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20 articles from 2009
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #17
4 hours ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
This week I'm on time and have more than just one movie to discuss as I finally finished watching both Terrence Malick and Paul Weitz's filmography, caught another Christmas film I had not seen and refreshed my memory on a Spielberg sci-fi.
As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. I now have 51 friends on the movie rental site and would love to have a few more if those of you out there with accounts are interested. Now, here's the recap of my week in movies...
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) Quick Thoughts: For no real reason whatsoever other than the fact this film had landed on my radar over the past few months, I finally decided to watch A.I. since first watching it back in 2001. I remember not being blown away after seeing it the first time and again I wasn't bowled over, but »
- Brad Brevet
White Christmas: Anniversary Edition - DVD Review
13 November 2009 5:43 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
The palatial M&C offices have an air of snow about them and it.s not even Thanksgiving yet. It may have to do with a visit from troubadours Der Bingle, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. It may be a White Christmas after all and I didn.t even know it was coming. Lord help the sister that comes between man and my man, that didn.t sound right. On Christmas Eve, 1944, Capt. Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) is entertaining his fellow troops with the help of Pvt. Phil Davis (Danny Kaye). Their beloved commander Maj. Gen. Thomas Waverly (Dean Jagger) arrives for the end of the show and to relinquish command. His men give his a rousing send off that is »
- Jeff Swindoll
The Reincarnation Of David Fincher
8 November 2009 11:04 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
David Fincher's next gig, following Facebook app The Social Network which he's just started shooting, looks set to be The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. It'll re-team the director with Seven's writer Andrew Kevin Walker, who will adapt the novel by Max Ehrlich.The 35-year-old supernatural thriller involves a university lecturer's attempts to prove he's the reincarnation of somebody who died shortly before he was born, and to solve the mystery of his murder, for which the killer was never caught. It was filmed once before: a 1975 Bing Crosby production by J Lee Thompson, starring Margot Kidder and Michael Sarrazin, and adapted by Ehrlich himself. We all know David Fincher's stellar trajectory from Alien 3 to Benjamin Button, but Walker's path has been rockier. He followed Seven with the dodgy 8mm (heavily rewritten by Joel Schumacher) and Tim Burton's awesome Sleepy Hollow, but then, through uncredited rewrites »
Grace Kelly: To Catch A Thief, The Swan
5 November 2009 4:03 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby’s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly’s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn’t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself received Academy Award nominations. Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...] »
- Andre Soares
New On DVD This Week
3 November 2009 3:35 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, North by Northwest, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Rockford Files. Plus, there’s some classic Dr. Who coming out this week as well.
Check them out.
Movies
A Christmas Carol ~ Alastair Sim, Jack Warner (Blu-ray)
Aliens in the Attic ~ Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts (DVD and Blu-ray)
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1 (The Big Heat / 5 Against the House / The Lineup / Murder by Contract / The Sniper) ~ (DVD)
The Claudette Colbert Collection (Three-Cornered Moon / Maid of Salem / I Met »
- Joe Gillis
Exclusive Video: Festive White Christmas Special Feature Clip
29 October 2009 9:21 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
We have a brand new exclusive special feature clip from the brand new anniversary edition of White Christmas, which will be released on DVD on November 3. Click below to take a look at our exclusive special feature clip, which deals with Bing Crosby taking the time to sing for American soldiers.
White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which &"What Can You Do With a General?" is the least memorable. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye (replacing an ailing Donald O'Connor) play nightclub entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, while Rosemary Clooney and VeraEllen are cast as singing-sister act Betty and Judy. The foursome travel to Vermont to visit Bob and Phil's Wii commanding officer, General Waverly (Dean Jagger, »
Obit: Guitar Hero Les Paul
13 August 2009 5:06 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Amy Kaufman
Legendary musician and the inventor of an iconic line of solid-body electric guitars Les Paul has died of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.
Paul played guitar with some of his generation's preeminent musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby. He also invented multitrack recording, which allows artists to record multiple instruments and voice parts at different times. With his second wife Mary Ford on vocals -- some of them mult... »
- Lew Harris
Guitar Legend Les Paul Dead At 94
13 August 2009 10:51 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Guitar legend and inventor Les Paul has died after a battle with pneumonia at the age of 94.
The music icon passed away with his family and friends by his bedside at White Plains Hospital in New York on Thursday after suffering complications from the illness.
Born Lester William Polfuss in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the star rose to fame in the 1930s as a jazz guitarist.
After a brief stint with The Les Paul Trio, formed in New York with pals Jim Atkins and bassist Ernie Newton in 1938, Paul moved to Hollywood where he landed his big break playing alongside Nat King Cole as a last minute stand-in for Oscar Moore.
The 1944 performance in the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles led Paul to appear on Bing Crosby's radio show, a partnership that would later produce a number of hit records, including 1945 song It's Been A Long, Long Time.
Paul also scored a string of chart successes with his wife Mary Ford, whom he was married to for 13 years until 1962, such as How High the Moon, Nola, Lover and Vaya Con Dios, which became number one records for the duo in the U.S. pop charts.
But Paul is perhaps best known for being a pioneer in the development of the electric guitar - building The Log, one of the first solid-body axes, in 1939.
He landed a deal with the Gibson Guitar Corporation in the early 1950s to produce the Les Paul model, which has since become the trademark instrument for artists like Jimmy Page, The Who's Pete Townshend and jazz great Al Dimeola.
He was also noted for his innovations in overdubbing, delay effects and multitrack recording.
During his lengthy career, Paul received a host of accolades including a Grammy Trustees Award in 1983 in honour of his lifetime achievements.
He was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame alongside Ford in 1978, and later, in 1988, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Jeff Beck. »
Guitar Hero Les Paul Dead at 94
13 August 2009 10:18 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Grammy winner changed music via the electric guitar and multitrack recordings.
By Amy Kaufman
Legendary musician and the inventor of an iconic line of solid-body electric guitars Les Paul has died of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.
Paul played guitar with some of his generation's preeminent musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby. He also invented multitrack recording, which allows artists to record multiple instruments and voice parts at different times. With his second wife Mary Ford on vocals -- some of them multitracked up to 75 times -- and Paul's guitar electronically speeded up, he recorded a string ... »
- Amy Kaufman
Les Paul, Guitar Legend, Dead at 94
12 August 2009 10:40 PM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Musician/inventor is credited with innovations in multi-track recording and designed the Gibson guitar that bears his name.
By Gil Kaufman
Les Paul
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Les Paul, the man credited with helping to revolutionize the electric guitar and change the course of music with his innovations in multi-track recording, died on Thursday (August 13) at the age of 94. According to a statement released by Gibson guitars — which manufactures the world-famous guitars bearing Paul's name — he died of complications from pneumonia in a White Plains, New York, hospital.
From the time he picked up his first guitar at the age of 9, Paul was fascinated with the instrument and its myriad possibilities. He began playing professionally at age 13 with country and western bands, as well as tinkering in his shop with a number of sound-related inventions that would soon revolutionize and forever change the sound of modern popular music. »
Five Things You Didn't Know about Crosby Loggins
14 July 2009 1:25 PM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
After beating out the children of Bobby Brown, Olivia Newton-John and Mc Hammer on MTV's Rock the Cradle last year, Crosby Loggins (the son of soundtrack stud Kenny Loggins) went to work on his first album. With his mellow, heartfelt debut Time to Move - featuring John Mayer on guitar in the title track - in stores Tuesday, Loggins, 28, filled People in on his childhood, his hidden talents and his pet chicken. 1. He recorded at the Village in L.A., which is like a clean frat house for musicians: "It was pretty cool - Weezer was downstairs, Seal was down the hall, »
- Anne Marie Cruz
Who is the Best Crooner of All Time?
7 July 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Photo by Mark Seliger. In the August issue of Vanity Fair, legendary singer Tony Bennett salutes the late, great Frank Sinatra. “He started out as Frankie, then became Frank, then the Chairman of the Board and, of course, Ol’ Blue Eyes—but he remained true to himself and his friends ... and he was a best friend to me,” Bennett wrote. Best friend, maybe, but is Sinatra the best crooner in history, or could Bing Crosby, Harry Connick Jr, or Mel Torme challenge his claim to the crown? Flip through our slideshow and then take your pick. »
Feinstein's Continues 10th Anniversary Season With Return Of Kathryn Crosby 6/15
11 June 2009 4:26 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Feinstein's At Loews Regency, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, continues its 10th Anniversary season with the return of Kathryn Crosby for one night only on Monday, June 15. Mrs. Crosby will perform her autobiographical show, "My Life With Bing," which recounts the story of her relationship with husband and Hollywood legend, Bing Crosby. »
Microsoft's Bing Unveiled, with Sound Effects and a 'Decision Engine'
28 May 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
We heard rumors the other day, and Steve Ballmer officially revealed the existence of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, during the D7 conference.
The name was carefully chosen to help with the branding--it helps to have a familiar-sounding name that can easily be turned into a verb, according to Ballmer, who also reportedly had fun repeatedly saying "bing!". (The timing of the announcement was less carefully chosen: Bing.com won't be live until June 3.) Bing is a pretty direct reference to the success of the name Google, which is Microsoft's target, after all. It's also a short URL, and easy to remember so people can talk about it... and it most definitely wasn't named for Bing Crosby.
As far as the technology goes, at the All Things D demo, Ballmer was keen to show that Bing will be more relevant than existing search engines by prioritizing certain kind »
- Kit Eaton
Spotlight: Dick DeBenedictis Remembers...
21 May 2009 2:40 AM, PDT | Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news »
Few composers have such a long past in network television music as Dick DeBenedictis. A native of New Milford, New Jersey, DeBenedictis never saw himself as a film composer right up until his first commission! He was thrown into the deep end so to speak... Over four decades he provided music for classic episodes of Columbo, Matlock, Father Dowling, Diagnosis Murder and tons of other series' which may not be as well known today. This was all written in addition to a rich background in writing for musical theatre, another major forte of the composer. In my interview with Dick DeBenedictis, we revisit all these shows with a special focus on select episodes of Columbo where Dick had to write music for murderous musicians!
How did your fascination with music begin?
I began piano lessons at the age of ten or eleven, then I attended Ithaca College. I got a »
410 East Washington Street
22 April 2009 12:27 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
I was born at the center of the universe, and have had good fortune for all of my days. The center was located at the corner of Washington and Maple streets in Urbana, Illinois, a two-bedroom white stucco house with green canvas awnings, evergreens and geraniums in front and a white picket fence enclosing the back yard. Hollyhocks clustered thickly by the fence. There was a barbeque grill back there made by my father with stone and mortar, a dime embedded in its smokestack to mark the year of its completion.
There was a mountain ash tree in the front yard, and three more down the parking on the side of the house. These remarkable trees had white bark that could be peeled loose, and their branches were weighed down by clusters of red-orange berries. "People are always driving up and asking me about those trees," my father said. He had planted them himself, »
- Roger Ebert
Bradford International Film Festival Diary Day 3:
28 March 2009 3:22 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Lee Pfeiffer reports on the Bradford International Film Festival -Day 3
Today's events began at 10:00 Am with a crowd gathering in the Pictureville Cinema for Cinerama Ventures, a festival of documentaries hosted by Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch, producers of the acclaimed documentary Cinerama Adventure. The presentation included new featurettes about the making of How the West Was Won that were frustratingly dropped from the recent deluxe DVD release. One documentary looked at the film's return engagement in the 1990s at the Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Theatre and featured moving interviews with attendees who spoke about how much the film meant to them. Another fascinating documentary centered on the film's legendary run at the small Neon Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. The theater was specially fixed to conform with Cinerama projection standards and How the West Was Won was intended to run for a matter of weeks...instead it ran for years, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Anne Hathaway could contend at Oscars and Tonys for playing Judy Garland
23 March 2009 6:15 PM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
If you thought Anne Hathaway was brave for singing and dancing with Hugh Jackman on the recent Oscarcast, that was a walk in the park compared with her next performance — playing Judy Garland on both stage and screen. The Oscar-nominated actress ("Rachel Getting Married") is to star in upcoming film and legit adaptations of Gerald Clarke's 2000 biography "Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland."
With the Weinstein Co. producing both these properties, Anne Hathaway is in good hands. While there is no word as to any of the other creatives involved in these projects, the source material is rich with possibilities, including as it does material in Judy Garland's own words. Gerald Clarke's biography of the late, great writer Truman Capote was the basis for "Capote," which was nominated for five awards at the 2005 Oscars including best picture and won lead actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman. »
- tomoneil
On This Day: Frank Sinatra founds Image Comics
13 February 2009 7:50 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Well, not quite. But consider:
He was a young hot-shot, insanely popular with the kids. But he was tired of buckling under for the suits who controlled his career and had nearly scuttled it in the past, he wanted more artistic freedom for his own recordings. So he founded Reprise Records, and on this day in 1961, released the first album, Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
One of the label's founding principles under Sinatra's leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom, and at some point complete ownership of their work; including publishing rights. As a result, a lot of other talented creators came on board with Frank, including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Redd Foxx, Bing Crosby, and Rosemary Clooney. Later on, Reprise would also sign a lot of new talent including The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.
And Frank? He became "The Chairman of the Board" and went »
- Glenn Hauman
Movies That Hold Up: 'Friday the 13th'
3 February 2009 2:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
When news broke that a new version of Friday the 13th would be issuing forth from the bowels of the Hollywood studio machinery, I was not terribly distressed. Whatever they want to call it -- remake, sequel, or reboot -- the franchise had been soundly broken and thoroughly devalued for many years. I mean, c'mon: Jason on a boat? Jason in space? Freddy vs. Jason? Talk about flogging a dead horse ... So what's the harm in yet another cynical cash and dash enterprise? Like that would be anything new?
And then I took another look at the original and was surprised at how well it holds up.
Maybe it's because I haven't watched Sean S. Cunningham's film all the way through for many years, so many that I can't honestly recall the last time. I have vivid memories of my first viewing, weeks (or maybe months) after it opened, »
- Peter Martin
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