There’s a troubling moment in “MacArthur Park” where someone leaves a cake out in the rain and the singer laments he’ll never again have the recipe. Jimmy Webb’s 1968 epic, originally recorded by Richard Harris, has found a new life in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 film. The cake tragedy from Webb’s […]
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