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Interview: Mark Isham
With five films, a new jazz band, and a new album, Mark Isham has had a busy year. We recently spoke by phone about recording, performing, and composing. In between his crowded schedule (and some frustrating
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Color It Empty
“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it.” Not as much as the film of THE COLOR PURPLE pissed me off. Based on Alice
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Lost In the Shuffle XIII
An Egyptian queen, a slain gay civil rights leader, a boy brought up by wolves, and animal sex…just four of the “amazing stories” in this week’s segment of Lost in the Shuffle. BIRDS DO IT,
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Spellbound
Producer David O. Selznick, who had recently gone through a “successful” bout of therapy (not at all common in the mid-1940s), was determined to bring the world of psychoanalysis to the screen and hired
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CD Review: Fame (2009)
Longtime readers of this blog know of my fondness for the 1980 version of FAME. Far from perfect, the film nonetheless holds a seminal place in my heart. My anticipation for the new film
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Train of Death
Legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie became a hot property in the 1970s, much as E.M. Forster would become in the ’80s and Jane Austen in the ’90s. Though Christie’s murder tales had been filmed
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Lost In the Shuffle XII
Malcolm Arnold, Andre Previn, Patrick Doyle, John Williams, and the Village People. There’s an odd quintet (or octet if you count the Village People as four). HOBSON’S CHOICE (1954) – Finale [Audio clip: view
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CD Review: The Informant!
I didn’t know how much I missed Marvin Hamlisch! It’s been a long time since we’ve heard a score from the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer Prize, and triple Oscar winner–1996 to be exact. His
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Book Review: A Heart At Fire’s Center – The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
Writing about music is difficult. How to put aural sounds into language is a subjective, and often frustrating, if not futile, exercise. These blog posts are a testament to that fact. It’s something I
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