Apex Mountain
Dropkick Murphys; Van Morrison's live 'Comfortably Numb'; Kevin Corrigan as cop-magnet cousin
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- Leo has a case, with this and Blood Diamond in the same year and merging critical acclaim with blockbusters (Shutter Island, Wolf of Wall Street).
- Matt Damon, no; Scorsese, no, although a case was made for a career apex.
- The Dropkick Murphys are a yes: Papelbon used "Shipping Up to Boston" as entrance music and it became the Red Sox song; the Bosstones missed with "The Impression That I Get".
- Jack Nicholson, no; Mark Wahlberg, no.
- "Comfortably Numb" as a song had bigger moments on its original release, but this Van Morrison live-album version is a yes.
- After not knowing "Comfortably Numb", quizzed to name a Pink Floyd song and answers The Wall. — Craig Horlbeck
- Combat Zone porn theaters are raised, but the area had been cleaned up years before 2006, making them an anachronism; memories of the Combat Zone and a porn theater near the Boston Garden.
- Alec Baldwin, no (30 Rock); Southie and extended Boston, no, done better; Vera, no (Conjuring, Up in the Air).
- Kevin Corrigan is the apex mountain of being a cop-magnet cousin; the back porch view recalls Charlestown.
- The "Thief's Theme" drive is called a rare great Scorsese hip-hop moment that should have been put in Apex.