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Who Will Replace Kevin Eubanks?
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All About Jazz
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
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Pop Dose
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
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All About Jazz
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'
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Michael Ricci
“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
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Michael Ricci
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
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Michael Ricci
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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Michael Giacchino on the 'Emotional Time Bomb' Of 'Up'
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Michael Ricci
The score from animated film “Up" won the Music Bafta last night (February 21) at the British Academy Film Awards. Composer Michael Giacchino was awarded the prize for his work on the film at the ceremony held at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.
In approximately four minutes, composer Michael Giacchino had to reflect a lifetime. Early in Disney-Pixar's computer-animated “Up," the film's main character, Carl, experiences marriage, loss and all the highs and lows of the decades ...
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Erhu Soloist Added Heartfelt Tone to "Up in the Air"
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Michael Ricci
In the Oscar-nominated film “Up in the Air," audiences watch the familiar routines of contemporary airline travel while hearing the unfamiliar sounds of an ancient Asian instrument, thanks to erhu virtuoso Karen Hua-Qi Han. Like the violin, the erhu is a stringed instrument played with a bow, but many of the similarities end there. “It's two strings, 'er' in Chinese means 'two,' “Han explained." 'Hu' means it's not really from China. It was from Tibet and Mongolia, that area, in ...
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