July 2011
99 posts
Moonlighting
Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985 to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes (67 in syndication as the pilot is split into two episodes). Starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as private detectives, the show was a mixture of drama, comedy and romance, and was considered to be one of the first successful and influential...
Sad news for the music industry: Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her north London home last Saturday afternoon.
More sad news for the music industry: Singer Justin Bieber, 17, was found alive in his Stratford, Ontario apartment later that day.
Shit happens.
“Do me good, I’ll tell you anything you want to hear. Do me good, and all...”
– Amy Winehouse, 1983-2011 (“Do Me Good”, Island Records, 2006)
theurbanhistorian:
It took more than 400 years from Soliman’s ancestors to the Commonwealth in building the Old Manila. It just took a month of battle, Japanese bombs, American Artillery, and the Filipino indifference to heritage will erase Old Manila, the Noble and Ever Loyal City, from the map, forever. Sad fact, but this is the reality.
Round Midnight
Round Midnight is a 1986 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by David Rayfiel and Bertrand Tavernier. It tells the story of an African American tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s who is befriended by an unsuccessful French graphic designer who idolizes the musician and who tries desperately to help him to escape alcohol abuse. The protagonist jazzman, “Dale...
“…You’ve got a lot to learn, if you think that I’m not waiting...”
– (Darryl) Hall and (John) Oates (“Wait for Me”, 1982, RCA Records.)
Brochure for the (then) new 1982 Volkswagen...
Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval. The film was an international co-production between production companies in...
