Results for "TV / Film"

The Glenn Miller Story

April 17, 2009

The 1954 film starring James Stewart, The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era. June Allyson is on hand as Miller's wife, Helen, who learns the value of patience when Glenn spends his wedding night jamming with Gene Krupa and Louis Armstrong. ...

SAG and Studios Reach Tentative Deal

April 17, 2009

Negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract for the union's 120,000 members. Sources close to the talks say the union's negotiating task force will be briefed today on the proposed agreement, which is expected to be voted on by SAG's 71-member national board ...

The Gene Krupa Story

April 16, 2009

The Gene Krupa Story (1959) Review Published: December 26, 1959 THE word for “The Gene Krupa Story" is okay no less and certainly no more. Columbia's film biography of the king of hot jazz drummers arrived yesterday at the Forum with Sal Mineo in the title role, some dandy musical sequences and a plot ...

On-Location Film and TV Shoots in L.A. Hit Lowest Levels on Record

April 14, 2009

The recession and incentives from other states have caused location work in the region to fall to the lowest levels on record, a FilmL.A. report to be issued today shows. Location filming for movies and TV commercials on the streets of Los Angeles, once as prevalent as the corner taco truck, is rapidly fading to black. ...

The Russian Arc

April 14, 2009

THE RUSSIAN ARC (2002) A museum as a living being, an entity that breathes with a personality of its own. Sokrov lends soul to the colossal palace of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, one of the greatest museums in the world, witness to the Russian saga over the course of centuries. The Russian Arc was filmed ...

Jazz and Film Night with Diana Panton

April 13, 2009

Diana Panton will perform along with the screening of Four Wings & A Prayer, Friday, April 24, 2009 at the Eco Film & Arts Festival. The Hamilton ECO Film and Arts Festival April 21-25, 2009 A five day celebration of Hamilton's arts and environmental communities. Each night will feature the screening of ...

'Spinal Tap' Made Mockumentaries the Art Form of Our Time. It Also Made Life Hell for Every Struggling Hair-Metal Bandjust Ask Anvil.

April 13, 2009

True story: when This Is Spinal Tap premiered in 1984, audiences thought it was a straightforward rock documentary about a real band. Mind you, that would be a band that customizes the volume knob on an amp to go to 11, on the logic that 11 must be louder than 10. A band that copies Stonehenge ...

Johnny Cash Does Elvis

April 13, 2009

Jazz It Up! New Episode: Lewis Nash Quintet, the Caribbean Jazz Project, Stanley Jordan's Guitar Technique, Vintage Nina Simone, Chuck Stewart's Photography, and Duke Ellington News

April 11, 2009

New York, NY – Drummer Lewis Nash blazes his quintet with percussive drive and the Caribbean Jazz Project with vibraphonist Dave Samuels brings spicy swing to the headline features for episode 5 of the second season of Jazz it Up! In exclusive interviews (heard during the second of two songs featured by each) Samuels tells host ...

Paris' Quai Branly Museum Celebrates 'Jazz Century'

April 6, 2009

In one image displayed at the exhibit, 57 jazz artists gather on a stoop in Harlem in 1958. Dizzy Gillespie sticks out his tongue at Roy Elridge, and Count Basie sits next to a row of neighborhood boys. The museum traces jazz from its roots to its appearance in myriad art forms, even in a Three ...