"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 Fireball XL5. Dick James, The Beatles’ co-publisher at the time, heard ‘It Was You’ and signed me to his company. ...
Salma Hayek bared it all on screen forFrida, but not out of her own personal desire to be filmed nude. In an op-ed she wrote forThe New York Timesabout Harvey Weinstein, who produced the film, Hayek shared that Weinstein was going to kick her off the set unless “I agreed to do a...
The work could wait, my real place was with Jesus. “Martha’s frustration is typical of those who diligently serve with good intent, but forget to also sit at Jesus’ feet. “The Martha spirit says, if the work is done, is not that all? The Mary spirit asks whether Jesus is well ...
consolidate your memories and form an association between reward as stimuli. Within this disposition, your former life will be released from an eternally humming supply chain. In this headlong rush of time, do not elaborate. Instead, dissolve your new circumstances in the warm paw of morning ...
Take some time to ponder on the work of Christ on the cross for you – His great love and His full obedience to the Father’s will, and write out a psalm of praise and thanksgiving to God. (Do share it here in the comments if you wrote such a praise.) How Deep the Father’s ...
Words are powerful; I just said that. Words set to music — those can be even more. Part of that is simply that words-with-tune lock into our minds like few other things! I still know a couple tunes by the Oak Ridge Boys, from the radio stations of childhood car trips.The first ...
murder in which Roy Radin, one of the film’s financiers, was shot in the head and then blown up with dynamite; testimony from one of the perpetrators later cleared him, but then again, as screenwriter Joe Eszterhas once wrote, “all lies ever told anywhere about Robert Evans are true....
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...
Harrison memorialized on 1969's “Something” and became Harrison's first A-side single with the Beatles after it was released on Abbey Road. It made it to No. 1. In her memoir, Wonderful Tonight, Boyd wrote: “He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me....
Oct. 11: They wrote a book while locked in solitary confinement. Texas won’t let them read it Oct. 12: A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines Oct. 13: A Woman Who Tried to Kill the President Tells Her Story Oct. 16: In a Decade-long ...