Essay Archive - Stuck in the Middle
Stuck in the Middle
Michael W. Johnson English 151 10/12/95
Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealers Wheel when they
recorded a Dylanesque pop hit, "Stuck in the Middle With You", in April of 1974.
The single reached number five on the charts - little did they know that
eighteen years later it would become a cult favorite.
In 1992 Quentin Tarantino, a little known writer/director, took the
Cannes film festival and the world by surprise with his motion picture Reservoir
Dogs. The movie is about the difficulties that occur when five "master"
criminals are hired by a crime king pin named Joe ....
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