The press release caught my attention when it crossed my desk. Songwriter/Guitarist/Singer Randy Kaplan has a new CD due out May 10th Shake It and Brk It for young adults. It will be the follow-up companion piece to his 2012 Nappa Gold Award winner Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie. Both albums find Mr. Kaplan, an accomplished…
This Month in Film History – April 11, 1973: Ingmar Bergman Starts TV Film About Something He is Clueless About – Marriage
When you hear about of a three hour TV film entitled Scenes From a Marriage, your mind, no doubt, hones in on the late 1970s and Woody Allen. No doubt about it, right? Scenes From a Marriage was something Woody did with long time common- law wife Mia Farrow? Instead, it would come from the…
No “Curse of Bambino?”: How the Boston Red Sox Made Rival NY Yankees Greatest Team Ever
A hundred years on and fans of the Boston Red Sox still rue that cold day in December 1919′. It was the day after Christmas. Baseball was tucked away for the winter. Still, it was in the thoughts on foremost on the minds of the lucky future Red Sox who hoped that Santa would hear…
This Month in Music History – March 21, 1966: Beach Boys Record “Sloop John B”
Th e Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds found head writer Brian Wilson at his creative zenith. One listen to the album bears this out. Wilson was not only making good, toe tapping tunes, he was also crafting surprisingly complex pieces that plagued Wilson’s band mates as to how they would play them live. It…
Jamie Lee Curtis’s 5 Sexiest Scenes
Cinema is the most visual of the arts. While images power it, as they do with static photograpy, more goes into and can wrong with the 3D world than 1D. In the 1D world, the artist is the god. Throughout is evolution from concept to realization, they remain in total control over the image and…
The 100 Greatest Funny People in Entertainment History #100-91
Comedy, as an art form, has never reached the appreciation it deserves. The difficulty of writing it has been well documented by an assundry of learned people throughout the annals of time. The great Punic, between Carthage and Rome couldn’t come together on whether Plato was a better philosopher or insult comic. Of course, that…
This Month in Film History – March 29, 1976: Beloved Comedian George Burns Wins Oscar At Age of 80
It’s not often that comedies win awards, especially Academy Awards. For whatever reason, comedy has never garnered much respect from neither critic nor peers of the entertainment community. Usually, it is a small, cult of fans that rise up and preserve the comedian from a legacy of ignominy. Such was not the case for George…
