In his excellent 2002 book, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable, Seth Godin tells the story of a trip... Read More
For all our real-time fascination with the Presidency, audiences usually show very little interest in cinematic portrayals of the Commander... Read More
If you’d like to catch up on the earlier installments, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of 50 Favorite... Read More
My 50th birthday is approaching so I’ve naturally been taking stock of, well, everything. I’ve been looking back at the... Read More
You’d think there be a month that went by that I didn’t think about the Oscars. Alas, I’m just that... Read More
August is my birthday month. But rather than wait for the 19th to roll around, I’m celebrating my birthday a... Read More
Bernard Herrmann called it “the score of a lifetime.” And, oh, what a lifetime! Except for some TV work and... Read More
Out of the numerous albums in Charles Gerhardt’s Classic Film Scores series, CAPTAIN BLOOD–CLASSIC FILM SCORES FOR ERROL FLYNN, released in... Read More
In addition to albums devoted to certain composers, Charles Gerhardt compiled a series of albums devoted to various film stars... Read More
The star of HUMORESQUE was composer Franx Waxman, not John Garfield’s driven concert violinist nor Joan Crawford as his patroness-slash-lover. Waxman’s... Read More