Критики обвинили режиссера в дискриминации темнокожих из-за отсутствия темнокожих актеров в новом мюзикле Вуди Аллена, театральной адаптации фильма 1994 года «Пули над Бродвеем». В нем рассказывалась история молодого талантливого драматурга, которому не хватало денег на постановку своей пьесы.
Писателю помогает гангстер из Нью-Йорка, ставя при этом одно условие. На главную роль драматург должен будет взять свою подружку, у которой совершенно нет таланта актрисы.
Эта криминальная комедия была номинирована на премию Оскар в шести категориях.
Представители СМИ напомнили, что действие картины частично происходит в одном из ночных клубов Гарлема, где в 20-х годах основными посетителями были именно темнокожие гангстеры.
Кроме того, в одном из бродвейских проектов «After Midnight», где действие происходит в том же клубе, все роли исполняли афроамериканцы, oднако этот факт не был воспринят СМИ как
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Perhaps for most people, upon the mention of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan immediately comes to mind. But besides Dylan, much more came out of Greenwich Village. Would you believe Maya Angelou sang blues there? By her own admission, not very well. But the artists and movements that came out of that "most significant square mile in American cultural history” are incredible and prolific. To get into everything notable that came out of there would fill a book; and has many, of course. The significance is so extensive and broad. the artists and movements that came out of that "most significant square mile in American cultural history” are incredible and prolific.
Greenwich has been described as "the place where everything happens first.” The setting and people who came
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Interview Date: Monday Feb 24 @ 7 pm EST (4 pm PST) (Podcast Length: 30:40)
Special Guest: Sam Andrew (Part 1 of 2) -helped define San Francisco’s psychedelic rock scene in a pivotal time in US history. Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin along with other bands like The Mama’s and Papa’s, the Grateful Dead and The Jefferson Airplane captured both the media attention as well as the world’s imagination during the 1960’s Hippie Era. Together Sam Roberts and working partner Janis Joplin gave a voice to the counter culture attitudes and anti-establishment sentiments that
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Why was the book written was to set the record straight? This is important because at one time post Jim Morrison there was a a harmony between Manzarek, Kreiger and my guest….like a spear they blazed through and became a band of melodic invention with studio cats like Ray Neopolitan Charles Lloyd, Bobbye Porter Hall and all the other ships with sails. Who do you think scouted this talent? Who do think was inside the Hollywood studios banging on vibes with Emil Richards or brought Harvey Brooks on a brief tour when Manzerek couldn’t handle the bass lines ….my guest.
This unison was channeled in a metaphysical sense from Maharisi Maresh Yogi who helped youthful rebels like my guest elevate to transcendental consciousness.
He visited the states often, held seminars, was connected to his students in the most intimate fashion this with the spawning of legal LSD created by our government and lackadaisical music executives allowed for humanity to grow and the
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Earlier this month Paul and Ringo Starr took to the stage together for the CBS TV Special 'The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute to The Beatles'.
The show also featured performances from Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry, Joe Walsh, Dhani Harrison, John Legend and many others. The full collection of photos is now available on www.PaulMcCartney.com
Click to view HERE: http://bit.ly/CBS_GRAMMYs_Collection
December 8, 1970 - On his birthday, Jim Morrison rented several hours of studio time at Village Recorders to record his poetry. He invited his friends Frank&Kathy Lisciandro as well as Alan Ronay to attend and participate in the session. Portions of this session were used in the 1979 release, "An American Prayer".
The building itself was built in the 1920s as a Masonic Temple. In the 1960s it was used by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as his Los Angeles center for Transcendental Meditation. Soon after that, it was converted into a recording studio. It was one of the first 24-track studios in Los Angeles. Although there have been major renovations since then, it is still the same state-of-the-art recording studio that Jim recorded in 40+ years ago.
John Densmore of The Doors (Interview) Posted by Paul Gleason on Feb 04, 2014 Leave a Comment -
Doors’ drummer John Densmore is many things: the co-writer of some of the most iconic songs in the history of rock, a political activist, author of two compelling memoirs (Riders on the Storm and The Doors Unhinged), and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In an era in which many rock musicians of his generation have succumbed to what Densmore has elsewhere called the "greed gene,” he provides a shining example of integrity. In fact, his must-read book, The Doors Unhinged, chronicles this integrity by demonstrating the way in which he and the Jim Morrison estate went through an extensive court battle with Doors’ keyboardist, the late Ray Manzarek, and guitar
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Garp grows up, becoming interested in wrestling and fiction writing, topics his mother has little interest in. However, his writing piques the interest of the daughter of the school's wrestling coach, Helen Holm. She is wary of him, however, because Garp is quite promiscuous. Jenny also observes Garp's behavior in this regard and is intellectually curious about it, having little more than clinical interest in sex herself. She offers to procure a prostitute for Garp, and - after engaging the two of them in conversation on the subject - decides to write a book on her observations of lust and human sexuality.
In Ruby Sparks, Paul Dano’s misfit novelist dates his own creation
It’s one of the most cherished legends of the American indie: A socially retarded ugly duck, despite making no eff ort to regulate his glaring emotional hang-ups, is discovered as a swan by a clearly out-of-his-league girl who loves him just the way he is. Buff alo ’66 (1999) and Punch-Drunk Love (2002) are the best-known examples of the spaz wish-fulfillment romance, but the last decade-plus has brought many also-rans, like the toxic Gigantic, starring Paul Dano.
It is appropriate, then, that Dano should star in Ruby Sparks, a loser love story that is also a moral-fable critique of the same.Dano plays Calvin, a one-hit novelist struggling through two dry spells. As his claim-to-fame tome
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