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Dog Ears Music: Decoration Day Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Marvin Etzioni & Steve Earle, Pretenders, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Neil Diamond, The B-52?S, The Raconteurs, Animal Collective, Whatever Hippie Bitch, Holopaw, Danielle Evin, Blue ÖYster Cult, Music, Bee Gees, Spike Jones, Snow Patrol, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Bibi Tanga & Le Professeur Inlassable, mp3s, John Lee Hooker, Bill Evans, Frank Stokes, Carly Simon, Joe Henry, Phil Ramone, Elton John, Bernard Herrmann, Burning Spear, Dog Ears, Pyyramids, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week our playlist includes music by John Lee Hooker, Bee Gees, Pretenders, Bernard Herrmann, Pyyramids and more.

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Novak Doubles Down on 'The Artist' 'Rape' Comments

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, The Artist, Video, Kim Novak, Vertigo, Kim Novak the Artist Rape, Kim Novak Rape, Hitchcock Vertigo, Bernard Herrmann, The Artist Score, Kim Novak the Artist, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Kim Novak is clarifying why she used the word "rape" to describe how she felt about "The Artist." The 79-year-old "Vertigo" actre...

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'Vertigo'-ing Movies From 'Rocky' To 'Mean Girls'

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: The Artist, Video, Vertigoed, Vertigo, Kim Novak, Vertigoing, Michel Hazanavicius, Vertigo Score, Vertigo-ing, Bernard Herrmann, Indiewire, The Artist Kim Novak, Vertigo-Ed, Kim Novak the Artist, Mashups, Culture News

How much can changing the music in a movie scene change the scene itself? A new contest challenges people to use the same piece of music over any movi...

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#Scoregate: No Justice, No Peace

Orlando Jones | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Norcross-Georgia, The Artist, Vertigo, Kim Novak, Snoop Dogg, Bernard Herrmann, Beyonce, Tim Tebow, Blue Ivy Carter, Jayz, Comedy News
Orlando Jones

People angry at Kim Novak are missing the point. When someone reports a rape you're supposed to grab a pitch fork and attack. That's it. Don't think. Don't analyze. Just get a lynch mob together and go after the rapist, stupid.

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Dog Ears Music: Volume 177

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: The Decemberists, Marty Shtrubel, Al Jolson, Moby, Andrea Hoag, Johnny Cash, Danielle Evin, Music, Tom Petty, Michael Penn, Chet Baker, mp3s, John Lee Hooker, Xtc, Joe Henry, Phil Ramone, Bernard Herrmann, Josh White, Dog Ears, Dead Confederate, James Taylor, Drive-by Truckers, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week, we feature music by Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, James Taylor, Moby, and more.

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Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Jim Jones Revue, Back to School, Martin Scorsese, Edwards Scissorhands, Akira Kurosawa, Dimitri Tiomkin, Carlos Chaivez, Rob Zombie, Pierre Yuksek, The Drums, Marilyn Manson, Steven Spielberg, Pavement, Rush, A Clock Orange, Bernard Herrmann, Kinky, Dick Tracy, Daft Punk, Werner Herzog, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ariel Pink, Devo, Richard Craft, Lincoln Center, Slayer, The Voyage of Sinbad, Tim Burton, Max Steiner, John Huston, Russ Meyer, Gerry Casale, Woolite, A Perfect Circle, Harlem, Kii Arens, U2, Phoenix, Comedy Central, Jell-O, Slipknot, Broadway Danny Rose, Weird Science, Forbidden Zone, The Lords of Salem, Joni Mitchell, Army of Darkness, Danny Elfman, Sebastien Teller, Stanley Kubrick, Jeffrey Miller, Jason Trucco, Beetlejuice, Paul Simon, Seb Caudron, Alice in Wonderland, Big Fish, Alfred Hitchcock, Silverchair, The Pixies, Jason & the Argonauts, Federico Fellini, Tom Papa, Ginger Fish, Gus Van Sant, Smith Westerns, Franz Waxman, Alexandre Desplat, Roman Polanski, Richard Prior, Carny, Midnight Run, Oingo Boingo, Stephen Colbert, Gary Busey, The Cars, Batman, The Static Revenger, Steve Martin, John Williams, Iron Maiden, Allison Krause, White Zombie, The Bewitched Hands, Jon Stewart, Twyla Tharpe, Soundgarden, Aaron Sorkin, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Nono Rota, Air, Paul Reubens, Peatport, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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The Ghost(s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinatown, The Parallax View, Tony Blair, The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski, Cia, Bauhaus, Ronald Reagan, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jim Belushi, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitler, Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren, Warhol, Alexandre Desplat, Morgane Polanski, Brutalist Architecture, James Bond, Cool Britannia, Ewan McGregor, Barack Obama, The Queen, Tim Hutton, Bernard Herrmann, Olivia Williams, Eli Wallach, Sex and the City, 9/11, Iraq War, Condi Rice, Alan J. Pakula, Britain, Pakistan, Rendition, Halliburton, Robert Harris, Warren Beatty, Robert Pugh, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Yet it seems unlikely, at least in America, to break out beyond the art house hit status.

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The Best Original Movie Scores By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Zhivago, Goldfinger, The Bad and the Ugly, Henry Mancini, Pulp Fiction, Movie, Moviemaking, Breakfast at Tiffany's, John Barry, A Man and a Woman, Miklos Rozsa, Maurice Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, Son of a Preacher Man, David Raksin, The Good, Burt Bacharach, Movie Music, Nino Rota, Michel Legrand, Lawrence of Arabia, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Stuck in the Middle With You, The Magnificent Seven, Best Original Score, The Pink Panther, Elmer Bernstein, Gone With the Wind, The Thomas Crown Affair, Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone, Bob Dylan, Film Scores, Reservoir Dogs, American Graffiti, Max Steiner, Eric Wolfgang Korngold, James Bond, The Godfather, Movie Soundtracks, Dusty Springfield, Quentin Tarantino, The Godfather Part 2, Laura, Entertainment News
John Farr

Surveying the historical span of filmmaking, the use of original music appears more prevalent from the dawn of sound through the 1970s -- or perhaps it's just that the scores themselves were more memorable over this period.

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