Bobby Brown struggles with daughter's death in biopic taping
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 11:32
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
— Bobby Brown often broke into tears as he watched scenes being filmed involving his daughter's death for his upcoming biopic. "You never really get over it," he said about the death of...
Josh Rouse's cool tunes survey scenes of modern love
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 11:23
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Josh Rouse, "Love In The Modern Age" (Yep Roc Records) Josh Rouse says his new album was inspired by Leonard Cohen, The Blue Nile, 1980s Roxy Music and Prefab Sprout, but it's safe to say there's...
'Chappaquiddick' examines the ripples of a scandal
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 10:47
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Ambiguous and damning at once, John Curran's "Chappaquiddick" plunges us back into the summer of 1969: the season of Woodstock, the moon landing, the Manson murders and the lowest ebb of the Kennedy...
Book on film 'Giant' a window into 1950s Hollywood
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 10:17
Last update: about 10 years ago
"Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film" (St. Martin's Press), by Don Graham No matter what you think of the 1956 epic "Giant"...
Andie MacDowell says it's time for men to 'drop the towel'
Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 11:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
In "The Beach House," Andie MacDowell plays a warm-hearted widow, Lovie, who's devoted to her grown (but still growing up) children and another vulnerable brood, the sea turtles that nest near her...
Why do only some people get 'skin orgasms' from listening to music?
Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 11:21
Last update: about 10 years ago
The Conversation
Have you ever been listening to a great piece of music and felt a chill run up your spine? Or goosebumps tickle your arms and shoulders? The experience is called frisson (pronounced free-sawn), a...
Boy meets horse in the unsentimental 'Lean on Pete'
Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 10:24
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
There is painfully little love, except for the warm and compassionate filmmaking itself, in Andrew Haigh's tender and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama "Lean on Pete." In his first American film,...
Berenice Abbott's remarkable life in photography
Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 10:16
Last update: about 10 years ago
"Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography" (W.W. Norton), by Julia Van Haaften The word gutsy doesn't even begin to describe the great 20th-century photographer Berenice Abbott. Nor does brilliant,...
Three recitals by the Hasselby Motet Choir, Sweden
Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 15:47
Last update: about 10 years ago
After it's highly successful collaboration with the Rotondo Choir from Poznan, Poland, for the highly acclaimed premiere of Mark Agius' Messa Da Requiem at St John's Co-Cathedral last March, the...