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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 ...
Davell Crawford: New Orleans Jazz Musician Featured on NBC's the Today Show
Almost five years ago, New Orleans jazz & R&B sensation Davell Crawford, like many others, was tragically struck hard by the torment of Hurricane Katrina. The proclaimed “Prince of New Orleans" had his home, studio, piano and all other possessions destroyed and turned to rubble - and although the rebuilding process still has a long road ...
Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story 3
Screenwriter William Goldman once famously declared that the most important fact of life in Hollywood is that nobody knows anything. It was his way of describing a reality that continues to haunt the movie business: Studio executives have no idea which pictures will make money. Unless, of course, those pictures are made by Pixar Animation Studios. ...
Dexter Gordon Stars in "Round Midnight"
NO actor could do what the great jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon does in Round Midnight, Bertrand Tavernier's glowing tribute to the golden age of be-bop. Mr. Gordon, who stars in the film as an expatriate American named Dale Turner, becomes the very embodiment of the music itself. It's in his heavy-lidded eyes, in his hoarse, smoky ...
A Second Look: John Ford's 'Stagecoach'
The director's iconic western, now on a restored Criterion DVD, made John Wayne a star. “Stagecoach" is agnostic on the matter of social progress, which brings with it a wealth of hypocrisy and corruption. At a Directors Guild meeting in 1950, a tense session on the subject of anti-Communist loyalty oaths, John Ford began his dissenting ...
Jazz War, Anyone? Jason Marsalis vs. 'Jazz Nerds International'
Have you, as a listener, been suffering under the influence of Jazz Nerds International? Jazz critic and blogger for the Ottawa Citizen Peter Hum wrote a terrific post Thursday on the latest installment in what's become known as “the jazz wars," a long-running culture clash pitting the music's traditionalists -- personified by nearly any member of ...
Timothy Brock Keeps the Score in Frame for 'The Cameraman'
The composer will conduct the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in playing his new music for the Buster Keaton silent film. Silence has been golden for conductor and composer Timothy Brock. For nearly 25 years, he has made a name for himself as one of the few composers and conductors who specialize in silent film. He has ...
What Does Google TV Do for Sony?
Quick, which company is bigger: Google or Sony? If you answered Google, you'd be wrong -- at least when it comes to sales. Google pulled in $23.7 billion in revenue last year compared with Sony's $77.6 billion. But if one judges it by the amount of press generated by Thursday's announcement that Sony would be the ...
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