Photo: Petr Novák, Wikipedia Throughout his career, Czechoslovakian-born filmmaker Milos Forman has combined a unique sensitivity to American themes with the best of European cinematic sensibilities. His films include such successful American releases as ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (1975), HAIR (1979), RAGTIME (1981), ...
"All around me the painters and composers groped for ways to express contemporary society in their work. Where, I wondered, was this parallel activity in theater?" Harold Clurman has been called the most influential figure in the history of the American theater. Between 1935 and ...
Producer and director Jeremy Marre spoke to AMERICAN MASTERS about the making of the film and what he wanted it to reveal about this legendary artist. Q: Why did you select James Brown as the subject for your film? Jeremy Marre: I don't know exactly ...
"As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music." "The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business," "Soul Brother Number One," "the Godfather of Soul," "the Minister of New New Super Heavy Funk" ...
"There was one thing he wanted to do. He didn’t worry about anything else -- as long as he could play that horn." - Jay McShann At age eleven, he had just begun to play the saxophone. At age twenty he was leading a revolution ...
In the early morning hours of March 21, 1999, Hollywood was completing the final preparations for its annual celebration of itself. Workers were laying red carpet and polishing huge statues. Cameramen and reporters jockeyed for position to catch glimpses of Hollywood's royalty as they arrived ...
Gore Vidal (1925-2012) never lacked for labels: Witty, irreverent, and shrewd, a propagandist, a truth-teller, and an agent provocateur. Dramatist, novelist, screenwriter, actor, and public debater. A troublemaker at large, poking his pen at anyone who got in his way. That’s how Vidal seared himself ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer was one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. His writing is a unique blend of religious morality and social awareness combined with an investigation of personal desires. Though his work often took the form of parables or tales based on ...
Tom Manoff, Classical Music Critic of NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on Joni Mitchell Excerpts from his book Music: A Living Language (WW Norton and Co, 1982) I want the full hyphen: folk-rock-country-jazz-classical, so finally when you get all the hyphens in, maybe they'll drop them ...
With his dynamic representations of cowboys and cavalrymen, bronco busters and braves, 19th-century artist Frederic Remington created a mythic image of the American West that continues to inspire America today. His technical ability to reproduce the physical beauty of the Western landscape made him a ...
