In researching an upcoming Peter Bradley Adams interview, I learned about the music of Claire Small, and found myself drawn almost immediately to her songwriting and voice (the latter of which reminds me of Shawn Colvin). I love Small’s succinct and effective bio: “Claire Small is living out her musical adventure that includes leaving, losing, loving [...]
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I’m grateful to Robert Feder for pointing out the Washington Post’s January 23 article on the 20-year friendship between Paul Harvey and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Understandably, after gaining access to more than 1,400 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information request, many details are brought to light about the friendship. As noted [...]
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The Criterion Collection–the folks that as they so succinctly put it: “Since 1984 . . . has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements”–now has a YouTube channel. I assume it will be mostly populated with [...]
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Rank Title Weekend Gross
1. AVATAR $36,000,000 $552,797,000
2. LEGION $18,200,000 $18,200,000
3. BOOK OF ELI $17,000,000 $62,003,000
4. TOOTH FAIRY $14,500,000 $14,500,000
5. THE LOVELY BONES $8,800,000 $31,624,000
6. SHERLOCK HOLMES $7,115,000 $191,564,000
7. EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES $7,000,000 $7,000,000
8. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS $6,500,000 [...]
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As damn fine a writer and editor that Deborah Beale is, I consider her equally great as a marketing genius. I’ve written before about some of her and husband/business partner/writer Tad Williams marketing ventures before in this post from last October. I recently joined Twitter (find me here as Talkingwithtim) and have started observing how [...]
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