All All. Sign In. Despite having no real winter weather to speak of, living in Los Angeles often feels like looking out at the rest of the world from the inside of a snow globe. In January , L. The comfortable climate of Southern California usually provides ideal conditions for filming. This has long made the city a prime shooting location and has inspired thousands β even millions β of starry-eyed dreamers to move here from other cities.
Pleasant weather and railroads essential to trade a century ago played key parts in helping Hollywood emerge as the premiere destination for the entertainment industry. See full article at Indiewire. Love them or hate them, obsess over them or ignore them altogether, the Academy Awards are a cultural artifact whose history mirrors the very history of American film.
Granted, as a gatekeeping and taste-managing institution, the Oscars have always been better at belatedly following and responding to winds of change in the industry than at anticipating or provoking them, and you could probably count on your fingers the number of times that the Oscar statuette in any given category went to a genuinely bold, bracing, game-changing winner.
But they're as good a summation of the congealing of critical and commercial mainstream consensus over the decades as we film buffs have. And, as such, it's fascinating to look at the instances of the ultimate winner being so out of lockstep with that consensus as to cause an uproar.
As we gear up for the 97th Academy Awards in March , it's a See full article at Slash Film. Some classic rock bands define the bands that wrote them. The song was almost left in the dustbin of history. See full article at Showbiz Cheat Sheet. During a private audience at his penthouse office adjacent to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of six theatres controlled through his Lw Theatres group, the legendary composer of Phantom of the Opera and Evita gave Deadline an exclusive preview of three of the several numbers he has so far scored.
