Overwhelming! Two mega-movies, HEAT & RHAPSODY IN BLUE, light up TCM Fest 2025 3
director michael mann, actor al pacino, ben mank in conversation prior to screening of HEAT (1995) at tcl chinese theater part of tcm fest 2025, april 27, 2025 There’s something lacking in the much-bantered trope, “You have to see it on the big screen.” And yet, those very words motivate film fans from across the ...
Conrad Tao & Clayton-Hamilton to jointly wish “Rhapsody” a Happy Hundredth
Ed. note: This story by jazz writer, Kirk Silsbee, was commissioned by The Soraya in advance of Conrad Tao & The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Rhapsody in Blue on Saturday March 16. It is re-published with permission. The February 12, 1924 premiere of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” was a musical earthquake. When the young prodigy ...