TV / Film News

Jack White, Alicia Keys Misfire on New Bond Theme

Source: Michael Ricci
September 18, 2008

The song: Jack White and Alicia Keys, “Another Way to Die"

The good: It brings a bit of rock 'n' roll bite to the Bond theme and is instantly more memorable than the song Chris Cornell recorded for Casino Royale.

The bad: Any hooks by the song are provided by riffing on the instantly recognizable Bond theme, not by anything new offered in the song. And Keys, usually a relatively bold, in-your-face R&B singer, seems oddly tamed here, her voice ...

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Melody Gardot Chats with CNN | Melody Gardot | News

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2008

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About Half of U.S. TV Stations Ready for DTV

Source: PC Magazine
August 29, 2008

Approximately 56 percent of full-power television broadcasters are ready for the February 2009 digital television transition, while 41 percent are still working to meet their goals, according to a Thursday report from the Federal Communications Commission. Of the 1,798 broadcast stations in the country, 1,002 have completed the necessary work and need only turn off their analog signals next year. In order to free up valuable spectrum, television broadcasters have been ordered by Congress to shift from analog to digital ...

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The Spring Standards Get Conan on Friday

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 27, 2008

No Label? No Publisher? No Problem. Conan O'Brien Performance Confirmed for The Spring Standards, This Friday The Spring Standards are proud to announce their national television debut for this Friday night, August 29th, on NBC-TV's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. An independent band in virtually every sense of the word (no label, no publisher, etc,) The Spring Standards have let their music speak for itself, and have seen a path unfold for them that just seems to get better and ...

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Woodstock: Rock's Famous Fest Heads to the Big Screen

Source: All About Jazz
August 26, 2008

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm) and his producer partner James Schamus are dialing back to 1969 in their current project Taking Woodstock.

Based on a true story, Demetri Martin stars as interior designer Elliot Tiber, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in Woodstock when he offered his family's Catskills hotel to organizers as a home base, while his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy) offered his farm. The eclectic cast also includes Liev Schreiber, Paul Dano, Emile ...

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The Lost Art of Glamour

Source: Michael Ricci
August 25, 2008

Kobal Foundation celebrity photos capture eternal glamour. Santa Barbara Museum of Art displays some of the best portrait photography from Hollywood's Golden Age.

FROM THE time he was a schoolboy, John Kobal was in love with Hollywood. He longed to become a part of it, and eventually he did -- by befriending faded movie stars and forgotten photographers, enchanting them with his sincerity and his hungry memory, and collecting photographs. By the time he died in 1991, at ...

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American Idol Gets New Judge

Source: Michael Ricci
August 25, 2008

It's a girl!

When American Idol premieres in January, there will be a fourth judge seated at the judge's table: Grammy-nominated songwriter Kara DioGuardi, Fox announced on Monday. DioGuardi will use her background as a songwriter and producer to praise or critique the contestants throughout the competition, according to a press release. The eighth season of the show premieres on Jan. 29. The network, partly responding to a small decline in ratings, announced in January that there will be changes ...

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Summer of "Love of Don Ellis" Film Tour 2008

Source: CSP-Media
August 25, 2008

Electric Heart Screenings include: Moondance International Film Festival (August 29 - September 1st) Boulder, Colorado Screenings date: Saturday, August 30th. The 51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival (September 20th, 5:30pm Jazz Theater - Monterey, California (Music with Milcho Leviev, Screening & Discussion). Earshot Jazz Festival (October 18 - November 9) Screening dates: November 1 & 3. Northwest Film Forum. Great Britian & The British Isles DVD & CD Distributor Sleepy Night Records and Producer Gary Gillies has signed an Agreement with ...

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