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The Glenn Miller Story
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All About Jazz
The 1954 film starring James Stewart, The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era.
June Allyson is on hand as Miller's wife, Helen, who learns the value of patience when Glenn spends his wedding night jamming with Gene Krupa and Louis Armstrong. Given an officer's commission during World War II, Miller helms the swingin'est military band ever heard.
In December of 1944, a plane carrying Miller ...
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SAG and Studios Reach Tentative Deal
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Michael Ricci
Negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract for the union's 120,000 members.
Sources close to the talks say the union's negotiating task force will be briefed today on the proposed agreement, which is expected to be voted on by SAG's 71-member national board on Sunday.
Actors have been working without a contract for nine months as previous attempts at negotiations with the studios collapsed.
The contract contains ...
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The Gene Krupa Story
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Michael Ricci
The Gene Krupa Story (1959) Review Published: December 26, 1959
THE word for “The Gene Krupa Story" is okay no less and certainly no more.
Columbia's film biography of the king of hot jazz drummers arrived yesterday at the Forum with Sal Mineo in the title role, some dandy musical sequences and a plot that, however authentic, plays like a familiar success story. As we meet the gifted Mr. Krupa here he is an out-of-town lad who conquers ...
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On-Location Film and TV Shoots in L.A. Hit Lowest Levels on Record
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Michael Ricci
The recession and incentives from other states have caused location work in the region to fall to the lowest levels on record, a FilmL.A. report to be issued today shows.
Location filming for movies and TV commercials on the streets of Los Angeles, once as prevalent as the corner taco truck, is rapidly fading to black. Double whammies of the recession and out-of-state economic incentives for producers have caused on-location film shoots in the Los Angeles area to fall to ...
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The Russian Arc
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All About Jazz
THE RUSSIAN ARC (2002)
A museum as a living being, an entity that breathes with a personality of its own. Sokrov lends soul to the colossal palace of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, one of the greatest museums in the world, witness to the Russian saga over the course of centuries.
The Russian Arc was filmed on a single plane-sequence, without cuts, 97 minutes long, through 35 rooms in the museum, making the cinema screen a living picture where three ...
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Jazz and Film Night with Diana Panton
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All About Jazz
Diana Panton will perform along with the screening of Four Wings & A Prayer, Friday, April 24, 2009 at the Eco Film & Arts Festival.
The Hamilton ECO Film and Arts Festival April 21-25, 2009 A five day celebration of Hamilton's arts and environmental communities.
Each night will feature the screening of an internationally acclaimed environmental film and a performance by renowned local musicians
Presenting Sponsor is TD Canada Trust. Venue is Hamilton Place ...
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'Spinal Tap' Made Mockumentaries the Art Form of Our Time. It Also Made Life Hell for Every Struggling Hair-Metal Bandjust Ask Anvil.
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All About Jazz
True story: when This Is Spinal Tap premiered in 1984, audiences thought it was a straightforward rock documentary about a real band.
Mind you, that would be a band that customizes the volume knob on an amp to go to 11, on the logic that 11 must be louder than 10. A band that copies Stonehenge for a stage set but mixes up inches and feet in the specifications and winds up with a doll-size replica. Who could believe such ...
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