Blog posts
In a Dystopian Future…Everyone Will Be Covered in Bruises
…my deeply held beliefs did not prevent me from accepting a role a few years back in a student film called “Standing Still,” which was set in a dystopian future where everyone is…covered in bruises.
The Year Without Music: To Natalie…With Love
…when NARAS held its 58th Annual Grammy Awards on February 16, 2016, there was an expectation among family, fans, and the industry that the organization would pay tribute to the nine-time Grammy winner in a manner befitting her unique multi-generational, multi-genre status.
Mariah Carey’s Times Square Meltdown: Shit Happened
Toward the end of the number, she partially executes an ambivalent, stiff dip, as if to say, “Hey everybody, I’m not even going to attempt to sing without the track, but I have a different trick, I will now bend backwards thirty degrees with assistance.”
Wing’s “Beat It” Kicks 2016 in the Ass!
Twins Stella and Ella Interpret “Silent Night”
Florence Henderson Sings “That Old Black Magic” on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
“Christmas Melody”: The Evolution of a Song
It began with an idea: for many years, I had wanted to create a song inspired by The Carpenters’ Merry Christmas, Darling—one of the all-time great holiday classics that was written by Richard Carpenter and Frank Pooler and recorded in 1970
Willie Nelson on How to Make a Great Record
Which Famous Celebs Like to Gamble?
Joan Crawford’s 1968 Drunken Airport Interview: “I’m a Shtrong Dame”
“Where did you find her, Miss Crawford?” the interviewer asks of Carol, the terrified six-year-old placed on Joan’s lap as a prop—sort of like the crumpled flowers. One feels for the bewildered child, whom Joan now asphyxiates in the fetid brew of her alcohol- perfume- and cigarette-drenched plane ride. “Oh, I just always pick up children,” the star replies without a hint of irony, clearly unaware that George Cukor is not, in fact, the man behind the camera and that it is no longer 1940.