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Bird on a Wire is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by John Badham and starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. Gibson portrays a man in the witness protection program who is unexpectedly reunited with his former girlfriend, played by Hawn, and both find themselves on the run. Critical reception was mixed, but the film was a box office hit.
Many artists have covered the song, often as "Bird on a Wire" (indeed, this variation appears in the compilation The Essential Leonard Cohen), including: Tim Hardin on the album Bird on a Wire (1971) A version by Jennifer Warnes from her album Famous Blue Raincoat reached number 16 on the Canadian AC Chart in 1987. [4]
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, originally titled Bird on a Wire, is a 1974 documentary that chronicles a troubled 1972 concert tour of Europe and Israel by the Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen. [1] It was directed by British filmmaker Tony Palmer, with cinematography by Les Young.
Bird on a Wire may refer to: Film. Bird on a Wire, 1990 film starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn; Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, is a 1974 documentary ...
In his review for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the reissue that included Bird on a Wire: "There's a lot of pain in this disc, to be sure — it's hard to find a Hardin song that didn't have some — but also a level of lyrical and musical excellence that one should feel privileged to partake of." [3]
In a 2014 Rolling Stone readers poll ranking the top ten Leonard Cohen songs, "Bird on a Wire" came in at #5. Many of the songs from Cohen's second album would appear on 1973's Live Songs, a collection of performances from 1970 and 1972. Songs from a Room was released on CD in 1990.
Bird on a Wire is an album by folk artist Tim Hardin, released in 1971. It was Hardin's second release on Columbia Records . It peaked at No. 189 on the Billboard Pop Album charts and was his last album to chart.
David Seltzer (born February 12, 1940) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for The Omen (1976) [1] and Bird on a Wire (1990).