March 30, 2011 The Dark Side of the Rainbow (YouTube)
We played half of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon as our March Album Side Sunday last weekend and hearing "The Great Gig in the Sky" reminded me of trying the Dark Side of the Rainbow.
Dark Side of the Rainbow is created by playing the Da
March 29, 2011 Eric Idle from Monty Python's Flying Circus and John Popper, singer and harmonica player for Blues Traveler, were both born on a March 29th.
British-born Idle wrote for and performed with Monty
March 24, 2011 Movie and comic book fans are being treated to the full-length trailer for Marvel’s hotly anticipated film Captain America: The First Avenger.
The brand-new preview offers a better glimpse of the story which follows Steve Rogers, played by Chris Evans, a scrawny Army recruit who participates in an experimental program that transforms his body and allows him to become Captain America.
The trailer also shows a bit more of Captain America’s ne
March 23, 2011 Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, was one of Hollywood’s most famous and popular stars, with roles in such classic movies as ‘Giant,’ ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ and ‘A Place in the Sun
March 18, 2011 Movie titles aren’t just picked out of hat, it turns out. In fact, they almost always have something to do with the movie itself (they do indeed go back to the future in “Back to the Future”)
March 9, 2011 On the upcoming National Geographic Channel show “How Hard Can It Be,” which will premier this fall, a bunch of crazy dreamers recreate the scene in the animated Disney movie “Up” in which helium-filled party balloons lift a house high in the air
February 26, 2011 The 83rd Annual Academy Awards air on ABC Sunday, February 27th.
This year's co-hosts are Anne Hathaway and James Franco. The film with the most nominations is The K
February 24, 2011 At this Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony trophies will be passed out to some of the lesser known artists who make a big impact on the movies we watch, the Foley artists and sound engineers.
During the production of a movie the actors are miked to catch all of their dialogue but almost all of the background sounds are not recorded at that time, they are added in later
February 16, 2011 You may not recognize the name but I'm sure you've seen or heard some of the characters that actor Kenneth Mars created over the years. He had a German accent in two of Mel Brook's funniest fi
February 1, 2011 Can you name the actors and actresses in this picture? I could only identify five of them including the bald bartender in the back. It's the cover of Vanity Fair magazine's annual Hollywood issue.
January 27, 2011 The Sundance Film Festival wraps this weekend in Park City, Utah and the movie that caught my attention features music of Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield and the Grateful Dead. Even the title of the film is a Grateful Dead song The Music Never Stopped
December 16, 2010 The man who directed some of my favorite films, Blake Edwards, died today at the age of 88 of pneumonia in Santa Monica. He was the director of seven of the Pink Panther movies, I didn't even realize there had been that many
