TV / Film News

St. Louis Musicians for Haiti Concert Telecast Re-Running This Month on Hec-TV

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 3, 2010

HEC-TV has scheduled reruns of the telecast of last month's St. Louis Musicians for Haiti benefit concert for 5:00 p.m. every Saturday night in March. HEC-TV can be found on Channel 26 of cable systems in the St. Louis area and on AT&T U-Verse's channel 99.The event at the Sheldon Concert Hall raised more than $20,000 for Doctors Without Borders' efforts to provide relief in the earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation. It was hosted by author and former TV newsman ...

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Oscar "In Memoriam" segment tough to produce

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2010

“It gets close to agonizing by the end," produce Bruce Davis says of the editing process for the Oscar “in memoriam" segment. “You are dropping people who the public knows. It's just not comfortable." The Kodak Theatre goes quiet as the big screen at center stage begins flashing images of actors and filmmakers who have died. A photo of Heath Ledger or Paul Newman might move the audience to spontaneous applause. Other images inspire deep sighs, as viewers reflect on ...

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Who Will Replace Kevin Eubanks?

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2010

Who Should Replace Kevin Eubanks On 'The Tonight Show'? Doesn't seem like such a terrible job. The most prominent jazz guitarist in America is quitting his job -- or as Bill Braginsaid this morning over Twitter, perhaps he's finally going back to his job. The announcement that bandleader Kevin Eubanks will soon leave 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' house band is perhaps old news by now. So let the speculation begin: who will replace him? Given the history of ...

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No Concessions: Scorsese, Polanski Still Crazy After All These Years

Source: Pop Dose
March 1, 2010

Film culture today, I muttered, as I waded through (and into) an unusually bothersome post on the usually half-annoying (but compulsively readable) Hollywood Elsewhere site. Look: Its OK not to get, or to enjoy, Douglas Sirk pictures like All That Heaven Allows (1955) or Imitation of Life (1959). Im not all that crazy about Terrence Malick or Wes Anderson, who have similar followings. But not to acknowledge Sirks continuing influence (on, among other things, Mad Men) or to back up ...

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Kevin Eubanks Leaving Tonight Show

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2010

Jay Leno may have beat Conan O'Brien in the battle of The Tonight Show, but one of the casualties of the late-night war may have been his bandleader Kevin Eubanks, who will reportedly abscond from the 11:35 p.m. time slot to pursue other opportunities. According to the New York Times, while Eubanks will have guitar in hand and be eager to laugh at all of Leno's jokes when The Tonight Show returns on March 1st, his status after those transitional ...

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Danny Elfman Searches for the Sound Of 'Wonderland'

Source: Michael Ricci
February 24, 2010

“ALICE IN WONDERLAND": 30 DAY COUNTDOWN

Are you ready for a trip down the rabbit hole? Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Disney are adding a strange new chapter to the Lewis Carroll classic with “Alice in Wonderland," a film that presents a young woman who finds herself in the world of the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen. She is welcomed as a returning visitor -- but is she in fact the same Alice who roamed the ...

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Things Are Looking 'Up' for Emmy, Grammy, Globe Winner Michael Giacchino

Source: Michael Ricci
February 24, 2010

Disney/Pixar's “Up" is a major player in this year's Oscars race, with nominations in five races, including one for best picture (the second 'toon ever to receive such a nomination). Its other nods are for original screenplay, sound editing, original music score and animated feature.

It's considered a lock to win for animated feature and has emerged as a front-runner in the music category where composer Michael Giacchino has received his second Oscar nomination. (His first was for Disney/Pixar's “Ratatouille" ...

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"Crazy Heart" Trio to Sing at Spirit Awards

Source: Michael Ricci
February 23, 2010

Jeff Bridges, T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham will make what may be their swan song appearance together in conjunction with the film Crazy Heart when they perform one of the movies songs at the 25h anniversary Spirit Awards ceremony on March 5 in Los Angeles. Rather than singing the much-lauded theme “The Weary Kind," the best-song Oscar-nominee that Bingham and Burnett wrote, the trio plans to offer up “Fallin' and Flyin'," written by the late Texas singer and songwriter ...

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