Since Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA started chopping up samples and making hip-hop beats on a drum machine nearly 40 years ago, he’s been pulling inspiration from a variety of musical genres and mediums, ranging from […]
John Carpenter doesn’t get the hype around Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer. “Oppenheimer was OK. It was alright,” the Master of Horror said in an interview for music journalist Larry Fitzmaurice’s Last Donut of the Night newsletter. […]
Bradley Cooper‘s pursuit of recognition in Hollywood and his recent Oscars disappointment are reportedly straining his romance with model Gigi Hadid. According to reports, interference from Cooper’s mother also adds to the strain. However, the […]
The 96th Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, took place on Sunday, March 10, 2024. The prestigious event was held at the world-famous Dolby Theatre in Ovation Hollywood. The cinematic year spanning from 2023 […]
2024 Oscar Snubs: Killers of the Flower Moon & Maestro ( Photo Credit – IMDb ) The 2024 Oscar saw Oppenheimer bag seven awards, including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Picture. Poor Things won […]
You can probably sum it all up in just one word: Barbenheimer. It’s not a word found in Webster’s, but one that’s instantly recognizable to movie fans and everyone in all areas of the entertainment […]
Getty Image Bradley Cooper is up for a bevy of awards at this year’s Oscars thanks to his work on the Netflix film Maestro. Given the number of categories he’s nominated in (although he’s not expected […]
The Oscar-nominated actor shares daughter, Lea, 6, with ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk. Bradley Cooper is getting candid about fatherhood. While appearing on Dax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast, the Maestro star opened up about how welcoming now-6-year-old […]
And “The Actor” goes to… The 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards are finally here. After a wild 2023 — which saw SAG and the Writers Guild both strike — the actors union will celebrate achievements […]
It should have been an easy job for the sound team of “Maestro” — Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony played in England’s Ely Cathedral. Normally they would pre-record the music and run playback while musicians and conductor […]
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. This week, Helen Mirren at the American Cinematheque Awards, the history-making connection between Godzilla Minus One and Stanley Kubrick, plus live on stage with Maestro […]
Controversial fake rubber noses aside, Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro is one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year, and is currently nominated for seven Academy Awards. But just think of how many more Oscars it […]
Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony orchestra for nearly 30 years. Boston Symphony Orchestra hide caption toggle caption Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony orchestra for nearly 30 years. Boston Symphony Orchestra […]
George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. PhotoQuest / Contributor/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption PhotoQuest / […]
I’m not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which premiered 100 years ago this week, from start to finish. Snippets had played throughout the soundtrack of my life as a […]
This year’s lead actor Oscar contenders have education in common. They all are either teachers or on the fringes of the education system. — Carla Meyer 2 Nominees Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright play similarly […]
Back in 2018, Bradley Cooper pitched “Maestro” to Carey Mulligan over coffee at Manhattan’s Cafe Cluny. The film, which he would direct, co-write, produce and star in was about Leonard Bernstein, the legendary conductor-composer who […]
George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. PhotoQuest / Contributor/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption PhotoQuest / […]
Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony orchestra for nearly 30 years. Boston Symphony Orchestra hide caption toggle caption Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony orchestra for nearly 30 years. Boston Symphony Orchestra […]
Never say never to Josh Singer, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who spent 10 years in an effort to bring Leonard Bernstein’s life to the big screen. Along the way he worked with some very big names […]