FILM, TV and THEATRE
THE “OTHER” TERMINATOR (Marvin the Paranoid Android)
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DOCTOR WHO THEME
BRANDO on set of APOCALYPSE NOW (Photos by Mary Ellen Mark)
JOHN BOORMAN IN HOLLYWOOD (Queen and Country at the American Cinematheque)
The author (l.) with John Boorman outside the Aero Theatre
STILL ‘FATALE’ AFTER ALL THESE YEARS (The Last Picture Show Returns)
NAPOLEON REDUX (The Emperor of Films Returns)
FILMMAKERS on FILMMAKERS (ALAN PARKER on KEVIN BROWNLOW)
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MUSIC CUE (or How “An American Werewolf in London” Lost Its Bite)
THEMES FOR SECRET AGENTS (The Phase 4 Stereo Effect Part 1: James Bond, Roland Shaw, et al.)
JAMES BOND on the SOUTH BANK SHOW
THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE? (“NAPOLEON” on BASTILLE DAY)
HAPPY 130th BIRTHDAY, FRANZ! (Kafka meets Welles in “The Trial”)
RAY HARRYHAUSEN (ANIMATING THE IMAGINATION)
The Wit and Wisdom of Nora Ephron
Composing “E.T.” (Happy 82nd Birthday, John Williams)
“We’ll Meet Again” (Celebrating 50 Years of “Dr. Strangelove”)
The Wit and Wisdom of Sir Alan Parker
A Little Birthday Gilliam (without so much rat in it)
Drawn to Greatness (Richard Williams at the Academy)
How to draw Bugs and a Certain Coyote
Terry Gilliam on the Art of Animation
Paul Thomas Anderson on Max Ophuls
Kubrick’s Favorite Movies (Happy 85th Stanley!)
The Original British Bad Boy: Terence Stamp at 75
Bert shoots Marilyn… (and Marilyn shoots Bert)
Watching every Hitchcock cameo….
The System IS the Enemy (REVIEW of “The East”)
Peter O’Toole and Orson Welles discuss “Hamlet”
Televising the Queen’s Coronation
“CLINIC E” (A Dark Comedy about Getting The Test)
MUSIC
THE MAKING OF DAVID BOWIE’S “HEROES”
BEETHOVEN TRANSFIGURED (The Neuen Effect)
THE MAN IN THE MACHINE (Kraftwerk Live at Disney Hall)
THEMES FOR SECRET AGENTS (The Phase 4 Stereo Effect Part 1: James Bond, Roland Shaw, et al.)
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MUSIC CUE (or How “An American Werewolf in London” Lost Its Bite)
A MUSICAL METAMORPHOSIS BY ORLANDO DI LASSO
The Story of British Prog Rock
The Making of Peter Gabriel’s “Security”
Composing “E.T.” (Happy 82nd Birthday, John Williams)
RADIO
EINSTEIN’S MONSTERS (The Bomb, Martin Amis, and Thinking the Unthinkable)
HAPPY 450th, BILL! (How I Celebrated Shakespeare’s Birthday with Sir Ian McKellen)
TRIPPING THE SOUND FANTASTIC (Dramatizing THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER for Radio)
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (Full Dramatization)
WHEN MARTIANS ROAMED THE EARTH (THE STORY BEHIND “THE WAR OF THE WORLDS”)
THE FIRST ASCENT OF EVEREST
WATCHING DAD ON EVEREST (THE FIRST ASCENT AND 1951 RECONNAISSANCE)
MY DAD, THE YETI, AND ME (EVEREST 1951)
MY DAD ON EVEREST AND BEYOND (OF GOD AND SCIENCE)
Televising the Queen’s Coronation
The Photo That Travelled Around the World (60 Years Ago Today)
Design by Dennis Ramirez (dennis@gphix.com)
HOLLYWOOD ( and all that ) 