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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

58th Anniversary of The Day The Music Died

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"The Day the Music Died" (Behind the Music) documentary: The true story of the Plane Crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, R...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Mad as Hell: Christine Chubbock and The Making of 'Network' (Paddy Chayefsky's Masterpiece)

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Christine Chubbuck’s sad exit is said to have partly inspired Paddy Chayefsky during the writing of his screenplay for the 1976 film Netwo...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Oscars Nominations 2017

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BEST PICTURE Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester By the Sea Moonlight BEST CINEMATOGRAPH...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Till the End of Time, Permissive Turn in the Fifties

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Till the End of Time (1946) is in many ways a sad film, also inspiring and deeply touching. Star Guy Madison made his screen debut in S...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

La La Land & Buddy Holly: American Mythologies

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Both La La Land and Chazelle’s earlier film Whiplash (2014) play in American mythologies of success. In Whiplash a young musician at a to...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Buddy Holly and Carl Perkins: the Father of Rock and the King of Rockabilly

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Coming soon at the Paramount Theatre: • Dance Party : A tribute to Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens featuring Elvis and Mar...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

R.I.P. Tommy Allsup, Buddy Holly's final tour survivor

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Guitarist Tommy Allsup lost a coin toss to teenage star Ritchie Valens, who died with Holly in the subsequent air crash. Allsup, who went...