I'm Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy is a soundtrack album by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on May 22, 1990, by Sire Records to promote and accompany the film Dick Tracy, released in the summer of 1990.

The album is an eclectic mix of soundtrack numbers and songs inspired by the film. The album, musically, consists predominantly of Broadway showtune-flavoured^[3] jazz, swing and big band tracks inspired by the music of the 1940s;^[1][2] despite this, however, there are traces of contemporary pop music within the album, including the final song, "Vogue", which is a dance-pop track with a house beat and disco influences.^[1] The album contains "Sooner or Later", a jazz song from the film composed by Stephen Sondheim which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 1991 awards.^[4] Overall, the album received a mixed reception from music critics; reviewers applauded Stephen Sondheim numbers, as well as the final track "Vogue",^[2] and Madonna's vocals were praised;^[4] however, some deemed the non-film songs to be of little value.^[2] The album was commercially successful; it reached the top ten in the US^[5] as well as in several other countries. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it Gold, Platinum and 2x Platinum on July 30, 1990, denoting two million shipments in the United States and has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.^[6]

The album spawned two singles. The first, "Vogue", was one of Madonna's most successful and one of the world's best-selling singles, having sold over 6 million copies globally,^[7] and reaching number one in over 30 countries. It was also critically acclaimed, featuring in several critic lists,^{[8][9][10][11]} and it has been deemed an influential song,^[12] considered to have helped bring house into mainstream American popular music.^[13] The video was also successful, helping bring vogueing into mainstream popularity. The next single, "Hanky Panky", also did well commercially, reaching the top ten in the US and the UK; the song was noted by critics for its double entendres and innuendos.^[14]

In support of both I'm Breathless and her previous album, Like a Prayer, Madonna embarked on her Blond Ambition World Tour; the concert tour was critically acclaimed, winning an award at the 1990 Pollstar Concert Industry Awards;^[15] despite this, however, it was controversial for its sexual content as well as its usage of Catholic imagery,^[16] leading Pope John Paul II to call for a boycott, with one of Madonna's concerts in Italy being cancelled.^[17] Madonna has performed songs from the album in numerous occasions; Madonna performed "Sooner or Later" at the 1991 Oscar Awards wearing a dress inspired by American actress Marilyn Monroe,^[18] and it was deemed the seventh "most awesome" Academy Award performance by Billboard.^[18] Madonna also performed "Vogue" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, wearing 18th century Marie Antoinette-inspired clothes alongside her dancers. Madonna has performed "Vogue" on four of her concert tours.

Background[link]

Madonna performing "Now I'm Following You" with a Dick Tracy lookalike on the 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour.

There are four songs from the film on the album: "Sooner or Later", "More", "What Can You Lose?" and "Now I'm Following You", although the last song appears here in a version different from the one in the film (the film version was not performed by Madonna, but by the composer, Andy Paley). I'm Breathless can be considered another Madonna album,^{[by whom?][citation needed]} despite officially being a soundtrack album, or songs "from and inspired by" the film.

The success of the single "Vogue" (originally intended to be the B-side of "Keep It Together"), which was released prior to the album, combined with the publicity of Dick Tracy and Madonna's Blond Ambition Tour, gave I'm Breathless a significant sales boost. I'm Breathless reached number two on the Billboard 200, reaching platinum status in three months. The second hit, "Hanky Panky", kept the album in the charts for several months, although it was eventually overtaken by Madonna's The Immaculate Collection, released at the end of the year. As a consequence of this, two more planned single releases from the album, "Now I'm Following You" and "Sooner or Later", were canceled in favor of "Justify My Love" and "Rescue Me". Madonna performed "Sooner or Later", "Hanky Panky", "Now I'm Following You", and "Vogue" on her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour; that same year she also performed "Vogue" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, and 3 years later she included "Vogue" and "I'm Going Bananas" on her 1993 Girlie Show Tour. Both "Vogue" and "Hanky Panky" were included on her 2004 Re-Invention Tour. Later she performed "Vogue" on her 2008-09 Sticky & Sweet Tour.

"Sooner or Later," one of three songs written for the soundtrack by Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1991, and Madonna performed the song live at the award show. The song "Something to Remember" was included in Madonna's ballads compilation album of the same name. Rolling Stone magazine stated: "No other pop star today could—or probably would - make an album like this." Madonna commented in a 1998 interview that this album is one of her favorites, saying, "I love every song on that album."^{[citation needed]}

Musical composition[link]

I'm Breathless is essentially composed of 1940s popular music, with influences of Broadway showtunes, including big band, jazz, swing and traditional pop; despite this, however, some of the songs also incorporate elements of contemporary pop music. The song "Vogue", however, breaks from this type of jazz/pop nature of the album, being a disco-styled dance-pop song with house beats. Influences of other genres can be heard within the I'm Breathless, including jive ("More"),^[19] Latin music ("I'm Going Bananas"),^[20] power ballad ("He's A Man"),^[19] torch song ("What Can You Lose") and deep house ("Vogue").^[21]

Critical reception[link]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[22]
Robert Christgau	(A) [23]
Entertainment Weekly	(D) [24]
Rolling Stone	[25]
Slant Magazine	[26]

I'm Breathless has received generally mixed reviews. Critic Robert Christgau gave the album an A grade, claiming that, when it comes to campiness, Madonna "knows how to do it right".^[23] Mark Coleman from Rolling Stone gave the album a three-and-a-half out of five stars and positive review, claiming that Madonna "pulls it off with brass and panache", and that one of the album's tracks and singles, "Vogue", shows that she "can still deliver that indefinable something extra".^[25] Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine also gave the album a favourable review, as well as four out of five stars, claiming that "I'm Breathless proves that Madonna is a true renaissance woman".^[26] J. Randy Taraborrelli, in his book Madonna: An Intimate Biography, gave the album a favourable review, writing that it was "one of Madonna's greatest musical moments", and praising her vocal performance.^[27]

Entertainment Weekly gave the I'm Breathless a D grade as well as a negative review, claiming that it "sounds gruesomely forced", yet, asserting that "Vogue" is an album highlight.^[24] Furthermore, Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine also gave the album a relatively mixed to unfavourable review, claiming that the album's songs are just "cutesy novelty numbers", yet, also writing that "Vogue" is a standout track.^[22] Q magazine lamented, in its June 1990 review, "It's something of a disappointment because the lady herself stays so firmly committed to a character who's less original than the persona she evolved during the '80s." Nonetheless, in the same magazine's December 1994 issue, Madonna declared: "I would have to say the favourite record that I've made is the soundtrack to Dick Tracy. I love every one of those songs… My judgement is never based on the world's reaction."^[28]

Promotion and live performances[link]

The dress worn by Madonna in her performance of "Vogue" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards was compared to the fashions of 18th century French queen Marie Antoinette.

I'm Breathless, alongside Madonna's previous album, Like A Prayer, was promoted in Madonna's third concert tour, the Blond Ambition World Tour, which spanned three different continents (Asia, North America and Europe). Consisting of 57 dates, the tour was divided into five sections, the first inspired by the 1927 German expressionist film Metropolis, the second by religious themes, the third by the film Dick Tracy and cabaret, the fourth by Art Deco, whilst the fifth was an encore. The show, with sexual themes, also contained Catholic imagery, such as in Madonna's performance of "Like a Prayer", which was based in church-like surroundings with Madonna wearing a crucifix and her backup dancers dressed like priests and nuns. The concert's sexual content and religious imagery proved controversial; in Toronto Canada, Madonna was threatened of being arrested for obscenity,^[29] and Pope John Paul II later called for a boycott, with one of the three Italian dates being cancelled. Despite this, the tour was a critical success, winning "Most Creative Stage Production" at the 1990 Pollstar Concert Industry Awards.

Songs from the album have been performed live in notable performances. At the 1991 Academy Awards, Madonna performed the Oscar-winning "Sooner or Later", clad in a Marilyn Monroe-inspired gown and a set resembling classic Hollywood. The performance was ranked as the seventh "most awesome" performance in the history of the award show by Billboard. The song "Vogue" was also famously performed at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, where Madonna and her dancers were clad in 18th century-inspired fashions.^[30] The performance of "Vogue" was later ranked by Billboard as the sixth best performance in the history of the award show.^[30] Madonna has performed "Vogue" in five of her concert tours, including the Blond Ambition World Tour, The Girlie Show Tour, the Re-Invention Tour, the Sticky & Sweet Tour, and the MDNA Tour.

Track listing[link]

Additional notes

• "Sooner or Later", "More" and "What Can You Lose" are from the motion picture Dick Tracy
• "Sooner or Later" has an official title of "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)"; this credit was used at the 1991 Academy Awards
• "Vogue": *denotes Executive Producer

Album credits[link]

• Vocals: Madonna
• Additional vocals: Warren Beatty (Parts I & II of "Now I'm Following You"), Mandy Patinkin ("What Can You Lose")
• Drums: Jeffrey Porcaro, Carlos Vega and John Guerin
• Percussion: Luis Conte
• Drum programming: Patrick Leonard
• Bass: Guy Pratt, Abraham Laboriel and Bob Magnusson
• Bass synth by Patrick Leonard
• Keyboards: Patrick Leonard
• Piano: Bill Schneider
• Kazoo: Steph Harmon
• Acoustic piano: Randy Waldman
• Tenor sax: Bob Cooper
• Alto sax: Abe Most
• Tambourine: Nicole Fossati
• Saxophone: Dave Boruff and Jeff Clayton
• Flute: Paul Capolupo and Thomas Gilmore
• Oboe: Luke T. Death
• Clarinet: Abe Most and Mahlon Clark
• Trumpet: Tony Terran
• Trombone: Charlie Loper
• Hi hat: Jonathan Moffett
• Bells: Ken Leanfore
• Mariachis: Samuel Nolasco and Xavier Serrano
• Background vocals: Nathan Jolly, Donna DeLory, Niki Haris, Jennie Douglas McRae, and N'Dea Davenport
• Production: Madonna, Patrick Leonard, and Bill Bottrell
• Mixed by Brian Malouf
• Arranged by Jeremy Lubbock

Singles[link]

Charts, sales and certifications[link]

References[link]

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External links[link]

• I'm Breathless at MusicBrainz

Look up I'm or i'm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

I Am may refer to:

Music[link]

Albums[link]

• I Am... (Ayumi Hamasaki album), 2002
• I Am (Chrisette Michele album), 2007
• I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album), 1979
• I Am (Mao Denda album), 2009
• I Am (Michael Tolcher album), 2004
• I Am (Monrose album), 2008
• I Am… (Nas album), 1999
• I Am (Pete Townshend album), 1972
• I Am (Terri Walker album), 2006
• I Am (Texas in July album), 2009
• I Am, an album by Elisa Fiorillo
• I Am, an album by Scout Niblett
• I Am... Sasha Fierce, a 2008 album by Beyoncé Knowles
• I Am (Future Black President) The EP, by Novel

Songs[link]

• "I Am" (Kid Rock song), 2004
• "I Am" (Killing Heidi song), 2004
• "I Am" (Mary J. Blige song), 2009
• "I Am" (Mark Schultz song), 2006
• "I Am" (Mýa song), 2007
• "I Am" (Train song), 1996
• "I Am", by Christina Aguilera from Bionic
• "I Am", by Dio from Master of the Moon
• "I Am", by Godsmack from Faceless
• "I Am", by Hilary Duff from Hilary Duff
• "I Am", by hitomi from huma-rhythm
• "I Am", by Static-X from Wisconsin Death Trip
• "I Am", by Suggs from The Three Pyramids Club
• "I Am", by Bon Jovi from Have a Nice Day (Bon Jovi album)

Performers[link]

• I Am (band), an American alternative rock band
• IAM (band), a French hip hop band

Other media[link]

• I Am (2010 film), a 2010 Indian film by Onir
• I Am (2011 film), a 2011 American documentary film by Tom Shadyac
• I Am, a Polish film directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska
• "I Am" (poem), a 1848 poem by John Clare
• I AM (book), a book by the Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
• I AM., a 2012 biographical film of SM Town

Other uses[link]

• I am (biblical term) a Christian term used in the New Testament
• "I AM" Activity, a religious movement
• "I Am", a 2008 slogan and marketing campaign by Orange United Kingdom
• "I Am that I Am", a common English translation of the response God used in the Hebrew Bible when Moses asked for His name
• I.AM Committee of the Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam

See also[link]

• I Am What I Am (disambiguation)
• IAM (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "I Am"

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Joey Reynolds is the pseudonym of Joey Pinto, host of the U.S. radio program The Joey Reynolds Show via the WOR Radio Network.^[1] Reynolds' broadcasting career started on TV- in Buffalo at WGR TV 2 his first radio job was WWOL in Buffalo with Dick Purtan then WKWK,Wheeling,WV after that he continued at several venerable stations, including WKBW in Buffalo, New York, WHTZ and WNBC in New York City, KQV in Pittsburgh, KMPC and KRTH in Los Angeles, WDRC in Hartford, WIXY in Cleveland, and WIBG and WFIL in Philadelphia.

He rose to fame as a Top 40 radio personality during the 1960s and 1970s, amassing huge audiences in places such as Hartford, Connecticut, Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Reynolds is often regarded as the originator of "shock talk radio", whose sometimes outlandish on and off-air stunts garnered widespread publicity. (The Four Seasons even produced a special radio jingle for the introduction of his daily radio show). He was the focus of a two-part series on The Oprah Winfrey Show concerning talk radio personalities, on which more than a dozen of Reynolds' media peers paid tribute to him. Moreover, he has been invited to speak about entertainment media at several radio industry conferences. During his time in Buffalo, he and fellow DJ Danny Neaverth recorded a novelty single entitled "Rats in My Room."

Reynolds and Neaverth, on behalf of WKBW, were offered the chance to bring The Beatles to Buffalo Memorial Auditorium on February 10, 1964, the day after the band had appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. It would have been the Beatles' first concert in North America. Unwilling to risk the $3500 appearance fee for a Monday night concert, in the poor February weather, for an unproven band he did not expect to sell out the auditorium, the two declined the offer. It was not until after Beatlemania swept the nation that they acknowledged that it was a mistake to not bring them in. In the three years the band toured North America, they never performed a show in Buffalo.^[2]

Joey Reynolds was in the category of disc jockey, playing music on music intensive radio stations from the very late 1950s until the mid-1980s during his time on Z 100 and WFIL. In 1986, he arrived at the former WNBC in New York City doing the afternoon drive, Howard Stern's previous shift. That station was attempting to move into a more talk intensive full service format with music taking a backseat but still heard. Reynolds was basically playing a mix of oldies and adult contemporary cuts along with comedy and personality, and was most notably on the air when the station's traffic helicopter crashed, killing reporter Jane Dornacker. He exited WNBC at the end of February 1987 and was replaced by Alan Colmes.

His next stations were morning shows and at that point Joey had evolved into more of a talk intensive program. He was less a DJ and more like a talk show host. By 1995, Joey was no longer playing music on his shows and in 1996 he arrived at WOR in New York. He has been a talk show host since.

While Reynolds' present persona can be considered mellower by comparison, he still retains a loyal audience. In Denver, Colorado, he hosted a radio-television simulcast on KOA-AM, and launched (and hosted) the first nationwide satellite radio programming featured on more than 35 radio stations coast-to-coast.

Reynolds' career memoir is titled, Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella, But Don’t Get a Mouthful of Rain. He maintains a second home in Florida and spends most weekends with two daughters from a previous marriage.

On March 10, 2010, it was revealed that WOR would pick up Coast to Coast AM from Premiere Radio and would cancel "The Joey Reynolds Show." (Coast to Coast had been heard on crosstown rival WABC for several years, before that station dropped the show in favor of an in-house offering from Doug McIntyre, which led Premiere to seek WOR as the new New York affiliate.) Reynolds' last show, which was segregated into the "Final Gay Hour," the "Final Jewish Hour" and "The Final Hour," aired the morning of April 3, 2010.

Reynolds later hosted All Night with Joey Reynolds on WNBC-DT2, the digital subchannel of television station WNBC-TV known as "New York Nonstop." It was broadcast live from the NASDAQ site in Times Square at 43rd Street and Broadway. Reynolds was reunited with his former WNBC radio sidekick, Jay Sorensen, as the program's announcer. The series ended on April 25, 2011.

Stations at which Reynolds has worked[link]

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• WNCO, Ashland, Ohio
• WWOL, Buffalo, New York
• WKWK, Wheeling, West Virginia
• WAME, Miami, Florida
• KQAQ, Austin, Minnesota (1960–61)
• WNDR, Syracuse, New York (1961–62)
• WPOP, Hartford, Connecticut (1962–63)
• WKBW, Buffalo, New York (1963–66)
• WDOK/WIXY, Cleveland, Ohio (1966)
• WXYZ, Detroit, Michigan (1966–68)
• WDRC, Hartford, Connecticut (1968–1971)
• WIBG, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1971–73)
• WHLW, Lakewood Township, New Jersey (1973–75)
• KQV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1975–76)
• KMPC, Los Angeles, California (1976–80)
• KRTH, Los Angeles, California (1980–81)
• WGAR, Cleveland, Ohio (1981–83)
• WHTZ, New York City, New York (1983)
• WHYT, Detroit, Michigan (1983–84)
• KMGG, Los Angeles, California (1984)
• WFIL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1984–1986)
• WNBC, New York City, New York (1986–87)
• WSHE, Miami, Florida (1988)
• WQAM, WIOD and WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida (1988–90)
• WFLY, Albany, New York (1990–94)
• WBZT, West Palm Beach, Florida (1994–96)
• WOR, New York City, New York and national syndication (1996–2010)
• WNBC-DT2, New York City, New York (2011–present)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Web site
• WOR page
• No More Joey Shoey

Arden Myrin
Myrin backstage at the Cynthia Rowley fashion show in September 2011
Born	(1973-12-10) December 10, 1973 (age 38) Little Compton, Rhode Island, U.S.
Occupation	Actress/Comedian
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Dan Martin (2007-present)

Arden Myrin ( /məˈriːn/; born December 10, 1973) is an American comedian and actress known for her role on the television show MADtv.

Biography[link]

Early years[link]

Myrin was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a seaside fishing village. She was the younger of two children; her father was an accountant, and her mother was a real estate agent. As a child, she staged her neighborhood plays, and she enjoyed seeing Annie on Broadway. She attended the Friends Academy in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where she graduated in 1988. She then attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts for high school.

Afterwards, she attended Colorado College, a small liberal arts school, where she received a degree in theater and studio arts and she was elected commencement speaker at her graduation. During one college break, Myrin began to study improvisational comedy and worked as an intern on NBC's Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 1993-94, where she admits she "mostly ran the Xerox machine".

Soon after graduation, Myrin briefly moved to Chicago when she became a member of the Improv Olympic and later re-located to Los Angeles where she was part of the same group. One of her memorable standup comedian acts included a section of her own life experiences called “Straight Outta Lil' Compton”. Myrin also trained with the L.A. Comedy troupe The Groundlings.

Personal life[link]

On December 30, 2007, Myrin married Dan Martin, a comedy writer she first met in 2001.^[1]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Myrin returned to New York and appeared in commercials while working as a waitress and taking acting classes. She caught a break when two casting directors sent an agent to see her newly minted stand-up comedy act, which netted her an agency contract. Since then, she has shelved her standup career.

She has appeared in many films, including Kinsey and What Women Want. Notable television credits include the regular role of Abby on Working and guest roles on Friends and Reno 911!.

MADtv[link]

Myrin officially joined the cast of MADtv in 2005 as a repertory performer for the eleventh season and remained with the show until it was canceled in 2009. Her characters included "Crafty Gal Kendra" and Alana from "Holly Meadow Estates". Her impersonations included Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Smith, Jillian Barberie, Katherine Heigl, Tara Reid, Cindy McCain, Alex Borstein (as Lois Griffin from Family Guy), Goldie Hawn, Ali Lohan, Avril Lavigne, Lily Allen, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Jamie Lynn Spears, Emily Osment, Portia de Rossi, Mayim Bialik, Katy Perry, and Melanie Griffith.

Characters[link]

• Alana (Holly Meadow Estates)
• Kendra (Jazzed for Crafts)
• Lindsey (Apple iPad)

Current projects[link]

Most recently, Arden has become a frequent panelist on E!'s Chelsea Lately roundtable. She has also appeared twice as a guest on popular internet podcast Two Jacks in the Hole.

Filmography[link]

Movie appearances[link]

Television appearances[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Arden Myrin at the Internet Movie Database
• Official MADtv site
• Arden Myrin is interviewed and performs on Radio Happy Hour