Review: City Lights pours a refreshing snifter of snark into its holiday show
Mercury News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
In the two-person musical 'Another Night Before Christmas,' Santa is not above a little breaking and entering.
Mercury News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
In the two-person musical 'Another Night Before Christmas,' Santa is not above a little breaking and entering.
BestCovery (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
This soundtrack to the classic 1964 Rankin/Bass Christmas special, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, is full of holiday songs that have been forever burned into the craniums of several generations. Sung by venerable pop/folk vocalist Burl Ives and others, these are the Christmas tunes that countless American kids grew up with, and they can still bring a warm Yuletide glow into even the Grinchiest of...
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The Fantastic Mr Fox soundtrack. Wes Anderson loves quirk. Enigmatic characters with deadpan stares, talking – and talking, and talking, and talking. With wry postmodern self-awareness. Steve Zissou. Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore. The Tenenbaums. Quirk up to the eyeballs. And…
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
THE POWER AND THE PRIZE is a film about corporate warfare mixed with romance, in the tradition of other mid-'50s business-themed films such as EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954) and WOMAN'S WORLD (1954). Cliff Barton (Robert Taylor) is the righthand man of George Salt (Burl Ives), chairman of Amalgamated World Metals. Cliff, as Salt's heir apparent, is also engaged to marry Salt's young niece Joanie (Nicola Michaels)....
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Visually and conceptually, Fantastic Mr. Fox doesn’t remotely resemble anything Wes Anderson has tackled before: It’s a manic kids’ movie, it’s stop-motion animated, and it’s his first film based on an outside source—a minor story by Charlie And The Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl. But if viewers close their eyes even for a moment, they’ll immediately know...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The soundtrack of Fantastic Mr. Fox, like all Wes Anderson films, is loaded with great music that punctuate the situations. Anyone who combines Burl Ives, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and the Wellingtons’ classic Ballad of Davy Crockett in one film is okay in my book. Anderson also pays homage to Disney’s foxy Robin [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Music Choice®, the award-winning, multi-platform video and music network, kicks off the holiday season by offering non-stop holiday music on two of its popular music channels. Traditional holiday music from artists like Bing Crosby, Elvis, Nat King Cole, and Burl Ives is now available 24/7 on Music Choice’s Sounds of the Seasons channel through January 6th. An up-tempo...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Just in case you didn't get your fill of candy. MP3 File yousendit
Teaser-Trailer.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
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The Common Room (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
A lavish instrumental version, also from Disney: My favorite remains Burl Ives. How about you? -----------------------------
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Jarvis Cocker's in banjo wrangling, jaw harp twanging mode for "Fantastic Mr. Fox AKA Petey's Song," a playful song about vittles and the handsome little fox in Wes Anderson's Roald Dahl-inspired, Videogum-beloved Fantastic Mr. Fox . Cocker voices Petey in the film, and that's your first look at him above. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray also voice the stop-motion...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
A poem can alter the past or at least one’s memories, and I suspect paintings and photographs possess similar magic. Here’s an example: Anthony Hecht’s “Memory” from The Light and the Darkness , his final book of poems, published three years before his death in 2004: “Sepia oval portraits of the family, Black framed, adorned the small brown-papered hall, But the...
Rude Cactus (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Weekly Celebration . Our tenth wedding anniversary! Go us! The Weekly Time Waster . The Virtual Piano . The Weekly Read . I love Chuck Klosterman. Not in that way. I just think his writing is good. His pop culture-focused essays are fantastic and his observations never cease to be insightful and inspired. So I was really curious what he'd do in his first foray into fiction - Downtown Owl . I wasn't...
jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Literature is a hair crown, a temporal decoration used for the inner spaces whose outer silence is sometimes read by ladies or men of the drawing room as rudeness. We need something to say, something to think, or even do. Literature is a hair crown, a method of giving these odd vegetables of the celestium something to quod in the long unglittering hall, in the architectural stupor that is boxing with...