Luc Besson already got there
Check out "Angel:A".

Actually I have seen the Avatar footage and I think Cameron owes Richard Morgan some money. Avatar is definitely derived from Morgan Takeshi Kovacs books as Terminator was derived from Harlan Ellison's Demon With A Glass Hand (which Cameron paid Ellison for after a long trial). A movie based on Morgan's books has been…

Until you hear the original cast album and hear how it used to be for singers.
They had to have something called talent and knowledge of what those little dots and lines on a music score were and how they related to what they were to sing, and of course there weren't several dozen technicians in front of expensive…

The reason for all this is because this is a remake of an earlier Italian movie called Inglorious Bastards with a similar plot. This film showed recently in NYC. Tarantino's projects are always based on the vast number of films he has seen and thought, "I can do better".

early Les Paul
The man could hold his own with the jazz greats in the late '40's. There's a record of an early JATP concert where Paul gets in a "chase" with Nat "King" Cole that's really great. I have the original LP; don't know where it is in other formats.

A few facts
1. "Harvey" was originally a play in the 1940's. The rabbit imagined by Elwood P. Dowd never appears and it is up to the actor to convince the audience it's there. Jimmy Stewart could do it, but who has those acting chops now?
2. Matt Helm was a no nonsense assassin for the US government. In the books by…

Or, if you don't want to do it, send Amelie Gillette-then you'd have something…

Check out his early work on Decca (New York, NY, Jazz In the Space Age, sextet sides), Riverside(sextet), RCA(The Jazz Workshop), and the Columbia CD "Great Jazz Compositions of the Twentieth Century" that has "All About Rosie" which put Bill Evans on the map.
These are much more approachable than his later stuff, and…

I wonder…
1. Are LiLo and Megan Fox trying to invoke the shade of Marilyn Monroe because she outdid them both in talent, beauty and self-destructive behavior?
2. Whether Candy Spelling's objections to not being in her grandchild's public presentation had something to do with her not being paid for the appearance?

He's currently on stage in "Waiting for Godot" in NYC. Doing okay if reviews are to be believed.

As the book says…
The death of musical styles under commercial pressure has been going on a long, long time. No one listens to the hundreds of records issued in the twenties with falsetto singers and boring arrangements, a little jazz thrown in (courtesy of Benny Goodman) that were popular then with white audiences.…

Actually there's a movie out on DVD now called "Night Train" that sort of is a "Box" movie. when I watched it, I thought "a lost "Twilight Zone" episode".

She made her name in musical comedy on and off Broadway. There are few if any new musicals that she can be in, so TV is her trade now.

No-another guy not well known I think-when I go to the library tomorrow, I'll see if I can find them….

Bird people-where they were first
Figures this would come along when my memory is at a low ebb. There are a series of science fiction books by an Australian author which are set in a dystopia world where most of humanity was killed by dolphins joining together to "sing" in a way that lead humans lemming like to their…

Honey West was based on a series of tough detective novels by G. G. Fickling((name?). They were much like a bunch of other tough detective series following in the trail of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. If you want a secret agent among these fellows try Sam Marlowe: Assignment:(country) (CIA tough guy) paperbacks-now…

Stephen J. Connell
The other author besides Patterson was this gentleman. Once upon a time he produced a cop show called Hunter. It was about a tough no nonsense detective and a tough lady detective and the sexual chemistry was kept in the deep freeze for most of the series. For one season or more, the series sought…

Another suggestion for WW
Reading all the comments I wonder why no one has suggested the idea of Wonder Woman following another hero movie franchise: Hellboy, particularly Hellboy's animated movies(2) and two movies particularly Hellboy2. These villains of mystic worlds are more who she might be confronting. Maybe…

In the book, Nite Owl 2 and Laurie don't know what happened to Rorshach. Onzymandias seems to know, because Dr. M tells him, but the couple don't say anything about it. Laurie asks Dan to make love as a tribute to the countless dead-we're alive and they're not. Laurie has heart and I thought the relationship with Dan…

Revisonism in "the Reader"
This movie is an attempt to refute the idea presented in Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners"-that the Nazi drew on a deep well of Antisemitism inculcated in Germans since the 19th century at least. Women guards at Auschwitz, at the end of the war, with the Russians…