wrote, produced or animated many productions – both live-action and animated – including Design for Death, which later won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.After the war, Geisel returned to writing children's books, writing classics like If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton ...
Grechen and her equally nice husband and musical partner Barry spent ages after the show conversing and listening with fans and her monthly newsletter is one of my favorite optimistic pick me up reads these days. Die young at an old age. When a pessimist has nothing to worry about he ...
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
Denver had his initial success in music when the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary recorded a song he wrote called, "Leaving on a Jet Plane." The singer-songwriter catapulted into the mainstream with his 1970s hits "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Rocky Mountain High." Birthplace: USA...
Former bandmate Paul McCartney took to Instagram to honor his old friend, writing, "I am very saddened to hear that my ex-bandmate, Denny Laine, has died." "I have many fond memories of my time with Denny: from the early days when The Beatles toured with the Moody Blues....
Who wroteFathers and Sons? Fathers and Sons: Fathers and Sonsfollows the story of Arkady Kirsanov, who after graduating from university, brings a friend with him to visit his father's home. His friend is a nihilist, meaning he questions everything and doesn't accept any principles. This rev...
On the other hand, the chart-type songs I was trying my hand at writing for us to perform were really quite corny." "We recorded my first song, ‘It Was You’, in late 1963 at the home studio of Barry Gray, who wrote music for children’s TV puppet series like Thunderbirds and ...
“All through the gig I was really anxious about playing those songs that Rory wrote, to do him proud in front of his family and the crowd. We were all there because we loved Rory. It felt like I’d been practising for that moment all my life...
The DJ-turned-hitmaker still notched an Oscar nomination, though, thanks to a different Barbie number he co-wrote: the Ryan Gosling-sung "I'm Just Ken." Martin Scorsese Here's a staggering fact: Martin Scorsese, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers in Hollywood history, has ...
As I was preparing today’s blog, I remembered an old 2016 Federal Lawyer column that I wrote when home raids first entered the news. I found an e-interview I did with pro bono attorney Katie Shepherd, who was managing the “CARA” project at family detention centers. At the time, she...