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Various: Adventures Of Superman/Original Television Sountrack
by AAJ Staff
In early 1951, National comics gave Lippert Pictures, a Hollywood B-movie production company, the green light to film a one hour television pilot episode of The Adventures of Superman. It was decided that this pilot would be released theatrically, in the event that television (at the time in it's infancy) didn't take off. Producers Robert Maxwell and Barney Sarecky were brought in, along with director Lee Sholem, a script was approved, a film crew selected, and George Reeves and Phyllis ...
read moreLinda Purl: Alone Together
by Jim Santella
Linda Purl has described her vocal performances as “standards in a jazz marinade." Taking the rough edges off her songs and presenting them in an expressive yet articulate manner, she tells stories with all the experience that her storied acting career has provided. Purl is noted for her stage and screen performances that include dozens of film roles over the last twenty-five years. Acting roles such as Fonzie’s early 1980s girlfriend Ashley Pfister of Happy Days, Matlock ’s resourceful daughter ...
read moreChris Boardman: Payback
by Douglas Payne
Payback is a well-crafted, stylish and way-too violent neo-noir update of John Boorman's 1967 noir classic, Point Blank. For its equally crafty and stylish score, composer Chris Boardman provides a “throwback" to the in-again sound of 1970s cop shows and Blaxploitation pictures. Boardman, composer of Bordello of Blood, many TV films and orchestrator on a vast array of scores including The Game, Waterworld and Pochahontas, really nails the sound here. And his music contributes a great deal ...
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