Name	Jack Nitzsche
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Bernard Alfred Nitzsche
Born	April 22, 1937Chicago, Illinois
Died	August 25, 2000Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Instrument	Saxophone, piano
Genre	Rock, jazz, classical
Occupation	Composer, orchestrator, arranger, session musician, record producer
Years active	1955–2000
Associated acts	The Nooney Rickett 4, Sonny Bono, Phil Spector, The Wrecking Crew, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Rolling Stones, Willy DeVille

Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000) was an arranger, producer, songwriter, and film score composer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and others. He also worked extensively in film scores, winning a song of the year Oscar in 1983 for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" (from An Officer and a Gentleman.)

Biography

Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised on a farm in Newaygo, Michigan, Nitzsche moved to Los Angeles, California in 1955 with ambitions of becoming a jazz saxophonist. He found work copying musical scores, where he met Sonny Bono, with whom he wrote the song "Needles and Pins" for Jackie DeShannon, later covered by Cher, The Searchers, The Ramones, Crack the Sky and Willy DeVille and Tom Petty with Stevie Nicks (Pack up the Plantation). His own instrumental composition "The Lonely Surfer" became a minor hit, as did a big-band swing arrangement of Link Wray's "Rumble".

He eventually became arranger and conductor for producer Phil Spector, and orchestrated the ambitious Wall of Sound for the song "River Deep, Mountain High" by Ike and Tina Turner. Besides Spector, he worked closely with West Coast session musicians such as Leon Russell, Roy Caton, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, and Hal Blaine in a group known as The Wrecking Crew. They created backing music for numerous sixties pop recordings by various artists such as The Beach Boys and The Monkees. Nitzsche also arranged the title song of Doris Day's Move Over, Darling that was a successful single on the pop charts of the time.

Nitzsche also was the producer and arranger for two of Bob Lind's albums: Don't Be Concerned and Photographs of Feeling; a compilation disc entitled , issued in 2007, contains the material on these two albums.

While organizing the music for The T.A.M.I. Show television special in 1964, he met The Rolling Stones, and went on to contribute the keyboard textures to their albums The Rolling Stones, Now! (or The Rolling Stones No. 2 in the UK), Out of Our Heads, Aftermath and Between the Buttons, as well as the hit singles "Paint It Black" and "Let's Spend the Night Together" and the choral arrangements for "You Can't Always Get What You Want". In 1968, Nitzsche introduced the band to slide guitarist Ry Cooder, a seminal influence on the band's 1969-1973 style.

Some of Nitzsche's most enduring rock productions were conducted in collaboration with Neil Young, beginning with his production and arrangement of Buffalo Springfield's "Expecting To Fly", considered by many critics to be a touchstone of the psychedelic era. In 1968, he produced Young's eponymously titled solo debut with David Briggs. Even as the singer's style veered from the baroque to rootsy hard rock, Young continued to work with Nitzsche on some of his most commercially successful solo recordings, most notably Harvest. Nitzsche played electric piano with Crazy Horse throughout 1970 (a representative performance can be heard on the Live at the Fillmore East album) and went on to produce their sans-Young debut album a year later.

While prolific and hard working throughout the 1970s, he began to suffer from depression and problems connected with substance abuse. After he castigated Young in a drunken 1974 interview, the two men became estranged for several years and would only collaborate sporadically thereafter; later that year, he was dropped from Reprise Records' roster after recording a scathing song criticizing executive Mo Ostin. This culminated in his arrest for a violent assault on longtime girlfriend Carrie Snodgress, formerly Young's companion, in 1979.

In 1979, he produced Graham Parker's album Squeezing Out Sparks. Nitzsche produced three Willy DeVille albums beginning in the late 1970s: Cabretta (1977), Return to Magenta (1978), and Coup de Grâce (1981). Nitzsche said that DeVille was the best singer he had ever worked with.

In the 1970s he began to concentrate more on film music rather than pop music, and became one of the most prolific film orchestrators in Hollywood in the period, winning an Academy Award for Best Song for co-writing with Buffy Sainte-Marie "Up Where We Belong" from 1982's An Officer and a Gentleman. (Nitzsche had already worked with Sainte-Marie on She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina in the early 1970s.) Nitzsche had also worked on film scores throughout his career, such as his contributions to the Monkees movie Head, the theme music from Village of the Giants (recycling an earlier single, "The Last Race"), and the distinctive soundtracks for Performance, The Exorcist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hardcore (1979), The Razor's Edge (1984), and Starman (also 1984).

At the start of the next decade, he scored Revenge (1990). On Revenge he worked with Joanna St. Claire, who wrote, recorded and produced the original song "Are You Ready" for the film's soundtrack. Nietzsche called St. Claire "one of the most phenomenal singers I have heard or had the pleasure to work with”, and “a great, innovative songwriter”.

His intensive output declined somewhat during the rest of the decade. In the mid-1990s, a clearly inebriated Nitzsche was seen in an episode of the reality show COPS, being arrested in Hollywood after brandishing a gun at some youths who had stolen his hat. In attempting to explain himself to the arresting officers he is heard exclaiming that he was an Academy Award winner. In 1997, he expressed interest in producing a comeback album for Link Wray, although this never materialized due to their mutually declining health.

In 1983, he married Canadian/First Nations folk singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. His first wife was blue-eyed soul singer Gracia Ann May; they divorced in 1974. In the 1990s, he was frequently seen once more in the company of Snodgress.

Nitzsche suffered a stroke in 1998 that effectively ended his career. He died in Hollywood's Queen of Angels Hospital in 2000 of cardiac arrest brought on by a recurring bronchial infection. The R.E.M. instrumental b-side "2JN" was written by guitarist Peter Buck the week Nitzsche died, and the title uses his initials in tribute.

Discography

1963: The Lonely Surfer

1964: Dance To The Hits Of The Beatles

1966: Chopin '66

1972 : St. Giles Cripplegate

1978 : OSR Blue Collar

1984 : OSR The Razor's Edge

1991 : OSR The Indian Runner with David Lindley

2007 : OSR Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (Reuses "The Last Race" as opening theme.)

Filmography

Village of the Giants (1965)

Performance (1970)

Greaser's Palace (1972)

Sticks and Bones (1973)

The Exorcist (1973)

Moment to Moment (1975)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Heroes (1977)

Blue Collar (1978)

Hardcore (1979)

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979)

Cruising (1980)

Heart Beat (1980)

Cutter and Bone a.k.a. Cutter's Way (1981)

Personal Best (1982)

Cannery Row (1982)

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

Without a Trace (1983)

Breathless (1983)

Windy City (1984)

The Razor's Edge (1984)

Starman (1984)

The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

Stripper (1986)

9½ Weeks (1986)

Stand by Me (1986)

The Whoopee Boys (1986)

Streets of Gold (1986)

The Seventh Sign (1988)

Next of Kin (1989)

Revenge (1990)

The Last of the Finest (1990)

The Hot Spot (1990)

Mermaids (1990)

The Indian Runner (1991)

Blue Sky (1994)

The Crossing Guard (1995)

References

External links

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a fan site

Jack Nitzsche discography

Nitzsche discography at Spectropop

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Name	Willy DeVille
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	William Paul Borsey Jr.
Born	August 25, 1950Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Origin	New York City
Died	August 6, 2009 (aged 58)New York City, New York, USA
Instrument	Vocals, guitar, harmonica, dobro
Genre	Americana, Rock, Soul, R&B; , Blues, Cajun, Latin, Cabaret, Mariachi, Creole, Doo-Wop, Country
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1968–2009
Label	Capitol, Atlantic, Polydor, Sky Ranch, Orleans Records, Fnac Music, Rhino, New Rose, EastWest, Discovery, Eagle
Associated acts	Mink DeVille, Fast Floyd, Jack Nitzsche, Dr. John, Doc Pomus, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny, Ben E. King, Mark Knopfler, Eddie Bo, Ernie K-Doe, Brenda Lee, Tom Waits, Los Lobos
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Willy DeVille (August 25, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American singer and songwriter. First with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, DeVille in his 35-year career created songs that are wholly original yet rooted in traditional American musical styles. DeVille worked with collaborators from across the spectrum of contemporary music, including Jack Nitzsche, Doc Pomus, Dr. John, Mark Knopfler, Allen Toussaint, and Eddie Bo. The typical DeVille song—if any of his songs can be called "typical"—is filled with romantic conviction and yearning. Latin rhythms, blues riffs, doo-wop, Cajun music, strains of French cabaret, and echoes of early-1960s uptown soul can be heard in DeVille's work.

Mink DeVille was a house band at CBGB, the historic New York City nightclub where punk rock was born in the mid-1970s. DeVille helped redefine the Brill Building sound. In 1987 his song "Storybook Love" was nominated for an Academy Award. After his move to New Orleans in 1988, he helped spark the roots revival of classic New Orleans R&B;. His soulful lyrics and explorations in Latin rhythms and sounds helped define a new musical style sometimes called "Spanish-Americana".

DeVille quit high school

As a teenager, DeVille played with friends from Stamford in a blues band called Billy & the Kids, and later in another band called The Immaculate Conception.

His next band, The Royal Pythons ("a gang that turned into a musical group" Their sound from this period is witnessed by Live at CBGB's, a 1976 compilation album of bands that played CBGB and for which the band contributed three songs.

In December 1976, Ben Edmonds, an A&R; man for Capitol Records signed the band to a contract with Capitol Records after spotting them at CBGB. Victory Mixture was recorded for a small independent label, Orleans Records, which licensed it to Sky Ranch (Fnac Music) in France. "It sold over 100,000 units in Europe very quickly—our first gold disc," said Carlo Ditta, founder of Orleans Records and the producer of Victory Mixture. Although DeVille complained about having to record in Los Angeles, recording in that city put him in touch with many talented Latino musicians who helped shape his distinctive Spanish-Americana sound.

For Backstreets of Desire, he was joined by David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Efrain Toro, Mariachi los Camperos, and Jimmy Zavala, as well as New Orleans musicians Dr. John and Zachary Richard and L.A. session musicians Jeff Baxter, Freebo, Jim Gilstrap, and Brian Ray. Allmusic said about the album:

Willy DeVille's Backstreets of Desire stands tall as his masterpiece as both a singer and a songwriter. DeVille's considerable reputation in Paris buoyed him up to make this disc... With guest spots by Dr. John, Zachary Richard, and David Hidalgo, DeVille creates a tapestry of roots rock and Crescent City second line, traces of '50s doo-wop, and elegant sweeping vistas of Spanish soul balladry, combined with lyrics full of busted-down heroes, hungry lovers, and wise men trying to get off the street. The sound of the album balances Creole soul and pure rock pyrotechnics. DeVille sounds like a man resurrected, digging as deep as the cavernous recesses of the human heart.

DeVille did not have a recording contract with an American label in the mid-1990s. His next two albums, Willy DeVille Live (1993) and Big Easy Fantasy (1995), were recorded for Fnac Music, a French label. Willy DeVille Live was a number one record in Spain.

In 1995, he returned to Los Angeles to record Loup Garou, again with producer John Philip Shenale. Musician said about the album: "Loup Garou is subtle in nuance but staggering in scope, it connects the dots between all of the artist's sacrosanct influences, often within the framework of a single song... All of it is on the money, performed from the heart..."

The cover of Loup Garou showed DeVille in turn-of-the-century New Orleans garb posing on a street corner in New Orleans' French Quarter. It included voodoo chants and a song subtitled "Vampire's Lullaby". The singer had completely immersed himself in New Orleans culture. Percussionist Boris Kinberg, a longtime member of the Mink DeVille Band, said about the stages of Willy DeVille's career:

To my mind there were three main eras. The first era was the Lower East Side, skinny tie, purple shirt, West Side Story, Puerto Rican Sharks gang vibe. Then it transmuted into the Mississippi plantation-gambler riverboat rogue, the Rhett Butler thing where he had had custom-made suits, and really got into the period and the clothes and just totally immersed himself in New Orleans, not the present New Orleans, but the New Orleans of the 1880s and 1890s—the Absinthe-drinking, voodoo New Orleans. He totally immersed himself in that. Then he left New Orleans and moved to the Southwest and came back as the second coming of Black Elk. She became his business manager. They lived in New Orleans and on a horse farm in Picayune, Mississippi. After her suicide in 2001, he married Nina Lagerwall (daughter of Sture Lagerwall), his third wife, and returned to New York City, where he spent the rest of his life. In February 2009, DeVille was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, and in May of that year doctors discovered pancreatic cancer in DeVille in the course of his Hepatitis C treatment. He died in New York City in the late hours of August 6, 2009, three weeks shy of his 59th birthday.

Legacy

About his legacy, DeVille told an interviewer, "I have a theory. I know that I'll sell much more records when I'm dead. It isn't very pleasant, but I have to get used to this idea."

Thom Jurek wrote about him after his death, "Willy DeVille is America's loss even if America doesn’t know it yet. The reason is simple: Like the very best rock and roll writers and performers in our history, he’s one of the very few who got it right; he understood what made a three-minute song great, and why it mattered—because it mattered to him. He lived and died with the audience in his shows, and he gave them something to remember when they left the theater, because he meant every single word of every song as he performed it. Europeans like that. In this jingoistic age of American pride, perhaps we can revisit our own true love of rock and roll by discovering Willy DeVille for the first time—or, at the very least, remember him for what he really was: an American original. The mythos and pathos in his songs, his voice, and his performances were born in these streets and cities and then given to the world who appreciated him much more than we did."

Singer Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band said about him, "He had all the roots of music that I love and had this whole street thing of R&B; — just the whole gestalt... He was just a tremendous talent; a true artist in the sense that he never compromised. He had a special vision and remained true to it."

Discography

: ''For a complete discography of Willy DeVille recordings, see Willy DeVille discography.

With Mink DeVille:

1977: Cabretta (in Europe); Mink Deville (in the U.S.) (Capitol)

1978: Return to Magenta (Capitol)

1980: Le Chat Bleu (Capitol)

1981: Coup de Grâce (Atlantic)

1983: Where Angels Fear to Tread (Atlantic)

1985: Sportin' Life (Polydor)

As Willy DeVille:

1987: Miracle (Polydor)

1990: Victory Mixture (Sky Ranch) 1990 (Orleans Records)

1992: Backstreets of Desire (Fnac Music) (Rhino, 1994)

1993: Willy DeVille Live (Fnac Music)

1995: Big Easy Fantasy (New Rose)

1995: Loup Garou (EastWest) (Discovery, 1996)

1999: Horse of a Different Color (EastWest)

2002: Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin (Eagle)

2004: Crow Jane Alley (Eagle)

2008: Pistola (Eagle)

References

External links

The Official Willy DeVille Website

Willy DeVille Social Network

Willy DeVille Photo Gallery

Willy DeVille and The Mink DeVille Band on MySpace

Interview with Willy at "Leap In The Dark with Richard Marcus"

FaceCulture: Video interview with Willy DeVille

"Music Obituaries: Willy DeVille" - Daily Telegraph obituary

"Willy DeVille, Mink DeVille Singer and Songwriter, Is Dead at 58" - New York Times obituary

"Willy DeVille, RIP: Remembering an American Original" - Allmusic obituary

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Caption	Tarantino at the Scream Awards, October 19, 2007
Birth name	Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Birth date	March 27, 1963
Birth place	Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor
Years active	1988–present

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and occasional actor. In the early 1990s he began his career as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and a Palme d'Or and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy awards.

Early life

Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician who was born in Queens, New York. He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 16. He attended acting school at the James Best Theatre Company in Toluca Lake. At age 22 he worked at the Video Archives, a defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach where he and fellow movie buffs, like Roger Avary, spent all day discussing cinema and recommending videos to customers. was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Rum Punch, a novel by Elmore Leonard. A homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of that genre's films of the 1970s. He had then planned to make the war film provisionally titled Inglourious Bastards, but postponed it to write and direct Kill Bill (released as two films, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia (Chinese martial arts), Jidaigeki (Japanese period cinema), Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror. It was based on a character (The Bride) and a plot that he and Kill Bill's lead actress, Uma Thurman, had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction. In 2004, Tarantino returned to Cannes, where he served as President of the Jury. Kill Bill was not in competition, Kill Bill Vol. 2 had an evening screening, while it was also shown on the morning of the final day in its original 3-hour-plus version with Quentin himself attending the full screening. Tarantino then went on to be credited as "Special Guest Director" in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

The next film project was Grindhouse, which he co-directed with Rodriguez. Released in theaters on April 6, 2007, Tarantino's contribution to the Grindhouse project was titled Death Proof. It began as a take on 1970s slasher films, stating that he wanted "to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they're genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it's ashamed of it, and other countries don't really deal with because they don't feel they have the right to".(1987) ! width=125px | Reservoir Dogs(1992) ! width=125px | Pulp Fiction(1994) ! width=125px | Four Rooms(1995) ! width=125px | Jackie Brown(1997) ! width=125px | Kill Bill, Vol. 1(2003) ! width=125px | Kill Bill, Vol. 2(2004) ! width=125px | Death Proof(2007) ! width=125px | Inglourious Basterds(2009) |- ! Brenda Hillhouse | || || || || || || || || |- ! Linda Kaye | || || || || || || || || |- ! Steve Buscemi | || || || || || || || || |- ! Harvey Keitel | || || || || || || || || |- ! Michael Madsen | || || || || || || || || |- ! Tim Roth | || || || || || || || || |- ! Paul Calderon | || || || || || || || || |- ! Kathy Griffin | || || || || || || || || |- ! Samuel L. Jackson | || || || || || || || || |- ! Uma Thurman | || || || || || || || || |- ! Bruce Willis | || || || || || || || || |- ! Michael Bowen | || || || || || || || || |- ! Sid Haig | || || || || || || || || |- ! David Carradine | || || || || || || || || |- ! Julie Dreyfus | || || || || || || || || |- ! James Parks | || || || || || || || || |- ! Michael Parks | || || || || || || || || |- ! Helen Kim | || || || || || || || || |- ! Michael Bacall | || || || || || || || || |- ! Omar Doom | || || || || || || || || |- ! Eli Roth | || || || || || || || || |- |}

Television directing

Tarantino has directed and been called to direct numerous television episodes.

Tarantino directed an episode of then-girlfriend Margaret Cho's 1994 television series, All American Girl.

Tarantino directed the season 20 (1994–1995 season) episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by John Travolta (musical guest: Seal), which featured a sketch called "Quentin Tarantino's Welcome Back, Kotter", a hybrid of the 1970s sitcom, Welcome Back, Kotter and Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs.

Tarantino directed the season 1, episode 24, of ER titled "Motherhood", that aired May 11, 1995.

In 1997, Tarantino was originally slated to direct the The X-Files episode, "Never Again" (episode 4x13, which originally aired February 2, 1997), but was prevented from doing so by the Directors Guild of America. The episode features Scully heading to Philadelphia, while Mulder is on vacation, to interview a man who claims his tattoo talks to him. Although the episode was written specifically for Tarantino to direct, the DGA contended that Tarantino, who is not a member, failed to compensate the union for lost revenue as a result of his directorial work on ER.

Tarantino's different style of film making earned him many accolades worldwide. According to Tarantino, a recurring hallmark in all his movies is that there is a different sense of humour in all his movies, which gets the audience to laugh at things that aren't funny.Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best First FeatureNominated — Grand Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival |- | 1994 | Pulp Fiction |Palme d'OrIndependent Spirit Award for Best DirectorIndependent Spirit Award for Best ScreenplayAcademy Award for Best Original ScreenplayBAFTA Award for Best Original ScreenplayGolden Globe Award for Best ScreenplayNominated — Academy Award for Best Director Nominated — Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated — [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|BAFTA Award or Best Director]]Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best FilmNominated — Directors Guild of America AwardNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director |- | 1995 | Four Rooms |segment The Man from Hollywood |- | 1997 | Jackie Brown |Nominated — Berlin International Film Festival |- | 2003 | |Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay |- | 2004 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 |Nominated — Grammy Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media |- | 2005 | Sin City |special guest director |- | 2007 | Death Proof |Nominated — Palme d'Or |- | 2009 | Inglourious Basterds |Nominated — Academy Award for Best DirectorNominated — Academy Award for Best PictureNominated — Academy Award for Best Original ScreenplayNominated — BAFTA Award for Best DirectionNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Original ScreenplayNominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best DirectorNominated — Directors Guild of America AwardNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best DirectorNominated — Palme d'OrNominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best DirectorNominated — Grammy Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media |- style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Television director |- style="text-align:center;" ! style="background:#ccc;"| Year ! style="background:#ccc;"| Series ! style="background:#ccc;"| Notes |- |1995 | ER |Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood" |- |2004 |Jimmy Kimmel Live! |April 20, 2004 |- |2005 | |Episodes "Grave Danger: Vols. I & II"Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Directing – Drama |}

See also

Quentin Tarantino Film Festival, a film festival in Austin, Texas hosted by Tarantino.

References

Further reading

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External links

Main reference sites

Quentin Tarantino at Rotten Tomatoes

Quentin Tarantino discography at Discogs

Quentin Tarantino at Last.fm

Quentin Tarantino on AnyClip

Interviews and Essays

Anatomy of a Tarantino Film at BrokenProjector

FilmFocus Interview

"I call the shots here" by Quentin Tarantino, March 4, 2007

Remaking History: An Interview with Quentin Tarantino by Rene Rodriguez, August 18, 2009

Quentin Tarantino: A Life in Pictures, filmed career retrospective by BAFTA, January 11, 2010

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez discuss their double feature, "Grindhouse", on Charlie Rose April 5, 2007

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cool: Appropriation and Prospects of Subversion in the Works of Quentin Tarantino

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Name	Link Wray
Landscape	Yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Frederick Lincoln Wray
Born	May 02, 1929Dunn, North Carolina, United States
Died	November 05, 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark
Instrument	Guitar, vocals
Genre	Rock and roll, rockabilly, roots rock, country, instrumental rock, surf rock, Protopunk
Occupation	Musician, songwriter
Years active	1956–2005

Frederick Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.

Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound, and also for having "invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarist,"

See also

Surf music

References

External links

LinkWray.com (formerly WraysShack3Tracks.com)

Link Wray's entry at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame

Link Wray's Place

Punk Rock Articles: Masculine Studs into Guitars, Link Wray - Photo Gallery

Perfect Sound Forever: Be Wild, Not Evil: The Link Wray Story

Mr. Guitar's City After Dark: Link Wray Obituary

Induct Link Wray

Vernon Wray - features some unreleased Link photos

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Name	Eddie Hodges
Birthdate	March 05, 1947
Birth place	Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, Singer
Yearsactive	1953 - 1996

Eddie Hodges (born March 5, 1947) is a United States former child actor and recording artist who left show business as an adult.

Biography

Early life and career

Hodges was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S. Hodges traveled to New York City with his family in 1952. This began a long career in show business for Hodges in films, on stage and popular recordings.

Acting career

Hodges made his professional acting debut on stage in Willson's 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man. He made his film debut in the 1959 film A Hole in the Head with Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson, in which Hodges and Sinatra performed a song called High Hopes. Hodges did not perform on Sinatra's hit recording of the song.

Hodges made eight feature films and numerous TV guest appearances. He is probably best remembered for the title role in Michael Curtiz's 1960 film 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is considered one of the best of the many attempts to film Mark Twain's classic. Both Hodges and his co-star as Jim, Archie Moore, received generally positive reviews for their performances. He also appeared in the 1963 Disney film Summer Magic and the 1967 film The Happiest Millionaire.

Guest appearances on network TV productions included Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Cimarron Strip and The Dick Van Dyke Show, among others. He was also a Mystery Guest on What's My Line?.

Recording career

At the age of 14, Hodges recorded for Cadence Records and his biggest hit was "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door" in 1961. He also scored a minor hit with "(Girls, Girls, Girls) Made to Love," a song written by Phil Everly and originally recorded by The Everly Brothers. He recorded for several other record labels. Before he left Hollywood, he was a union musician, record producer, song writer and music publisher. He collaborated with Tandyn Almer ("Along Comes Mary") with whom he wrote and published several songs and owned his own music publishing business. Hodges continues to write songs today but is no longer involved in the music business.

Personal life

Hodges was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, but remained in the USA in a non-combat assignment. After he was discharged, he returned to Hollywood and became disillusioned with show business. He decided to return to his native Mississippi and entered The University of Southern Mississippi where he received his B.A. in Psychology and an M.S. in Counseling. He became and is still a mental health counselor. He converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1998. He is divorced and has two grown children and four grandchildren. He occasionally gets in touch with his old show business friends and still writes songs, though he is unable to play guitar due to spinal nerve injuries. Hodges rode out Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and informed his fans that he was fine after being without water, electricity and telephone/internet contact for 19 days when the utilities were restored. He enjoys hearing from fans and makes occasional appearances around the USA.

References

External links

Eddie Hodges on What's My Line?

Eddie Hodges at Classic Movie Kids

Meeker Museum

Category:American child actors Category:1947 births Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism Category:People from Hattiesburg, Mississippi Category:Living people Category:United States Army soldiers Category:University of Southern Mississippi alumni