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Head of Hollywood Crews Union is Expected to Resign

Thomas Short was credited with building up the IATSE, but some called him too cozy with the studios. Thomas C. Short, the controversial head of the union representing Hollywood's film and TV crews who unified the industry's blue-collar workforce but was sharply criticized by some for being too friendly with the studios, is expected to resign ...

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Hollywood Shows Musicians the Money

Hollywood Shows Musicians the Money

TV, Film offers artists financial refuge DEVELOPING alternative revenue streams first is no longer a case of putting the cart before the horse for recording artists, especially the independent acts who are finding that placements in television and film provide a bit of financial freedom. Obviously visual media provide immediate paydays, and the return on investment ...

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Technologically Promiscuous American Youth Screw Viacom

Technologically Promiscuous American Youth Screw Viacom

How American Youth Will Screw Viacom Here's the thing about the TV business: It's only as profitable or as valuable as the people who watch it. And if the only people who watch it are senior citizens strapped by debt, it's not worth much -- not to advertisers, anyway. When Viacom posted second-quarter results yesterday, the ...

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Ella Fitzgerald Special Tonight KCET

Ella Fitzgerald Special Tonight KCET

Jazz Icons: Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 and '63 Two classic Ella Fitzgerald performances. The first, in Belgium (1957), features “Lullaby of Birdland" and “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"; the second set, in Sweden (1963), includes “Mack the Knife" and “Just One of those Things." TONIGHT'S one hour Ella Fitzgerald ...

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Jazz Age Films 1920's-Wall-E

Jazz Age Films 1920's-Wall-E

Jazz, Jazz-Scored, and Jazz Age Films: 1920s-Present Listed below are full-length feature films that meet one or more of these criteria: The story is about jazz or jazz musicians; The film features performances by famous (or fictional) jazz musicians; An impressive jazz soundtrack accompanies a story that may not have anything to do with jazz; The ...

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Huey Lewis Records Pineapple Express Theme

Huey Lewis records theme for 'Pineapple Express,' complete with toking sound courtesy of Seth Rogen Ask '80s pop-rock superstar Huey Lewis how he wound up recording the title song for the highly anticipated stoner action-comedy Pineapple Express, due in theaters Aug. 6, and he'll basically shrug. They e-mailed, 'Would I write a song for a Seth ...

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New James Bond Theme Alicia Keys and Jack White

New James Bond Theme Alicia Keys and Jack White

007 Alicia Keys, Jack White to Duet on New “James Bond" Theme A couple months ago, Alicia Keys talked about her desire to collaborate with the White Stripes. She'll have to settle for the next best thing, as Keys and Jack White are teaming up for the theme song of the next James Bond film Quantum ...

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The Dark Knight's Musical Mutations

The Dark Knight's Musical Mutations

The Dark Knight has survived many Sonic Iterations Though its current spectacle hews closely to the conventional blockbuster score of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Which works just fine, thanks, considering the film recently broke the record for fastest ever to rack up $300 million. But before those two composers, everyone from Nelson ...

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Secrecy Cloaked 'Dark Knight'

Warner Bros. took painstaking care to thwart pirates ahead of the film's premier, and the effort paid off. The mission was to keep The Dark Knight from seeing the light of day. In an era of instantaneous digital copying and widely available high-speed Internet access, the premature and unauthorized release of a movie to the public ...

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India's New Partnership: Bollywood and Hip-Hop

NEW DELHI -- Is Bollywood ready for Snoop Dogg? The rapper once dubbed “America's Most Loveable Pimp" by Rolling Stone makes his debut in India this summer, with a guest appearance on the title track of a highly anticipated Bollywood movie, Singh Is Kinng. The movie is set to open in August, but the title song ...


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