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Spencer Day TV Performance Online
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On Target Media Group
Spencer Day's appearance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson is now online. Spencer performed his new single, “Til You Come To Me" from his new album and Concord Jazz debut, (Vagabond).
Out now, the new album draws from the 'Great American Songbook' and is infused with contemporary influences from artists like Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield and Burt Bacharach.
About Spencer Day Spencer Day has enjoyed a musical career remarkable even for someone twice his age. He has appeared ...
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Jay Leno Show: This is the Best NBC Has to Offer?
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Michael Ricci
Jay Leno Show stays on familiar ground. Seinfeld and Oprah are a breath of fresh air for the comedian's new show, which feels like anything but.
It's not a good sign when the Bud Light commercial is funnier than the comedy show it interrupts.
Sixteen minutes into the new “The Jay Leno Show," it was difficult not to panic. This is the future of television? This wasn't even a good rendition of television past.
Clearly Leno believes that if it ...
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Union County Performing Arts Center Presents Best of the Garden State Film Festival
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Michael Ricci
Union County Performing Arts Center presents BEST OF THE GARDEN STATE FILM FESTIVAL featuring award-winning feature length documentary, Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison and award-winning short film, The Drummer.
Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 8PM; Tickets $15 general admission; Box Office: 732-499-8226 or online at www.ucpac.org
Union County Performing Arts Center presents Best of the Garden State Film Festival, featuring award-winning feature length documentary Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison and award-winning short film, The Drummer, on Saturday, October 3, 2009 ...
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Telluride Film Festival: Jason Reitman Returns Flying High
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Michael Ricci
When director Jason Reitman brought “Juno" to the Telluride Film Festival two years ago, it was the start of something big. The comedy not only went on to become a break-out hit (domestic gross: $143.5 million) but also brought screenwriter Diablo Cody the best original screenplay Oscar.
Reitman was back in the Colorado resort town Saturday night with a sneak preview of “Up in the Air," and, judging from the audience reaction at its first, sold-out showing, the 31-year-old filmmaker ...
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Jazz Artist Tamela D'Amico Making Waves in Television with Sex Ed: The Series.
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All About Jazz
TV Guide suggests that the television pilot Sex Ed: The Series, produced and directed by multi-talented jazz artist Tamela D'Amico, should be the next hot property picked up by a cable television network. Damian Holbrook of TVGuide.com writes, “As we head into the fall, you’ll be hearing a lot of talk about the “hottest shows" of the new TV season. Melrose Place, Glee, Accidentally on Purpose. (Just kidding about that last one. Jenna Elfman’s new crapcom stinks like bad fish ...
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The Other Side of Hugh Hefner
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All About Jazz
The (Not So) Dirty Secrets of Hugh Hefner
The name Hugh Hefner is all but synonymous with debauchery - the 'Playboy' founder is equally famous for his racy publication as his simultaneous relationships with young, blonde women and the notoriously raucous parties held at Playboy Mansion. But the 83-year-old ladies' man has a history of putting his money where his mouth is, politically speaking. “One of the things I find really curious is when people say I've lived an amoral ...
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Playing for Change Tour PBS Doc Airs This Month
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JamBase
PLAYING FOR CHANGE ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE FALL TOUR KICKING OFF OCTOBER 20 DOCUMENTARY “PLAYING FOR CHANGE: PEACE THROUGH MUSIC" AIRS NATIONALLY IN AUGUST ON PBS
Playing For Change After a series of shows that generated rave reviews in Los Angeles, New Orleans and the U.K., it was announced that Playing For Change will launch a national concert tour. Kicking off October 20 at The Birchmere in Washington, DC, the fall tour will bring the Playing For Change movement to ...
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