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Things Are Looking 'Up' for Emmy, Grammy, Globe Winner Michael Giacchino
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 ...
"Crazy Heart" Trio to Sing at Spirit Awards
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 ...
Paul McCartney Returns to Hollywood Bowl
Paul McCartney will play the Hollywood Bowl on March 30, his first concert at the venue since 1993, as part of his just-announced 2010 Up and Coming tour. As hes been doing in recent years, the latest tour will be a combination of markets hes never visited and those he hasn't played lately. The tour opens ...
Michael Jackson Returns to Disneyland in Captain EO Tribute
Eight months after Michael Jackson's death, Disneyland on Tuesday will unveil Captain EO Tribute, a revamped and restored music video from the height of the pop stars fame. Following the success of the This Is It concert film, Disney has decided to dust off the 23-year-old music video for a limited engagement at the Anaheim theme ...
Michael Giacchino on the 'Emotional Time Bomb' Of 'Up'
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 ...
Best Original Song Nominee List Missing a Few Songs of Note
U2, Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige are among those who miss out on the short list. While T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham are up for “Weary Kind (Theme From 'Crazy Heart')." Oscar noms -- who got snubbed? By most criteria, Paul McCartney and U2 have little reason to regard French composers Reinhardt ...
Michael Giacchino Was a Crazed 9-Year-Old 'Star Wars' Geek
When Michael Giacchino was in elementary school, all his friends were following the rock bands of the moment, notably Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Beatles. But Giacchino admits that he was “pretty adverse" to rock 'n' roll. “I hate to admit it," he told me the other day, “but I was listening to a lot ...
Kathryn Grayson Sing Star of the Golden Age of Hollywood 1922-2010
Kathryn Grayson, the petite singer and actress whose operatic voice and campus-sweetheart beauty embodied the glamour of Hollywood movie musicals in the 1940s and 50s, died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 88. Ms. Grayson, a coloratura soprano, was best known for three film roles: the movie hopeful who attracts the attentions of ...
Randy Newman at Royce Hall
Randy Newman's best, most pointed songs usually will come around again with enough time, timely once more either from history repeating itself, or mankind living up to his worst expectations. At his concert Friday for UCLA Live at Royce Hall, his quietly wounded and defiant “Louisiana 1927" told of another generation's devastating flood, but had new ...
Celebrating Chopin's 200th Birthday at the Zipper
Evening of Music and Poetry celebrating Chopin's 200th Birthday The Paderewski Music Society and Modjeska Cultural Club present an all Chopin program. Poetry about the composer and his music will be recited by actress Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle"). February 27th : 7 p.m. Zipper Concert Hall 200 S Grand Ave., ...
