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2012: Never too early to start planning
The Brits know how to do spectacle. So now that the Beijing Olympics are more than half over, London, host city for the 2012 Games, knows it has a tough act to follow. The Tempo subcommittee on Olympic Excess offers a few suggestions for the London...Tags: Amy Winehouse, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, Beijing Games
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'Shine a Light' shows the way
Chicago Tribune reporterMy brothers Tim and John are the big Rolling Stones fans in our family. But, for some reason, last April, I was the one smitten by "Shine a Light." Really smitten. The Martin Scorsese film, released last month on DVD by Paramount, is a high-energy and,...Tags: Paramount, Rock and Roll Music, Popular Music, Music, Mose Allison
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'Shine a Light'
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comAs "Shine a Light" opens, it looks as if it will be an epic battle of wills - the chaos of a Rolling Stones concert against the precision of director Martin Scorsese, the irresistible force of rock and roll against the unmovable object of filmmaking. The...Tags: Rock and Roll Music, Music, IMAX, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards
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Stones In The 'Light'
ORLANDO SENTINELThe archival clip from a 1972 TV interview that Mick Jagger did with Dick Cavett is comically prophetic. "Can you see yourself still doing this at 60?" Cavett asks, smirking as if he knows the answer. "Oh, absolutely," Mick smirks back. And why not?...Tags: Paramount, Music, New York, IMAX, Muddy Waters
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Stones roll with Scorsese in 'Shine a Light'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMICK JAGGER, dressed in lean, tailored perfection, was encamped recently in the bright, two-level tower suite atop the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, where he welcomed a visitor by offering a cup of English breakfast tea. Later that same day, 21...Tags: Music, Jean-Luc Godard, Theater, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Film Festivals
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Scorsese gets plenty of satisfaction from Stones
Sentinel Movie CriticOscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is knee-deep in his new film, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane's thriller Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley, among others. And he's stumped. Just a little. "This new movie is set in 1954,"...Tags: Rock and Roll Music, Popular Music, Music, Leonardo DiCaprio, New York
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Movie Review: 'Shine a Light'
As Mick Jagger makes his way down a hallway and toward the stage of New York's Beacon Theatre, he appears highly focused and a touch nervous. Even though it's his gazillionth show and he has painstakingly determined the appropriate set list for the...Tags: Christina Aguilera, Beacon Theater, Rock and Roll Music, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy
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'Shine a Light' (Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert film)
Tribune movie criticSTONES. SCORSESE. IMAX. The ads for the new Rolling Stones concert picture "Shine a Light" come at you like a three-way heavyweight title bout. There's also an undeniably corporate air to the packaging: three well-known brands converging for an event,...Tags: Paramount, Rock and Roll Music, Music, New York, IMAX
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Rolling Stones ignite the screen in 'Shine a Light'
Sun Movie Critic(A-) Shine a Light has two maestros, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, and once they begin to mesh, around the third or fourth song, they put on a display of showmanship that erases the line between art and entertainment. The great rock and roll bands...Tags: Paramount, Rock and Roll Music, Music, New York, Metal and Mineral
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Frampton finally enjoys the respect he didn't get as a pop star in the '70s
McClatchy/Tribune newspapersThe long-haired pretty boy of guitar is gone. In his place is a thoughtful rock technician. The star has given way to the artist, and Peter Frampton wouldn't have it any other way. The '70s superstar of "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Do You Feel Like We Do"...Tags: Music, Poetry, Awards and Prizes, Peter Frampton, Django Reinhardt
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Globetrotting Stones roll in
Newsday Staff WriterThe Rolling Stones put themselves on autopilot for about half their two-hour show Wednesday, but the sold-out crowd of 48,000 wasn't complaining. When your drummer is 65 and your guitarist recently underwent brain surgery; when you've been circling the...Tags: Rock and Roll Music, Firearms, Mick Jagger, Music, Defense
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The Big Bang
Once upon a time, giants thundered across the land: Moon, Bonham, Baker, Palmer. These sweaty and indifferently groomed young men gave the world that curious and hard-to-love artifact of rock, the drum solo.
Won't somebody please hold up a flaming...Tags: Moby, Sting, Santa Monica, Rock and Roll Music, Dan Neil
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