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Christopher Nolan's Dim View of a Hollywood Craze: 'I'm Not a Huge Fan of 3-D'
Christopher Nolan, speaking at the Hero Complex Film Festival, was cheered loudly by the audience when he made a moviegoer confession: “I'm not a huge fan of 3-D." The director of “The Dark Knight" added that, after doing 3-D tests, his new film “Inception" will not be released in the trendy stereoscopic format because “we didn't ...
Carpenters' Lead Guitarist Tony Peluso Dies
Tony Peluso, lead guitarist for the Carpenters and a Motown and Latin music producer, died June 5 in Los Angeles of heart disease. He was 60. Peluso was with the band for 12 years, beginning with single “Goodbye to Love" in 1972, touring the world with siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter and recording many albums. After ...
Federal Commission Approves Box-Office Futures Trading
Box-office futures have passed a final regulatory hurdle, clearing the way for the first bets to be placed in the near future, and overcoming objections by Hollywood that sought to block it. In a 3-2 vote, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday afternoon approved a contract created by the company Media Derivatives that would allow ...
Denise Donatelli: One of the Best Jazz Singers
I've been DJ'ing a jazz radio show for almost 20 years now and I always love “discovering" a new artist. Quite often, those “new" artists have been performing for years, and I just haven't been fortunate enough to hear them. One such artist is Denise Donatelli. Born to a musical family in Allentown, Pa., Denise started ...
Playing in the Pits
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play in the orchestra pit for a West End musical? Christopher Fish, the cellist who plays in Oliver, has been playing in West End shows for nine years. He's played in 6 shows back to back. You'll find his name on the CDs of the cast ...
Reblog This at Your Own Legal Risk
Bloggers rip, reuse and rehash text and media from the entrails of the Internet all the time, but the legality of doing so remain contentious. Legal questions aside, the major blogging platforms have come to facilitate the reproduction of content from other websites. Last week, WordPress, the top host of blogs, added a “reblog" feature. Clicking ...
Tonys Celebrate Commerce, Not Art
In Tony Awards voters' eyes, box-office potential and Hollywood celebrity trump quality and innovation. Awards should be aspirational, validating excellence and originality even though each and every one of us knows that commercialism rules the day. But far be it from the ever-insecure Tony's the geeky glee club representative of the major entertainment awards to bite ...
L. A. Philharmonic's Ernest Fleischmann Dies
Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation. Fleischmann, a visionary administrator who had a hand in every decision made about the orchestra for nearly 30 years, was pivotal in raising its profile and quality. Ernest Fleischmann, the impresario who dominated the Los Angeles Philharmonic for nearly 30 years as it was ...
Starbucks Announces Free Wi-Fi
Starbucks Coffee Company CEO Howard Schultz announces free Wi-Fi in all Starbucks locations at the Wired Disruptive by Design conference in New York City during a conversation with Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. Starbucks coffee drinks have become synonymous with the high costs consumers are cutting back on these days, but at least the Wi-Fi connections ...
One Theater Geek's Summer at Stagedoor Manor
At age 31, Mickey Rapkin packed his bags and headed to summer camp. But it wasn't just any camp it was Stagedoor Manor, one of the nation's most prestigious theater camps, located in upstate New York. This was where Robert Downey Jr. played Mr. Deusel in a 1976 production of The Dairy of Anne Frank, Natalie ...
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