Word: eccentricism
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From the start, Morricone used eccentric instrumentation--not just humble toys like the harmonica and ocarina and panpipes but typewriters and tin cans--that, coupled with his profligate melodic gift, gave his films a gorgeous dissonance.
After changing everyone’s lives (thanks, Natalie Portman), James Mercer and his Portland posse are back. The Shins, whose jangly melodies and eccentric poetry became all too well-known with a double appearance on the “Garden State” soundtrack, now experiment with a more...
Or, surveying this bleak terrain, the Academy membership might turn to the one feel-good movie nominated for Best Picture. Voting for a comedy that celebrates life - eccentric but essentially loving family life - would be an affirmation of what Hollywood has done since its Golden Age: try to make America...
He has played a seasoned cop and an eccentric attorney, but for many people, William Shatner will always be a fearless space explorer from a long-gone TV series--a role he is now handing off to another actor. Shortly after Shatner, 75, was inducted into the Academy of Television...
He says he is the kind of guy who likes to "stir things up." No one who has marveled at the freewheeling and shrewdly eccentric career of H. (for Henry) Ross Perot will argue with that description. The blunt-spoken, impulsive founder of Electronic Data Systems, who managed last week...