The first time I heard, well, read about Richard Gere was in the 1990s. It was, I think, a feature in the Russian ELLE magazine. I didn’t see any of his films, but I was of age when it takes ver...
Truly, when/if you love doing something, you can find a thousand ways of doing it. The MopTops from L.A. have been a Beatles tribute band for years (and they’ve just reawakened my passion for Th...
Every time a new life is given to what seems an old, if classic, work we exclaim: “how was it ever possible?” The answer evidently has to do with the ability to see the opportunity to add ...
The Palm Sunday, or the Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem, is one of the movable feasts in the Christian calendar, celebrated one week before Easter...
To commemorate the mankind’s breakthrough into space, Attic Room Productions made a 1hr 39min film documenting Yuri Gagarin’s flight. Over at OpenCulture there are many useful links to exp...
On both sides of the Atlantic ocean we have two amazing performers and pop-pianists: Billy Joel and Elton John. I’ve posted songs by both of them in the past, but little did I know that they onc...
What I absolutely love this song by Celine Dion, is its almost Latin way of constructing a phrase. It was not uncommon in the language of the ancient Romans to drop various parts of the phrase in diff...
I think I’ve never yet told you that Jesus Christ Superstar was one of my all-time favourite rock operas. I first heard it in the 1990s on an audiotape; then I watched the film on the videotape;...
You should know either all four, or at least one of these names: Michel Legrand, The Thomas Crown Affair, Noel Harrison, and The Windmills of Your Mind. I’ve never seen Noel Harrison’s per...
I came home to find out that Elizabeth Taylor had left us. The first time I saw her was in The Taming of the Shrew when I was a teenager. The film was co-produced by Richard Burton and Franco Zeffirel...