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...started his own record label (Dark Horse, in 1974) and his own movie-production company, HandMade Films, which he set up to help his pal Eric Idle finish his Monty Python film Life of Brian. Other HandMade productions included the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits and the 1986 noirish drama Mona Lisa, which launched actor Bob Hoskins. Harrison's cinema dabblings also included a cameo in Idle's faux rockumentary All You Need Is Cash, about the Rutles--the "Prefab Four." According to George, the parody told the Beatles story "much better than the usual boring documentary...
...started his own record label (Dark Horse, in 1974) and his own movie-production company, HandMade Films, which he set up to help his pal Eric Idle finish his Monty Python film Life of Brian. Other HandMade productions included the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits and the 1986 noirish drama Mona Lisa, which launched actor Bob Hoskins. Harrison's cinema dabblings also included a cameo in Idle's faux rockumentary All You Need Is Cash, about the Rutles - the "Prefab Four." According to George, the parody told the Beatles story "much better than the usual boring documentary...
...decades, avant-garde art and rock and roll strove towards the common goal of social and political upheaval. Even prior to the creation of rock and roll, music and revolutionary art have made natural bedfellows. Five years before Marcel Duchamp drew a goatee on the Mona Lisa, Luigi Russolo and Babilla Pratella were accompanying traditional music with an orchestra and Pratella was accompanying traditional music with an orchestra of “Bruiteurs” that interrupted traditional compositions with grunts and hisses. The Bruiteurs shared the revolutionary spirit of the Dadaists, who believed that traditional cultural institutions, symbolic...
DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, pop composer; in Los Angeles. In the 1940s and '50s, with collaborator Ray Evans (standing), he wrote songs for more than 80 movies, including the Academy Award-winning tunes Que Sera, Sera, Buttons and Bows and Mona Lisa, which was not a love song at all but a coded message in a World War II movie. The classic Christmas song that became Silver Bells started out as Tinkle Bells until Livingston was advised by his wife to change it. It was known around the Livingston home as "the annuity." Later, the duo wrote theme music...
...WITH YOUR STRENGTHS Tom Mesereau, 42, joined his wife Mona, 40, in the public-relations business in 1997, after her nine-month-old company began booming and she needed a partner to help handle the workload. Both had experience in marketing and public relations, but Tom had more background in computers and graphics, so he took on those tasks. The two run their business out of the basement of their Parker, Colo., home, with their kids--Michael, 12, and Mariah, 10--never very far away. "I had enough security and confidence in myself to be able to sit back...