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...Emperor's Shadow covers some 30 years in the lives of two boys: a sturdy kid who will become the Emperor and his sensitive friend who will become the musician Gao Jianli ? think Jimmy Cagney and Pat O'Brien in Angels With Dirty Faces. Both are suckled by Jianli's mother and raised as brothers. When they're 10, they're separated for pursue their different and colliding destinies. In maturity, the warlord (played with a bull-headed majesty by Jiang Wen, China's leading movie actor) hears than Jianli (Ge You, a stalwart of several Zhang Yimou films...
...murders in particular have galvanized the community. In late December, musician Dinerral Shavers of the Hot 8 Brass Band was shot and killed while riding in a car; police later arrested a 17-year-old who was said to have been involved in a feud with Shavers' stepson. And in the early morning hours of Jan. 4, an intruder shot and killed filmmaker and social activist Helen Hill at her home not far from the French Quarter; Hill's husband Paul Gailiunas, a physician who helped establish a clinic for indigent patients, was injured in the attack and was found...
...press release, Jones himself was mentored by several well-known public figures. At age 15, Jones met jazz piano legend Ray Charles in Seattle, and the two soon became close. In a promotional video for the Harvard Mentoring Project made shortly before Charles’ death, the musician recalled his time with Jones. “You could tell that he wanted to learn, he wanted to know. And because I was able to show him some things, that made me happy, that’s what stirred my heart,” Charles said. Jones himself has been...
...time someone wants to put us in their movie we’re all for it. I love the idea of soundtracks.”Rosenworcel objects to the common criticism that lending music to a commercial project always means selling out.“Are you kidding? Any musician who can find sources of income these days is welcome to pursue that,” he says.“I think that selling out is if you’re cashing in against your own principles,” says Gardner. “But being...
...made heaps of money: but then they croaked. They died untimely deaths and now their songs can be heard behind the suicide sequences of movies like “The Royal Tenenbaums.” These are not, or at least should not be, the career aspirations of any musician, no matter how many women have broken his heart or how much his life resembles a chapter from “Angela’s Ashes...