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Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution
People don't just do things for money, says Pink. 'We do things because they are interesting.' Clay Shirky and Daniel Pink have led eerily parallel lives. Both grew up in Midwest university towns in the 1970s, where they spent their formative years watching television after school and at night. Both later went to Yale (a BA ...
Sidekick No More: Eubanks Starts Post-Leno Life
Kevin Eubanks ended his 15-year tenure as musical director of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Friday with a song, alone on acoustic guitar. It was Adoration, an original ballad flecked with classical filigree, and he gave it a warmly dignified calm. He seemed unhurried and introspective, already pulling away from the frenetic clamor of ...
Israeli Filmmaker Adopts Camel Race Dream
Ezry Keydar and Nadav Ben Israel, two Israeli filmmakers, began making a documentary last year about a Bedouin man's dream of restoring camel races and cultural pride. But even before the film has been finished, his dream has become theirs. Camel racing in Israel may sound outlandish, but there's a serious point. Keydar says Israel is ...
Bandleader Kevin Eubanks Ends 18 Years with Leno
It's a wrap for Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks after 18 years backing up host Jay Leno. “I don't think we've ever had an argument," Leno said, bidding Eubanks farewell on Friday's show. “We've had a lot of fun." Eubanks, whose duties included comic sidekick to Leno as well as guitarist, had been aboard since Leno ...
'Cove' Release Sparks Ire in Japan
Oscar-winning doc “The Cove," which depicts the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan, is now set for a June 26 Japanese bow on 27 screens -- but the road to release has been rocky and the troubles may not yet be over. “The Cove's" helmer Louie Psihoyos and his staff encountered fierce opposition from the locals ...
Theme Songs Integral Part of Classic Remakes
Studios capitalize on title tunes familiar to both old and young. In a year when the TV Academy nearly abolished its Emmy “main title theme" category, classic TV themes are turning out to be incredibly valuable properties -- especially when it comes to remakes. An update of “Hawaii Five-O" is coming to CBS in the fall, ...
Top Ten Jazz Movies
The Bottom Line: This category was not as crowded as I would have liked because there are few great movies about jazz but several movies with great jazz. This is a very difficult epinion for me to write because I love jazz so much and movies about jazz are few and far between or just plain ...
Camping with Qaddafi
Spending quality time with the Libyan dictator is in the realm of living dangerously-Risky Business. Radan Popovic, 45, sits in the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in West Hollywood, a cup of tea in one hand, the other running through his head of thick, black hair. Hes your average, mild-mannered, former Eastern-bloc cinematographer living the Hollywood ...
Harry Gregson-Williams Works for Ogres and Princes Alike
It's the life of a film composer: One week you're in a fairy-tale world populated by green ogres and talking donkeys, the next week you're dashing around 6th century Persia with a spunky princess and a magical dagger. “Had the tasks been similar, it would be a very dull life," says Harry Gregson-Williams, composer of both ...
Lee DeWyze is Season 9 'Idol'
This is it: The new “American Idol" gets crowned tonight, as America says goodbye to Simon Cowell. (Until next year when he returns to Fox with his new show.) What was it like to actually be inside the Nokia? [Spoiler alert: This contains details from the finale of “American Idol."] This year, the Nokia has ...
