ASCAP Screen Awards Honor Pasek & Paul, Pinar Toprak and Michael Giacchino,...
Richard Kind, the kindly goofball actor from “Spin City” and many Pixar films, opened the ASCAP Screen Music Awards with a bondage joke. “You wonder, why do I tell that to start off?” Kind said,...
View Article‘Little Mermaid’ Swims Back Into Hollywood Fishbowl for a Live-Sung Screening
It was November 17, 1989 when “The Little Mermaid” splashed into theaters. Its arrival loosed a Disney animation tsunami through the 1990s, resulting in a series of beloved films that are now...
View ArticleMoody Blues’ Justin Hayward Isn’t Burning Up Over What Got Lost in the Fire
Nobody called Justin Hayward about the fire on the Universal Studios Hollywood lot — not Universal Music Group, certainly, but also no reporters. “There were much more important people to call or to...
View Article‘Succession’ Composer Nicholas Britell on Making Music for the One Percent
The Roys, the media empire family at the heart of HBO’s “Succession,” are ridiculously rich. They’re manipulative and cruel. They’re also a bit delusional and absurd. When Nicholas Britell conceived...
View ArticleConcert Review: ‘Rocketman’ With Live Score (and, Briefly, Live Elton John)...
Elton John’s long victory lap — which has included an international farewell tour, an outrageously candid new memoir and a spangled biopic about his life — continued Thursday night under a cool night...
View ArticleConcert Review: ‘Apollo 13’ Revisited With Live to Picture Performance
A screening of “Apollo 13,” Ron Howard’s dramatization of the “successful failure” mission to the moon in 1970, doubled as a touching tribute to the film’s late composer, James Horner. The American...
View ArticleNatalie Merchant, ASCAP’s Philanthropy Honoree, Talks Business, Charity and …...
Natalie Merchant has always gone her own way. From her days as the swaying 1980s flower frontwoman of 10,000 Maniacs to her success as a singer-songwriter of bluesy folk ballads in the ’90s, she never...
View ArticleAs Collective Soul’s ‘The World I Know’ Turns 25, ‘It Still Really Gets Me,’...
No one really knew which record store bin to put Collective Soul in when the Atlanta band broke onto the scene — they were labeled everything from “bubblegum grunge” to southern blues-rock to neo-’60s...
View ArticleParis Jackson on Her Indie-Folk Debut Album, ‘Wilted’: ‘It Just Makes My...
The last time most of us saw Paris Jackson, she was 11 years old and crying. Taking the stage at Staples Center in June 2009 at her father’s star-studded memorial service, her famous aunts and uncles...
View ArticleRob Reiner Recalls Mark Knopfler’s ‘Princess Bride’ Score, as L.A. Phil Preps...
Mark Knopfler’s score for “The Princess Bride,” to quote the film, was only mostly dead. On Saturday, the L.A. Philharmonic will perform it live to picture at the Hollywood Bowl — and they really do...
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