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'Bandleader' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Buying the Cow (2002)

Actors

Plot
David Collins is a commmitment-shy Los Angeles yuppie whose girlfriend of many years, advertising executive Sarah, gives him an ultimatum: commit or get out. David has two months to decide if he wants to stay with Sarah as she leaves town for a job in New York. Following the advice from his more outgoing friends, David hits the dating scene as he tries to find his one and only soul mate, a mysterious woman he sees again and again, but always gets away before he can talk to her.

Keywords: airplane, airport, animal-in-title, animated-credits, answering-machine, apology, aquarium, band, bar, bar-mitzvah

Genres

Taglines:

Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?

Quotes:

Mike Hanson: You should stop drinking.::Girl in Bar: Why? I just got here.::Mike Hanson: Because you're driving me home.

[opens car door to see Mike Kissing a girl]::Tyler Carter Bellows: I thought you said you're gay.::Mike Hanson: Yeah, and your point is?

Mike: Always a best man, never a man.

Mike: A blind man could smell your love.

Nicole: That's when you need to say, "Buddy boy, it's time to shit or get off the pot."::Sarah: And I would be the "shit" part of that analogy?

Jonesy: You're still not telling us everything.::David Collins: Of course not, you're my friends.

David Collins: You're the only people I've ever told.::Mike Hanson: Yeah, can you keep it that way? It makes you seem kind of creepy.

Amy: [after Mike gives her a dollar when she's stripping] Wow! A dollar! Now I can quit stripping, go back to vet school, and save my sick pony.

[the waitress is missing her right forearm]::David Collins: [nervous] How's the chili here?::Mexican Restaurant Waitress: [Surly and blasé] I'd give my right arm for a bowl.

Amy: I'm just finding it so hard to know what I want Oh, if you're like most people darlin' it's right about the time you found something worth wanting.

The Rat Pack (1998)

Actors

Plot
In the 1950's and 1960's Frank Sinatra was the head of the infamous "Rat Pack". He, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop worked and played together. This film dramatizes their volatile relationships with each other and the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, mobster Sam Giancano, Judith Cambell and the FBI. Sinatra helps John Kennedy get elected in 1960 with a little help from Giancano. Lawford, married to a Kennedy, is an unhappy go-between. Davis is fighting racism and insecurity. Cambell is sleeping with both Giancano and JFK who is also sleeping with Monroe.

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, actor, brother, entertainer, fbi, friendship, interracial, interracial-relationship, italian-american

Genres

Drama

Taglines:

It was their world. We just lived in it.
They never let business get in the way of having fun.
They never let the rules get in the way of having fun.

Quotes:

Peter Lawford: I'm an actor, Frank! All I want to do is act in movies, and cheat on my wife. Is that too much to ask?

Frank Sinatra: If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

Frank Sinatra: How tall are you, Peter?::Peter Lawford: About six foot one.::Frank Sinatra: Don't cut yourself off at the knees.

Frank Sinatra: [to Mia Farrow] You walk out that door baby, you walk out of my life!

Joey Bishop: Hey, did we kill tonight or what? [Dean does not reply] We killed tonight. I haven't laughed like that...::Dean Martin: ...since I played a little club in Poughkeepse back in 1944.::Joey Bishop: What're you saying, we weren't funny tonight?::Dean Martin: What I'm saying is erm... watch this. [to two women] Scuse me ladies [he babbles, and they laugh]::Joey Bishop: Yeah, so?::Dean Martin: So, the world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment pally. One of these days everybody's gonna wake up with a heck of a hangover, down two aspirin and a glass of tomato juice and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.

Frank Sinatra: There's a reason why we're all here tonight...::Dean Martin: You threatened us. [laughter] Did he threaten you too Sammy?::Sammy Davis, Jr.: Um, I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it might incinerate me baby.

Dean Martin: Hey Frank, how do you make a fruit cordial?::Frank Sinatra: I don't know Dean, how do you make a fruit cordial?::Dean Martin: Be nice to it.

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Actors

Plot
In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half of the population is suffering from the Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS).Johnny with an inplanted memory chip in his brain was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark. While Pharmakom Industries supported by yakuza tries to capture him to get the informaiton back, the Low-tech group led by J-Bone tries to break the missing code to download the cure of NAS which Johnny carries.

Keywords: 2000s, 2020s, amnesia, artificial-intelligence, bad-guy, based-on-story, beijing-china, bow-and-arrow, burning-building, character-name-in-title

Genres

Taglines:

The future's most wanted fugitive.
The Ultimate Hard Drive
The hottest data on earth. In the coolest head in town.
The danger is all in his head
A pulse-pouding cyber-slam

Quotes:

Johnny Mnemonic: I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.

Johnny Mnemonic: What the fuck is going on? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? You know, all my life, I've been careful to stay in my own corner. Looking out for Number One... no complications. Now, suddenly, I'm responsible for the *entire fucking world*, and everybody and his mother is trying to kill me, IF... IF... my head doesn't blow up first.::Jane: Maybe it's not just about you any more.::Johnny Mnemonic: Listen. You listen to me. You see that city over there? THAT'S where I'm supposed to be. Not down here with the dogs, and the garbage, and the fucking last month's newspapers blowing *back* and *forth*. I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS - *I want ROOM SERVICE*! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker! I want my shirts laundered... like they do... at the Imperial Hotel... in Tokyo.

Johnny Mnemonic: You can't shoot me.::Takahashi: Not in the head.

Johnny Mnemonic: If I fall, you don't get the head, right? If you lose the head, you're fucked!

Johnny Mnemonic: They'll negotiate; they're corporate.::Jane: So's the Yakuza.

Street Preacher: Come to Jesus!

Street Preacher: [gets back on his feet after being struck by Spider's van] [mumbles] Jesus.

Street Preacher: Jesus time.

Jane: [Johnny successfully picks a lock to a door of an electronic store] Where did you learn to do that?::Johnny Mnemonic: Had a summer job breaking and entering.

J-Bone: [at the base of the LoTek headquarters: Heaven] Where's Spider?::Jane: He's dead.::J-Bone: [looks over at the twisted and burning hulk that was once Spider's van]::Jane: [shakes head] No, not there. Earlier.

Musik aus aller Welt (1961)

Actors

Genres

Music

Merry Andrew (1958)

Actors

Plot
Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).

Keywords: acrobat, aerialist, archeology, bicycle, brother, cave-in, chess, chimpanzee, circus, clown

Genres

Face the Music (1954)

Actors

Plot
Brad Bradley (Alex Nicol) is a famous trumpet player who is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects down to four people, after surviving some fights and having poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet.

Keywords: address-book, agent, band, bar-fight, based-on-novel, blues-singer, bouquet-of-flowers, box-of-candy, box-of-chocolates, breaking-down-a-door

Genres

Crime
Drama

Taglines:

LOOK OUT...It's Loaded!
Excitement! Thrills! Suspense! will grip you like never before!

Quotes:

James 'Brad' Bradley: Strangest feeling in the back of my neck that somebody might throw a knife at me any minute.::Barbara Quigley: Turn your back to the wall and there won't be room for anybody to throw anything.::James 'Brad' Bradley: I feel like I've had my back to the wall ever since I set foot in this country.

Maxine Halbard: How long do you like your spaghetti cooked?::James 'Brad' Bradley: Oh... about... about ten inches. Have you lived here all your life?::Maxine Halbard: Not yet.

Maxine Halbard: The night's a kitten. Let's give her some milk.::James 'Brad' Bradley: What's this?::Maxine Halbard: Sherry - nice and dry and Spanish.::James 'Brad' Bradley: I like mine wet.::Maxine Halbard: The only other thing you can have is water.::James 'Brad' Bradley: Oh, no, no, no. Never touch it - unhygenic.::Maxine Halbard: Drink up and don't talk.

James 'Brad' Bradley: I gotta go.::Maxine Halbard: Why?::James 'Brad' Bradley: Ask the clock.

James 'Brad' Bradley: [narrating as he enters a dingy club] This didn't look like a safe place to take your mother. In fact, it looked like a place you leave horizontally or not at all.

James 'Brad' Bradley: [apologizing after being bumped into the musicians] Can I, uh, can I get you a drink to make it up?::Barbara Quigley: I wouldn't use force to stop you. [as Brad is walking away] Ask the man for the bottle! [he does a double take]::James 'Brad' Bradley: [sarcastically, to the bartender] If I asked her if she wanted a smoke, do you think she'd order a flamethrower?::Bartender: Ask her and see.

Storm Over Lisbon (1944)

Actors

Plot
Deresco owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig with help from immigrant dancer Maritza, but she falls in love with him. Craig becomes a special "guest" at Deresco's casino, but there you can't be sure of the occupation of everybody, as well as in their political intention...

Keywords: nightclub, spy, world-war-two

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Meet the Kernel (1936)

Actors

Genres

Music
Short

Stepping Stones (1931)

Actors

Genres

Musical

Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra (1928)

Actors

Genres

Music
Short

Band Leader Acústico 2014 10 de Junho

Duration: 189:46
Updated: 11 Jun 2014

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Fred Armisen Is the Late Night Bandleader

Duration: 4:26
Updated: 25 Feb 2014

Jimmy asks Fred about his new role as the bandleader for Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Fred talks about some changes he may bring to the job. Subscribe NOW to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://bit.ly/1nwT1aN Watch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Weeknights 11:35/10:35c Get more Jimmy Fallon: Follow Jimmy: http://Twitter.com/JimmyFallon Like Jimmy: https://Facebook.com/JimmyFallon Get more The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Follow The Tonight Show: http://Twitter.com/FallonTonight Like The Tonight Show: https://Facebook.com/FallonTonight The Tonight Show Tumblr: http://fallontonight.tumblr.com/ Get more NBC: NBC YouTube: http://bit.ly/1dM1qBH Like NBC: http://Facebook.com/NBC Follow NBC: http://Twitter.com/NBC NBC Tumblr: http://nbctv.tumblr.com/ NBC Google+: https://plus.google.com/+NBC/posts The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon features hilarious highlights from the show including: comedy sketches, music parodies, celebrity interviews, ridiculous games, and, of course, Jimmy's Thank You Notes and hashtags! You'll also find behind the scenes videos and other great web exclusives. Fred Armisen Is the Late Night Band Leader http://www.youtube.com/fallontonight

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I'm a Band Leader - Captain Beefheart

Duration: 1:18
Updated: 05 Aug 2013

Don informs us on how important he is on Frank Zappa's Lost Episodes Album.

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DJ Enuff & Timbaland - BandLeader

Duration: 4:18
Updated: 17 Jul 2013

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Adam Levy On Being a Band Leader

Duration: 4:57
Updated: 07 Jun 2013

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org - Guitarist and songwriter Adam Levy (Norah Jones) relates how he approaches assembling and leading a band, and m...

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Dan Fogelberg - Leader of the Band

Duration: 4:21
Updated: 18 Aug 2013

Lyrics: An only child Alone and wild A cabinet maker's son His hands were meant For different work And his heart was known To none -- He left his home And we...

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How NOT to be a band leader

Duration: 1:40
Updated: 15 Aug 2013

I saw this local Aussie band playing in Taiwan (i think one of them had a twese girlfriend or something so they decided to play there...hope it wasn`t to imp...

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Denise Rachel Dion band Leader

Duration: 16:06
Updated: 14 Apr 2013

Live in Peru, 2013.

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Cirque du Soleil - Kooza Bandleader - Charivari

Duration: 3:16
Updated: 25 Jun 2014

A clip of Jim playing trombones and leading the band in "Charivari," the opening part of Kooza.

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Legendary Jazz Bassist Ron Carter on Being a Bassist and Bandleader

Duration: 3:41
Updated: 07 Jun 2013

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org - Jazz icon Ron Carter shares his thoughts and experiences from decades of leading a band from the bass chair, in...

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Sasha Jacques - Band Leader Showreel

Duration: 3:47
Updated: 21 Nov 2013

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O'Malley's March at the Avalon Theatre

Duration: 5:44
Updated: 08 Jul 2013

O'Malley's March at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, Maryland.

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michelle marching band leader

Duration: 2:18
Updated: 17 Jun 2012

michelle marching band leader at TK Bina Insani.

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I ain't no band leader

Duration: 1:50
Updated: 28 Feb 2012

Gfather I

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Band Leader Acústico 9 de Junho 2014

Duration: 220:41
Updated: 10 Jun 2014

Apresentação do alunos da Band Leader Escola de Música

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Novecento musical bandleader

Duration: 3:41
Updated: 03 Sep 2013

Hochgeladen mit Free Video Converter von Freemake http://www.freemake.com/de/free_video_converter/

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Cirque du Soleil - Kooza Bandleader - Cyr Wheel

Duration: 3:43
Updated: 20 May 2014

An excerpt of Jim leading the Kooza band and playing trombone. This is Jim's arrangement of Kooza's Wheel of Death music, for the new Cyr Wheel act. Ghislain Ramage performs in the wheel.

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Red Rocks Zac Brown Band Leader of the Band Cover

Duration: 4:51
Updated: 15 May 2013

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Seth Meyers Names Fred Armisen 'Late Night' Bandleader

Duration: 1:12
Updated: 12 Feb 2014

In a tweet Monday the show announced, "*drum roll please* Beyond excited to announce Fred Armisen will be joining #LNSM as @SethMeyers' band leader!"

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Angry Cover Band Leader

Duration: 3:13
Updated: 23 Jun 2013

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2009 TV Interview with bandleader / Entrevista de TV del 2009 con el lider del grupo.

Duration: 2:14
Updated: 16 Aug 2013

This clip is from a 3-6-2009 live TV performance and interview with Roderick Camelia, in which he explains the difference between his type of latinjazz and others. For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/camelialatinband. Este clip es de una presentación y entrevista del 3-6-2009 con Roderick Camelia, en que explica la diferencia entre este tipo de latinjazz y los otros. Para obtener más información, visite el www.myspace.com/camelialatinband .

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Interview with Petoskey Steel Drum Band Leader Barry Bennett

Duration: 9:29
Updated: 05 Dec 2013

Interview with Petoskey Steel Drum Band Leader Barry Bennett at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Petoskey, Michigan

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Band Leader 2009 - YYZ

Duration: 4:44
Updated: 13 Jun 2013

22 YYZ (Rush) Alfredo Hahn (Guitarra) Dario Dragone (Baixo) Gabriel Baldauf (Bateria) João Rego (Teclados) Thomas Togni (Guitarra)

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Palestinian relatives mourn during the funeral of fifteen members of the Abu zeid, Duheir and al-Hashash families, killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on July 29, 2014.

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Sinister Edge To Israel's Divisions Over Gaza

Skynews

09 Aug 2014

Five years ago I covered Operation Cast Lead, the precursor to Israel's recent offensive against Hamas in Gaza. This week I went back for the latest sequel and its aftermath. Some things were different, but depressingly despite the passage of the time, many things were the same. This time the Israelis allowed the world's media into Gaza, rather than keeping them out and stuck on one hill overlooking the coastal strip ... He says....(size: 6.0Kb)

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President Barack Obama delivers a policy address on events in the Middle East at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2011.

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Iraq conflict: Obama vows to stop jihadist state

BBC News

09 Aug 2014

US President Barack Obama has said he will not allow Sunni Muslim jihadists to carve out a "caliphate", or Islamic state, straddling Syria and Iraq. The US has been carrying out air strikes on Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq. Mr Obama said there would be further air strikes if necessary but no US military operation on the ground ... US President Barack Obama ... the US cannot just look away" ... 'We can run them off' ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)

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Federal Palace of Switzerland (Swiss Parliament Building) The structure of Bern's city centre is largely medieval and has been recognised by UNESCO as a Cultural World Heritage Site.

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Swiss parliament secretary tweets naked truth to 11 000

Independent online (SA)

07 Aug 2014

A secretary who posted nude pictures of herself in the Swiss parliament to more than 11 000 followers on Twitter told a newspaper yesterday she did not believe she had broken any rules ... The report did not say why she had posted them ... – Reuters. ....(size: 1.3Kb)

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Rock-umentary remembering Dallas’ music history to air on KERA Tuesday

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

Kirby Warnock’s rock-umentary When Dallas Rocked has been making the local theater rounds since last year. Now, finally, anyone near a television set will get to flash back to the days when Dallas, not Austin, was the center of the Texas rock ’n’ roll universe, with Buddy magazine serving as the road map ... There’s a lot of promise here today.” ... St. Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 5.1Kb)

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Fiction review: ‘The Kills,’ by Richard House

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

“Listen. There’s a problem that can’t be solved.”. That statement appearing early on in Richard House’s strenuous — and stretched — work of fiction announces what soon becomes obvious to readers who persist in following the twisting cul-de-sacs that shoot off in many directions to form this novel ... “Do book-prize judges read every entry?” ... The Kills ... Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 6.5Kb)

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Just hours from Dallas, Shreveport shows off its creative side

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

SHREVEPORT, La. — This city on the Red River is only a three-hour drive from Dallas and a trip well worth taking for anyone who revels in the arts. For one, it brims with show-biz lore. Shreveport played host to the Louisiana Hayride from 1948 to 1960, during which a gyrating Elvis Presley swiveled his hips on numerous hot nights ... 23 ... Madison Ave ... 15 ... Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 6.7Kb)

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Fiction review: ‘Song of the Shank,’ by Jeffery Renard Allen

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

Song of the Shank, Jeffery Renard Allen’s epic and brilliant novel about slavery and musical genius, is not an easy book to read. There is, for starters, the book’s odd and sometimes confounding protagonist, based on a real man who is most often referred to in historical accounts as “Blind Tom .”. “He isn’t talking ... Allen is also a published poet ... Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 7.0Kb)

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Fiction review: ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

I can’t think of a book that has more wittily and movingly encapsulated the years from 1939 to 1949, covering both the Second World War and the periods just before and after, than Amy Bloom’s latest, Lucky Us ... The book’s protagonist, Eva Acton, might be able to help me with that past-life-connection thing ... “My father’s wife died ... Laura Klynstra ... St. Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 7.4Kb)

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Fiction review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,’ by Haruki Murakami

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

In Japan, the publication of a Haruki Murakami book is met with frenzied anticipation. His new novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, sold more than 1 million copies the first week it was released there ... Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki alights in some mysterious places but doesn’t settle there ... books@dallasnews.com ... Haruki Murakami ... Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 7.4Kb)

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Review: ‘Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker’

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

It’s a good thing that the dust jacket for Doug J. Swanson’s Blood Aces identifies the book as nonfiction, because no one would believe it if it were advertised as a novel ... Binion’s name has floated around the edge of the history of Texas, Las Vegas and organized crime for decades, but Swanson is the first to put all the pieces together ... Doug J ... St. Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 8.2Kb)

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Art revew: Hand-wringing at Site Santa Fe

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

SANTA FE, N.M. — Not to be confused with the Canyon Road hawkers of brightly colored American Indian scenes and turquoise tchotchkes, Site Santa Fe is a serious museum of contemporary art. In 1995, it also became an American pioneer in the biennial art show phenomenon that has swept the world ... It’s a guilt trip through American history ... Top Picks ... Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 8.4Kb)

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The Thug Club: When Benny Binion’s Dallas was a gambling mecca

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

In the 1930s, Dallas was a gambling mecca. This look at that era comes from Doug J. Swanson’s Blood Aces. The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker, which will be published by Viking on Thursday. The Southland Hotel, 1200 Main St. at Murphy in downtown Dallas, had 200 rooms, 70 of which were air-conditioned ... H.L ... St. Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 10.6Kb)

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Texas Classics: ‘This Writer’s Sense of Place,’ by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

The Dallas Morning News

09 Aug 2014

About this excerpt. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith received the 2013 National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award for his novels, short stories and nonfiction works — the most recent of many recognitions he has received both in the U.S. and internationally over the past 40 years ... Hinojosa went Faulkner one better, however ... W.K ... St. Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 16.1Kb)

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Review: TV version of ‘Outlander’ will sweep you away

The Dallas Morning News

08 Aug 2014

At first glance, it might seem easy to adapt fantasy fiction for television. After all, it’s made up anyway, so it should be no biggie beyond the cost of special effects, right?. Not at all, of course ... And that takes great writing ... Some 25 million Outlander series books have been sold in 26 countries and translated into 23 languages ... Outlander ... St. Vincent to fill in for 'Portlandia' pal Fred Armisen as 'Late Night' bandleader next week....(size: 7.0Kb)

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Musician dad of girl killed in Newtown plans album

The Miami Herald

07 Aug 2014

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- After his 6-year-old daughter was killed in the Newtown school shooting, Jimmy Greene found a homemade book on her desk titled "Ana's flower book for Dad." ... She was one of them. We lost her." ... Greene, an internationally renowned jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader, is preparing an album called "Beautiful Life," inspired by and dedicated to his daughter, which he hopes to release before the end of the year ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)

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Renowned Jazz Musician Plans Album In Honor Of Daughter Killed At Sandy Hook

Huffington Post

07 Aug 2014

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — After his 6-year-old daughter was killed in the Newtown school shooting, Jimmy Greene found a homemade book on her desk titled "Ana's flower book for Dad." ... She was one of them. We lost her." ... Greene, an internationally renowned jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader, is preparing an album called "Beautiful Life," inspired by and dedicated to his daughter, which he hopes to release before the end of the year ... ....(size: 3.5Kb)

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