N.Y. music scene — deserve better than ‘Burning Down the House’

Fans are aware that three out of four members of the Heads initially crossed paths as students at Rhode Island School of Design in the 70’s, a group of privileged individuals with dreams in art and a lack of clear direction. David Byrne hailed from Baltimore, having dabbled in conceptualist photography and previously played in unremarkable cover bands. It was drummer Chris Frantz who persuaded Byrne to join one such band; Tina Weymouth, Frantz’s girlfriend and the daughter of a highly decorated Navy vice admiral, handled bass duties. They were an unusual band that favored innovation over jamming sessions; their first decent composition evolved into “Psycho Killer,” with Weymouth adding the French recitative in the song’s bridge.

In ‘The Waterfront,’ ‘Dawson’s Creek’ creator Kevin Williamson returns to his gritty roots

With a pen as his tool, he wrote sequels for “Jaws”, “The Towering Inferno”, and an imagined series for “The Six Million Dollar Man”. By the point when he reached high school in Pamlico County, N.C., Williamson’s written stories were causing him issues. One particularly grisly story about a date rape and a quarterback who lost his arm earned Williamson a visit to the counselor’s office.