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January 3, 2021
... of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom before beginning work on the movie. "I rather made it a point not to do too much ... production designer explained. "I was given a script, and the script was different (from the stage version). I ... opening montage, a variety of stages where Rainey and her band performed. "I really did think about the fact that the ...
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September 19, 2022
... L.A. stations beamed their broadcast signals through the clear-blue California air. By 2019, when she logged her final TV appearance — on a streaming service — White capped a career of more than seventy years. But even her hundreds of credits and dozens of awards were outmatched by the love of her ...
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June 6, 2019
... Marcelo Zarvos fell in love with music while watching the scores of 1970s and '80s films. Blade Runner was a favorite, as was pretty ... years, his musical talents led him to join an '80s pop band that ended up recording and touring all over Brazil. ...
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December 21, 2022
"Black is in," The New York Times proclaimed in March 1990, as the film ... Movies like New Jack City , House Party , Soul Food and Waiting to Exhale were exploring various themes, but ... Howard). As unremarkable as it sounds today, seeing this band of affluent brothers work through relationships and ...
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July 15, 2021
... in musical productions. His first big break came as the role of the disciple Judas in the stage musical Jesus ... comedy musical Schmigadoon! is a far cry from the serious and macabre atmosphere that encompassed Jesus Christ ... production of Dreamgirls , was a lead singer in his own band, and even sang back-up vocals for Canadian rock and ...
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January 8, 2018
Volumes have been written about how computers, the internet, the spread of cable television and ever smaller and more agile video equipment have ... Up with the Kardashians, The Simple Life, Making the Band ), others that came and went in the blink of a network ...
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April 10, 2020
Paul Leonard-Morgan and Philip Glass started scoring Amazon's science-fiction series Tales from the Loop before a single scene was filmed. "I don't think ... I'm not Philip Glass." Each took the other's work and played off the ideas to create something fresh between them, ...
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March 8, 2011
Eddie Brandt, a composer and songwriter who also achieved renown as the founder and proprietor of a Los Angeles films and ... taught himself to play the piano and started his first band, Eddie Brandt and the Hollywood Hicks, while serving in ...
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May 15, 2019
When Starz decided to create original programming for the Latinx audience, one of the first people senior ... Fernandez reached out to was Tanya Saracho, a playwright and writing veteran of shows such as HBO's Looking and ABC's ... places — including Instagram, where she found the band San Cha y Las Sirenas. "Have you ever seen Buzzfeed ...
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March 10, 2020
"The rhythm of life is a powerful beat," sang the cast of ... worlds away from musical theater, also knows that rhythm, and it has helped him through life, both personally and ... and things with friends and we pretended that we were in a band. "And I look back now and the poetry of those things are ...