I grew up in the days when musicals were as or more popular than any other form of cinema, and the stars of musicals on stage and screen were huge draws on Sunday night’s Ed Sullivan.
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Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s of Rock’n’Roll – Catching Some ZZZ’s
Posted in Opinion with tags Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Hot Docs, music, music videos, Purple Rain, Records, Rock Lobster, Songs with numbers in the title, The Bovine, Tiki Bar, Toronto on April 17, 2014 by segarini
Yes I was asleep at the wheel last week and could not get my column in by deadline. It is a very busy time of year and I really couldn’t come up with an appropriate Z-theme. It’s a bitch of a letter when it comes to rock’n’roll. I have been busy with the Alan Snoddy release party tonight at The Dakota, getting the wheels turning on the new Alert the Medic record and, most time consuming, making the final selections and announcements for the 2014 NXNE Film Festival. I don’t know what has happened over the past year but we have had very close to 500 submissions this year and it takes a lot of time, and patience, to sit through that many films. Perhaps it is due to the fact that we are opening up the festival to non-music films as the fest has become diversified in every aspect. Luckily they started to arrive as early as last September and I have pretty well stayed on top of it since then, but, once you get close to the submission deadline the films really start to pile up.
JAIMIE VERNON – WHERE HAVE ALL THE SOUNDTRACKS GONE
Posted in Opinion with tags American Graffiti, Bee Gees, Bob Segarini, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Canadian Music, Dazed & Confused, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis Presley, Ennio, Grease, Haunter, Help!, Hunger Games, Jaimie Vernon, James Newton Howard, John Debney, John Williams, musicals, Purple Rain, Quentin Tarantino, Saturday Night Fever, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Soundtracks, Spinal Tap, Swedish Fish, The Beatles, The Big Chill, The Bodyguard, The Graduate, The Rutles, West Side Story on November 23, 2013 by segarini
By the time you read this, the latest Tween wallet milking franchise, The Hunger Games: Catching Syphillis, will have opened in Octoogleplexes the world over to record breaking box office glory for a second time. Not since someone glued a lightning 
bolt to Radcliffe’s forehead or sparkles to Pattinson’s nipples has there been such a nauseating ballyhoo from teenaged girls and creepy middle-aged women. Every aspect of the movie has been gleaned, dissected and analyzed by the fodder feeding media including the outrage by fans of the books that inspired the franchise who were shocked to find out that the black characters were portrayed on screen by…black actors!
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Posted in Opinion with tags A Hard Day’s Night, American Graffiti, Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jesus Christ Superstar, Movies, music, Purple Rain, Quadrophenia, Records, Soundtracks, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Wizard Of Oz, Tommy, West Side Story on May 30, 2013 by segariniNo, not the great Swedish band but actual soundtracks. We all have our own individual soundtracks for our lives but what of those that were made for stage and screen? The world has changed since the days of Rodgers and Hammerstein and Webber and Rice and what constitutes a soundtrack for today’s generation is a long way away from “Oklahoma!” or “West Side Story”. For every horrible cash-grab “Glee” volume there is a Trent Reznor-Atticus Ross collaboration on the score for “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” or “The Social Network” to balance the equation. Of course both of those were ‘scores’ which is a somewhat different kettle of fish.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 