So who is Ella Fitzgerald? To anyone that knows her music she’s a legend. She was singing when most of us weren’t even thought of yet and her voice has become something of a mythical sound that’s still very real. Ella started singing in 1934 and by 1942 had taken off on a solo career that took her through the rest of her impressive fifty-nine year career. In all that time she amassed one award after another as she collaborated with some of the best in the business and created songs that people still sing to this very day. The
The Top Uses of Ella Fitzgerald Songs in Movies or TV...
The Top Uses of Ella Fitzgerald Songs in Movies or TV...
- 12/17/2017
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
Even if you've never heard a note sung by Ella Fitzgerald and if that's the case, you should stop reading this review immediately and look up some of her recordings on YouTube Andrea Frierson's duo-bio solo show, Me amp Ella, can be related to by anyone whose life was influenced by a popular artist they've never met.
- 7/23/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Hugh Hefner has amassed 2,900 personal scrapbooks over the years – which not only constitutes a Guinness World Record, but helped form much of the basis for Amazon Prime’s new docu-series “American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story.”
The 10-part series also combs through thousands of hours of footage from Hefner’s and Playboy’s archives to tell the story of the entrepreneur, starting with the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953. From there, “American Playboy” shines a particular light on Hefner’s advocacy for civil rights, gay rights, freedom of speech and sexual freedom.
Read More: ‘American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story’ Announced: Amazon Unveils Docuseries Chronicling The Millionaire’s Empire
Among the interviewees on “American Playboy”: Jesse Jackson, Gene Simmons and Bill Maher. The series also includes reenactments of pivotal moments in Hefner’s life.
Stephen David Entertainment (“The Men Who Built America,” “The Making of the Mob”) produced “American Playboy,...
The 10-part series also combs through thousands of hours of footage from Hefner’s and Playboy’s archives to tell the story of the entrepreneur, starting with the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953. From there, “American Playboy” shines a particular light on Hefner’s advocacy for civil rights, gay rights, freedom of speech and sexual freedom.
Read More: ‘American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story’ Announced: Amazon Unveils Docuseries Chronicling The Millionaire’s Empire
Among the interviewees on “American Playboy”: Jesse Jackson, Gene Simmons and Bill Maher. The series also includes reenactments of pivotal moments in Hefner’s life.
Stephen David Entertainment (“The Men Who Built America,” “The Making of the Mob”) produced “American Playboy,...
- 4/7/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Gene Wilder's passing at the age of 83 from complications with Alzheimer's disease was a surprise to many - and that's how the iconic actor wanted it. Wilder hid his health struggles from the public and kept a low-key lifestyle in recent years, seldom being seen in public. But before his diagnosis three years ago, Wilder's nephew, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, tells People the actor "was living an idyllic life" in Connecticut and California. He spent his days playing tennis, writing and painting with his wife of almost 25 years Karen Boyer, a speech consultant he met while doing research for the 1989 film See No Evil,...
- 8/31/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit
- PEOPLE.com
Gene Wilder's passing at the age of 83 from complications with Alzheimer's disease was a surprise to many - and that's how the iconic actor wanted it. Wilder hid his health struggles from the public and kept a low-key lifestyle in recent years, seldom being seen in public. But before his diagnosis three years ago, Wilder's nephew, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, tells People the actor "was living an idyllic life" in Connecticut and California. He spent his days playing tennis, writing and painting with his wife of almost 25 years Karen Boyer, a speech consultant he met while doing research for the 1989 film See No Evil,...
- 8/31/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit
- PEOPLE.com
There's a semi-hidden Hollywood treasure in Deadpool. No, it's not star Ryan Reynolds, although he is perfectly cast; it's prolific, award-winning actress Leslie Uggams, who plays Deadpool's no-nonsense elderly roommate, Blind Al. Uggams' entertainment career spans six decades, countless stages and screens. One which began at the ripe old age of 6 and includes a Tony, an Emmy and performances with icons like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Charlton Heston. "I was a ham at 5, I was working at 6," Uggams, 72, tells People via a phone call from Chicago, where she is currently filming a guest arc on Empire.
- 2/18/2016
- by Kara Warner, @karawarner
- PEOPLE.com
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