The movie was a box office failure and forced Coppola to regroup for the rest of the 1980s, but it’s an artistic triumph — a marvel of visual storytelling that’s deeply romantic, intensely personal, and completely awe-inspiring. A love letter to the old Hollywood studio system, it’s...
had never licensed their music for a soundtrack, but if they were ever going to break the habit, “Almost Famous” seemed like the perfect film to do it with (given that it’s partly based on Crowe’s time on the road with the group). After seeing an early cut of ...
I had never heard of them and could never suspect that a group from a provincial Northern city on the Arctic coast could produce this bold, totally fresh mix of peculiar sounds, wild rhythms, and unbounded free spirit. They seemed like an unlikely combination of what I liked and valued ...
The Musicalepitomises the backstage grit, gumption and glamour that goes into making a theatrical production spectacular spectacular. The show within a show (within an elephant) is the ultimate stagey dream for any theatre fan. Not only do you get to witness the high kicking, high octane, high...
We had three different groups doing what we call fast track arrangements, and for each song we tasked a group of dancers with making a choreo. The songs we did were That’s What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction, Dynamite by Taio Cruz, and Baby by Justin Bieber. After making the ...
and I can easily listen to what I want, not what some disk jockey is putting out there. But I must be honest that if the radio is on, I am usually listening to talk radio; Limbaugh and others. There is such a great group of intelligent commentators out there these days that AM radi...
The Von Trapp Children(Justin, Amanda, Melanie and Sofia, collectively called ‘JAMS’) are an a’capella group and they are direct descendants of the original Von Trapp Family Singers. Their great-grandparents are Capt. Georg Von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead. Their grandfather, ...
God, there is so much horror in this movie. From the hillbilly song“Bill of Sale,”where a terrifying group of mountain folk scream about OWNING a little boy to“In These Hills,”which is just about the various ways they’re going beat up this kid, all of the...
"A Music Hall on Cortland Street" is a part-real/part-fantasy sequence when Steve gets the guts to ask Peggy out and tells her exactly where they're going to have their first dance. The set breaks apart to reveal a period music hall, and the whole ensemble has a group ballroom number...
Of all the responses, only two are still alive and kicking:Last Stop CD Shopwhich has been doing it since the 90s, andErnie Novemberwhich opened in 1983. The Western Mall inSioux Fallswas home to places to buy music over the years (Last Stop started there too). ...