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Carrey, Gyllenhaal do Damn Yankees
New Line Cinema is playing ball with Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal on Damn Yankees, attaching both actors to star in a contemporized film transfer of the classic musical. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are set to write the script. The musical is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the duo behind New Line's ...
'American Idol': The Pile-Up
Please, America, be sane. Don't listen to the obviously predetermined (or at least heavily biased) patter of the judges. Try to put aside your preconceptions about what makes an “Idol" worth supporting. Do the right thing, and instead of going for novelty, looks or even personality, go for voice. Vote for Jesse Langseth. I know -- ...
Elvis Costello's 'Spectacle' Shares the Inside-the-Music Spotlight
A&E / Bio's The Chris Isaak Hour is the second new hourlong music performance and interview series to show up on cable TV in recent months, coming on the heels of the Sundance Channel's Spectacle, hosted by the ever- provocative Elvis Costello. Spectacle is really the brainchild of Elton John and his life-business partner, David Furnish, ...
Jazz Video Guy Meets Blue Note's Magnificent 7
The Blue Note 7 performing Steve Wilson's arrangement of Thelonious Monk's “Criss Cross" highlights the latest entry from Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack's bi-weekly blog, jazzvideoguy.tv. Blue Note Records' 70th Anniversary was the catalyst for the group featuring Nicholas Payton, Steve Wilson, Ravi Coltrane, Bill Charlap, Peter Bernstein, Peter Washington and Lewis Nash playing their own ...
Dengue Fever Play Silent Film
S.F. FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE LOST WORLD WITH LIVE SCORE Dengue Fever The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23-May 7) announces one of the highly anticipated special events of each year's Festival, the annual pairing of live music with an iconic silent film. Dengue Fever will perform the world premiere of their newly composed ...
Composers Give More Than Just a Soundtrack
Pacific Symphony's American Composers Festival has scores to settle The 2009 program, 'Hollywood's Golden Age,' addresses a longstanding lack of respect for music makers whose work was for films. Carl St.Clair can clearly recall being in the third grade in his hometown of Yoakum, Texas, and being “marched down to the Grand Theater where ...
Creating Tom Waits One from the Heart Soundtrack
With the Academy Awards tomorrow night, take a look at what actually goes into the creation of the musical score for the soundtrack a motion picture. Tom Waits is brought onto the Francis Coppola classic, One From The Heart, before even the script is finished. All recording is complete before shooting begins. Waits music gives fabric ...
A. R. Rahman Slumdog Fusionist in Oscar Spotlight
A. R. Rahman one of Indias most prolific film composers knows how big a deal it would be if he wins an Oscar on Sunday. Rahman, in his natural habitat at the computer, works on five or six films a year, juggling several at a time. He is a kind of national hero in India. One ...
Blind Boys of Alabama on Gospel Music Channel
Gospel Music Channel (http://www.gospelmusicchannel.com) television network will give viewers an exclusive sneak preview of the new concert DVD release from the legendary group The Blind Boys of Alabama when it world premieres Live in New Orleans on Monday, Feb 23 at 8:00 pm Eastern Time (encore at 11:30 pm.). The concert DVD of Live in New ...
White House Line-up for Stevie Wonder "Gershwin Prize" PBS Special
PBS STATIONS TO BROADCAST STEVIE WONDER IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE Stevie Wonder In Performance at the White House: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize will showcase an evening of celebration with President and Mrs. Obama at the White House in honor of musician Stevie Wonder's receipt of the ...
