Although the PyeongChang Winter Olympics unofficially kick off mid-week with several events — and NBC’s live coverage begins Thursday evening — the ceremonial start of the highly anticipated Games begin at 6 a.m. E.T. with the opening ceremony.
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Cold
Forecasters are predicting a possible record-setting chill, with real-feel temperatures as low as 7 degrees Fahrenheit at the open-air PyeongChang Olympic Stadium, which sits nearly a half-mile above the Sea of Japan and gets blasted with Siberian winds from the north. Organizers are so worried about spectators’ safety that they’ll be handing out poncho-style windbreakers,...
Here are some things to watch for:
Cold
Forecasters are predicting a possible record-setting chill, with real-feel temperatures as low as 7 degrees Fahrenheit at the open-air PyeongChang Olympic Stadium, which sits nearly a half-mile above the Sea of Japan and gets blasted with Siberian winds from the north. Organizers are so worried about spectators’ safety that they’ll be handing out poncho-style windbreakers,...
- 2/8/2018
- by Kurt Pitzer
- PEOPLE.com
Celebrity Fight Night announced today that the legendary Sir Elton John and the world-renowned tenor, Andrea Bocelli, will take the stage at the historic Colosseum in Rome on Friday, September 8th for a special musical event as part of this year’s “Celebrity Fight Night in Italy.”
The newly announced gala concert will also feature performances by musical icons such as Steven Tyler and David Foster. The 4th Annual “Celebrity Fight Night in Italy” is a 7-day experience in Rome, where philanthropic donors and special guests can enjoy the most magical places in and around the capital city. Funds raised benefit both the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center. Celebrity Fight Night, a star-studded annual charity event, has raised over $132 million for many charities throughout its 23-year history, most significantly for the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Az.
“Celebrity Fight Night in Italy” kicks off on Tuesday,...
The newly announced gala concert will also feature performances by musical icons such as Steven Tyler and David Foster. The 4th Annual “Celebrity Fight Night in Italy” is a 7-day experience in Rome, where philanthropic donors and special guests can enjoy the most magical places in and around the capital city. Funds raised benefit both the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center. Celebrity Fight Night, a star-studded annual charity event, has raised over $132 million for many charities throughout its 23-year history, most significantly for the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Az.
“Celebrity Fight Night in Italy” kicks off on Tuesday,...
- 9/7/2017
- Look to the Stars
Each year, the Oscar producers try to figure out what to do with the Best Song category, and who should take the stage, and this year, they stepped right into controversy. Even with the talk about diversity swirling from every corner, the show decided to cut performances by the Anonhi, the first trans nominee ever, but also by South Korean soprano Sumi Jo, leading to the former to decline her invitation. But the show soldiered on... Read More: The 5 Best Oscar Ceremony Musical Performances And 5 Terrible Ones The winner for Best Song, Sam Smith, belted out "Writing's On The Wall" from "Spectre," reminding everyone how long those opening credits to the movie were, and then was immediately taken to task for getting it wrong that he's the first gay Oscar winner, and for uh, texting Dustin Lance Black's fiancé. The Weekend seemed to step into the world of Cirque...
- 2/29/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
First of all, I'm very happy that my favorite film of the year, Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight," wins big at the 88th Academy Awards! I was losing hope after "The Big Short" won the Producers Guild Award and "The Revenant" zoomed onto the frontrunner status!
But no. At the night of the Oscars, "Spotlight" won two major awards including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay!
Kudos to McCarthy and team!
My heart felt "Spotlight" would win but my mind said "The Revenant." See? The heart always wins!
Now, onto the show itself. I thought Chris Rock did a good job in softening the #OscarsSoWhite controversy! But the show itself? A bit of a bore. It felt long! Not quite the 4 hours and 23 minutes of the 74th Oscars but long nonetheless.
And really? Only Sam Smith, The Weeknd, and Lady Gaga were invited to perform the Best Original Song nominees? What...
But no. At the night of the Oscars, "Spotlight" won two major awards including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay!
Kudos to McCarthy and team!
My heart felt "Spotlight" would win but my mind said "The Revenant." See? The heart always wins!
Now, onto the show itself. I thought Chris Rock did a good job in softening the #OscarsSoWhite controversy! But the show itself? A bit of a bore. It felt long! Not quite the 4 hours and 23 minutes of the 74th Oscars but long nonetheless.
And really? Only Sam Smith, The Weeknd, and Lady Gaga were invited to perform the Best Original Song nominees? What...
- 2/29/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
We have just over 48 hours to go until the Oscars, and the diversity controversy is not going away. Al Sharpton is planning to lead a protest on Sunday night near the Dolby Theater before the show begins, while the decision by the producers to cut Best Original Song performances by Antony Hegarty (a.k.a. Anohni, the first transgender nominee ever) and South Korean soprano Sumi Jo, yet add Dave Grohl to the program, have the led to further outrage (read Hegarty's letter about why she's boycotting the show here). And that's only the most recent controversy. When the Oscar nominations were first announced, "Carol" landed six nods in some key categories, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Adapted Screenplay. However, the film's director, Todd Haynes, missed out, and the movie didn't land in the Best Picture field either. Read More: The Best Performances By The 2016 Oscar Nominees Speaking recently with.
- 2/26/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The Academy Awards have just erased the silver lining of an awards season that has been rightfully dominated by stories of omission and institutional injustice.
Lost in the justifiable furor over #OscarsSoWhite is the fact that a transgender person has received an Academy Award nomination for the first time since songwriter Angela Morley earned two in the mid-Seventies. Mercury Prize-winning musician Anohni (née Antony Hegarty) has been recognized for her song "Manta Ray," the J. Ralph duet she was commissioned to co-write and perform for the climate crisis documentary Racing Extinction.
Lost in the justifiable furor over #OscarsSoWhite is the fact that a transgender person has received an Academy Award nomination for the first time since songwriter Angela Morley earned two in the mid-Seventies. Mercury Prize-winning musician Anohni (née Antony Hegarty) has been recognized for her song "Manta Ray," the J. Ralph duet she was commissioned to co-write and perform for the climate crisis documentary Racing Extinction.
- 2/25/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Pharrell, Lady Gaga, the Weeknd and Sam Smith are all set to appear at this year's Oscars, which will also feature a "special performance" from Dave Grohl, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The latest list of presenters and performers also includes last year's Best Song winners John Legend and Common, as well as Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, Sacha Baron Cohen, Morgan Freeman and Henry Cavill.
A current list of everyone set to appear at the 88th Academy Awards is available on the Oscars' website. Of the musicians named,...
The latest list of presenters and performers also includes last year's Best Song winners John Legend and Common, as well as Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, Sacha Baron Cohen, Morgan Freeman and Henry Cavill.
A current list of everyone set to appear at the 88th Academy Awards is available on the Oscars' website. Of the musicians named,...
- 2/18/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Paolo Sorrentino makes movies the way musicians create music—lingering themes swirl together with short spurts of philosophical flirtation and bawdy jokes, placid imagery routinely collides with florid representation and the occasional heavily laden visual metaphor. But they also have an ephemeral quality which suggests a certain resistance to the rigidity of interpretation, that the experience of the way the images and sounds come together (or don’t) is the primary attraction. And it’s all seemingly colored by an underlying suspicion that whether it’s the devil or the divine in the details, to resist luxuriating in them would be to risk missing the overarching emotional pull Sorrentino’s movies are capable of, which for all their intellectual dabbling is what ends up being their most potent and meaningful quality.
A movie like The Great Beauty seems itself to sing, its techno-blasted party-at-the-edge-of-eternity vibe in contrapuntal balance with the...
A movie like The Great Beauty seems itself to sing, its techno-blasted party-at-the-edge-of-eternity vibe in contrapuntal balance with the...
- 12/4/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Polish composer of film music best known for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Death and the Maiden, and The Pianist
Very few 20th-century classical composers set out with the intention of writing music for films. Wojciech Kilar, who has died of cancer aged 81, was no exception. Would he ever have dreamed, when he was studying composition in Poland, that he would later go on to score more than 100 films and build his reputation on that body of work rather than in the concert hall? It took Kilar more than 30 years of composing music for Polish films before he became internationally recognised because of his creepy score for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The acclaim that Kilar accrued from his music for Coppola's pyrotechnical horror movie led to work on other widely shown English-language films, such as Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and three by Polish-born Roman Polanski...
Very few 20th-century classical composers set out with the intention of writing music for films. Wojciech Kilar, who has died of cancer aged 81, was no exception. Would he ever have dreamed, when he was studying composition in Poland, that he would later go on to score more than 100 films and build his reputation on that body of work rather than in the concert hall? It took Kilar more than 30 years of composing music for Polish films before he became internationally recognised because of his creepy score for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The acclaim that Kilar accrued from his music for Coppola's pyrotechnical horror movie led to work on other widely shown English-language films, such as Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and three by Polish-born Roman Polanski...
- 1/7/2014
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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