Darryl Hall and John Oates were fresh-off-the-plane clueless. It was fall 1971 and they’d come to California seeking the same thing as everyone else who comes to California — for them, it just manifested as a record contract. All they had were their instruments, songs, and a contact at the publishing company Chappell Music. They didn’t even know you needed a car to get around Los Angeles.
“We were kind of stuck,” Oates tells Rolling Stone, remembering how they drifted from hotel to bar to greasy spoon to label lunches that went nowhere.
“We were kind of stuck,” Oates tells Rolling Stone, remembering how they drifted from hotel to bar to greasy spoon to label lunches that went nowhere.
- 7/19/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
On Christmas Eve 1951, NBC aired the very first “Hallmark Hall of Fame” with the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” Rosemary Kuhlman and 12-year-old Chet Allen starred in this Peabody and Christopher Award-winning holiday story of the three Magi who stay with a young physically disabled boy and his widowed mother on their way to Bethlehem to find the Christ child. The presentation was so popular, the cast reprised their roles the following April. The production was done three more times in the 1950s on NBC, but Bill McIver played Amahl because Allen’s voice had changed.
The “Hallmark Hall of Fame,” which would air on NBC, ABC and CBS and is now exclusively on the Hallmark Channel, is the longest-running primetime series in TV history. In the past 70 years it has won over 80 Emmy Awards and dozens of Peabody Awards, Golden Globes,...
The “Hallmark Hall of Fame,” which would air on NBC, ABC and CBS and is now exclusively on the Hallmark Channel, is the longest-running primetime series in TV history. In the past 70 years it has won over 80 Emmy Awards and dozens of Peabody Awards, Golden Globes,...
- 9/13/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Charleston, S.C. — The Spoleto Festival USA opens its 36th season Friday and among the planned performances is an opera by American composer Philip Glass to commemorate his 75th birthday and his long relationship with the internationally known arts festival.
The Charleston festival is staging the American premiere of "Kepler," about the famed German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Only the score has previously been performed in this country.
"We had been talking about various different things and this seemed the most appropriate," said festival General Director Nigel Redden, who first met the composer 40 years ago. "It's the American stage premiere but it's also the premiere of a new version and it's in English. Philip, I think, was anxious to have it done in English to make it more accessible."
Glass has had a long relationship with Spoleto. Among other performances over the years, the first American production of his "Book of Longing,...
The Charleston festival is staging the American premiere of "Kepler," about the famed German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Only the score has previously been performed in this country.
"We had been talking about various different things and this seemed the most appropriate," said festival General Director Nigel Redden, who first met the composer 40 years ago. "It's the American stage premiere but it's also the premiere of a new version and it's in English. Philip, I think, was anxious to have it done in English to make it more accessible."
Glass has had a long relationship with Spoleto. Among other performances over the years, the first American production of his "Book of Longing,...
- 5/20/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The Kennedy Center Honors have been handed out since 1978. Recipients hail from various branches of the American performance art world — including film, stage, music, and dance — even though performers more closely associated with British show business have managed to sneak in every now and then, e.g., Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Pete Townshend. Since recipients are supposed to attend the Washington, D.C., ceremony in order to take home their Kennedy awards, Doris Day has remained unhonored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Katharine Hepburn kept putting it off until she finally relented in 1990. (Irene Dunne, see above photo, was one who managed to be honored though absent due to ill health.) Ginger Rogers, for her part, was present at the ceremony, but her films with Fred Astaire weren't — because Astaire's widow, Robyn Astaire, demanded payment for the televised clips. At the time, Kennedy Center Honors...
- 9/7/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
After a sweet 16 years together, CBS has decided not to renew its relationship with Hallmark for the telefilm franchise "Hall of Fame." This marks the diamond anniversary for the series which first aired in 1951 with "Amahl and the Night Visitors," an opera by Gian Carlo Menotti. Over the decades, the series has won 80 Emmys, nine Golden Globes, 11 Peabodys and four Humanitas awards. "Hall of Fame" was a programming staple on NBC until 1978, then shifted to PBS and ABC before landing at CBS in 1995. Two Sundays back, CBS aired the 243rd "Hallmark Hall of Fame" movie, "Beyond the Blackboard," an inspirational story of a young teacher (Emily VanCamp) who takes homeless children under her wing. In January, the franchise showcased seven-time Emmy champ Betty White in the heartwarming "The Lost Valentine." ...
- 5/6/2011
- Gold Derby
Muszely/Welitsch/Konetzni/Lane/Waechter/Vienna Volksoper Orchestra/Bauer-Theussl
(Arthaus Musik)
Gian Carlo Menotti's emotive 1950 opera about the soul-destroying nature of political bureaucracy is often seen as a cold war period piece, which ducks the complex issues it raises. Menotti always refused to associate the work with a specific political system, and his portrait of Magda Sorel – fleeing from a police state but thwarted by the consulate of the country that supposedly offers asylum – is as critical of the humanitarian failures of western democracies as of the former eastern bloc. This extraordinary film was made for Austrian TV in 1963. Directed by Rudolph Cartier, it's shot in relentless close-ups that give neither the performers nor the viewers anywhere to hide. Melitta Muszely charts Madga's progress from desperation to hope to suicidal despair with uncompromising veracity. There are equally impressive performances from Eberhard Waechter as her husband and Gloria Lane as the consular secretary,...
(Arthaus Musik)
Gian Carlo Menotti's emotive 1950 opera about the soul-destroying nature of political bureaucracy is often seen as a cold war period piece, which ducks the complex issues it raises. Menotti always refused to associate the work with a specific political system, and his portrait of Magda Sorel – fleeing from a police state but thwarted by the consulate of the country that supposedly offers asylum – is as critical of the humanitarian failures of western democracies as of the former eastern bloc. This extraordinary film was made for Austrian TV in 1963. Directed by Rudolph Cartier, it's shot in relentless close-ups that give neither the performers nor the viewers anywhere to hide. Melitta Muszely charts Madga's progress from desperation to hope to suicidal despair with uncompromising veracity. There are equally impressive performances from Eberhard Waechter as her husband and Gloria Lane as the consular secretary,...
- 12/10/2010
- by Tim Ashley
- The Guardian - Film News
American TV personality Gale Storm has died, aged 87.
The actress/singer passed away in hospital on Saturday after battling ill health, according to her son Peter Bonnell.
Storm - born Josephine Owaissa Cottle - shot to fame in 1940 when she entered a talent contest for a radio show called Gateway to Hollywood in 1940.
She won over the radio audience and landed roles in several movies and sang in several Soundies - three-minute musicals.
In 1952 with a starring role in sitcom My Little Margie and went on to bag her own TV series, The Gale Storm Show.
Storm went onto appear in numerous musicals including Gian Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief.
She is survived by her four children, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
The actress/singer passed away in hospital on Saturday after battling ill health, according to her son Peter Bonnell.
Storm - born Josephine Owaissa Cottle - shot to fame in 1940 when she entered a talent contest for a radio show called Gateway to Hollywood in 1940.
She won over the radio audience and landed roles in several movies and sang in several Soundies - three-minute musicals.
In 1952 with a starring role in sitcom My Little Margie and went on to bag her own TV series, The Gale Storm Show.
Storm went onto appear in numerous musicals including Gian Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief.
She is survived by her four children, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
- 6/29/2009
- WENN
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