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Sep 25, 2016 - 1:28 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In Spike Lee's MO' BETTER BLUES, Denzel Washington plays "Bleek Gilliam," a young man who becomes a handsome trumpet player with a way with women, and the leader of a quintet featuring "Shadow Henderson" (Wesley Snipes) as the saxophone player, "Bottom Hammer" (Bill Nunn) on bass, and "Left Hand Lacey" (Giancarlo Esposito) on the piano.
Denzel Washington's trumpeting was played by Terence Blanchard, and Branford Marsalis played the sax for Wesley Snipes. The music heard in the 1990 film when the actors are "playing" was performed by Marsalis' working band, which became the band for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" when Leno took over the show in 1992. Bill Lee provided the underscore for the film, his last. The Columbia Records soundtrack was a combination of jazz standards, new jazz tunes written by Branford Marsalis and others, and Lee's score.
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Sep 25, 2016 - 4:24 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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On the first day of the twentieth century, an infant is discovered in the coal room aboard a luxury liner, The Virginian. The worker, "Danny Boodmann" (played by Bill Nunn) who discovers the child, names him "1900" or more accurately "Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen-Hundred." Eight years later the boy loses his "father" in a ship accident but discovers an amazing ability to play the piano, and a legend is born. It is indeed THE LEGEND OF 1900, a fable by director Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO) based on a dramatic monologue by Italian novelist Alessandro Baricco. The story is about a musical prodigy (Tim Roth) who spends his life aboard a ship, sailing back and forth between the U.S. and Europe, entertaining the passengers with his unique talent, but never sharing it with the rest of the world. Ennio Morricone's score for the 1998 film was released by Sony Classical.
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Sep 26, 2016 - 2:52 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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"The Job" was a single-camera television comedy-drama about a New York City police officer named "Mike McNeil" (Denis Leary)--who indulges in adultery, alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription drug abuse--and his fellow 'bumbling detective' pals. Bill Nunn played Leary's partner, "Terrence 'Pip' Phillips," the good-conscience-with-a-halo to McNeil's horns-tail-and-pitchfork, chiding him for his bad behavior while simultaneously envying him a bit.
The show, which appeared to borrow the tone and look of "NYPD Blue" for semi-satirical purposes, was built around the Mike McNeil character, but relied on a strong ensemble cast. The show was filmed entirely on location in New York City. The series debuted in the spring of 2001 with 6 episodes, and was renewed for the following season. ABC heavily promoted the formula-defying show in the beginning, but its ratings plunged very soon after its debut. In the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the show's second season premiere was pulled, and the second season did not air until the spring of 2002. "The Job" couldn't compete against NBC's "The West Wing," which was the #10 rated show that season. "The Job" was cancelled after its 19th episode.
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Sep 26, 2016 - 7:58 PM
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CindyLover
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In REGARDING HENRY, "Henry Turner" (Harrison Ford) is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life into which he no longer fits. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife (Annette Benning) and daughter (Mikki Allen), and a dedicated, high-fiving physical therapist (Bill Nunn), a bear of a fellow who befriends and rehabilitates Henry. Mike Nichols directed this 1991 drama, which was written by J.J. Abrams. EMI released the Maurice Jarre score.
Actually Jarre's music was thrown out and replaced by an Hans Zimmer score, and that's what EMI released (Universal Music France issued some of Jarre's score on an album with his chucked-out Something Wicked This Way Comes).
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