Her portrayal of Ilsa Lund in Casablanca opposite Humphrey Bogart remains one of the most iconic roles in film history. Meanwhile, her performance in Gaslight won her the first of three Academy Awards. Bergman continued to captivate audiences with her performances in The Bells of St. Mary's (...
He had a….as did Pete, you know, it’s the micro-rhythms in them. When I put the band together, you’ve got to remember, the singer never sees the band. He stands in front of them, but all he does is feel them. You feel the syncopation, you feel the symbiotic relationship, b...
'After the Gold Rush' Reprise 'After the Gold Rush' Neil Young (1970):Very much in keeping with his contemporary work with Crosby, Stills and Nash, 'After the Gold Rush' is Young at his singer-songwriter peak. Listen, too, for the placid piano work of a then-unknown Nils Lofgren, la...
At the end of that tour, we got lucky enough to land the Smothers Brothers show that is now legendary where Keith blew up his drum kit and nearly killed Mickey Rooney and Bette Davis, plus all of us in the process. [Laughs] You know, all of the sudden, every youth in America wante...
He had a….as did Pete, you know, it’s the micro-rhythms in them. When I put the band together, you’ve got to remember, the singer never sees the band. He stands in front of them, but all he does is feel them. You feel the syncopation, you feel the symbiotic relationship, ...
Umberto Eco once wrote of Casablanca that it was as if all the clichés got together and staged a joyous reunion. That statement has been applied to Harry Potter and is also true of this book, the first in a trilogy, which is sort of the platonic ideal of what an epic fantasy can and...
My mother was a classical music snob. My first musical memory must be when I put my hand through the mangle of the washing machine. My mother first put Chopin’s Preludes on the record player and then me on her lap. “Listen to that piano playing,” she ordered. ...
Of her Princess Leia character, her low-point was in “Return of the Jedi,” when, as captive of the notorious gangster Jabba the Hutt, Fisher was required to wear a super-revealing gold bikini. “Nearly naked, which is not a style choice for me,” she told NPR earlier this year. “...
In 2006 Temperton explained to the Yorkshire Post the gift that made him a hit machine: “You have to please yourself first. Once you feel the hairs stand up on the back of your hand, you can go for the world. Writing a song is the biggest moment of all. Yesterday it didn’t exist...