Masi Oka can. The NBC hit’s happiest hero promised it to reporters on a recent conference call promoting the series’ first-season DVD (released today), second-season TV premiere (Sept. 24 on NBC) and current Heroes World Tour, a global promotional jaunt by three different clusters of the show’s actors and producers.
(The World Tour hits New York Tuesday for a 9 a.m. “Heroes” DVD signing at The NBC Experience store in Rockefeller Center. Expected are cast members Noah Gray-Cabey, James Kyson Lee, Zachary Quinto and new arrival Dania Ramirez, plus artist Tim Sale and co-executive producer Jeph Loeb.)
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The National Dance Company of Korea will re-stage “The Scent of Spring” early next month, aiming to fascinate foreign audiences with the traditional Korean story and aesthetics. It will also serve as the opening piece for the inaugural International Festival of National Theaters scheduled Sept. 8 to Oct. 27.
Titled “Chum, Chunhyang” in Korean, the dance piece was first staged in 2002, choreographed by Bae Jung-hye, a renowned Korean dance expert, and produced by Kook Soo-ho, also a reputed Korean dancer and choreographer.
Chunhyang, whose name means “scent of spring,” is a beautiful girl who often appears in Korean folk tales, most notably in the namesake novel anonymously written in late Joseon Dynasty period.
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Campbell Webster admits it’s a daunting task to bring a new chapter in the life of Anne Shirley to the stage in the shadow of a musical that’s still enjoying worldwide success more than four decades after it was first produced.
But “Anne and Gilbert”, which picks up the story of the iconic, red-haired orphan where the original “Anne of Green Gables” musical ends, has enjoyed two years of packed theatres and glowing reviews in Summerside, P.E.I. It’s now set to move beyond the Island next year.
“It’s one of the most successful musicals in the world, so there is something to live up to,” says Webster, the show’s producer. “There is some heavy lifting in the idea of musicalizing it on stage.”
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Swerve Festival announced its initial lineup taking place September 28-30, including three premieres of independent feature films, plus screenings of additional short films and music videos. The FUEL TV initiative will also present a dynamic series of activities including free musical performances and art installations at the festival’s primary venue - the Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood.
“Swerve Festival isn’t just a film festival or a music festival or an art show-it’s all of these things,” says Jonathan Wells, Festival Director. “There’re no sidebars, all of our programs feature top-notch talent that stand on their own, yet are more cohesive as a whole. One of the trademarks of West Coast creative culture is the cross pollination of creative disciplines-art, music and film are interrelated and overlapping. This is the first festival to celebrate that.”
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For years, this specific music lovers’ lament has been leaking into a culture-wide complaint about the adverse effect of music videos on attention spans, race relations, sexuality and almost every conceivable issue related to teenage delinquency.
In the 1980s and ’90s, the restless, flickering imagery of MTV became virtually synonymous with attention deficit disorders. And the targeted bombardment of hormonally unbalanced teenage boys with a measured supply of bikini-clad babes aroused as much conservative ire as adolescent desire. But maybe it’s worth looking at the issue from another angle: from the point of view, for instance, of the art world.
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Cydney Robinson is the spokeswoman for the shoeless. She finds that toothless poverty in all of us, the barefoot truth, the humanity that is all too aware, the wisdom seldom spoken out loud, and the Kentucky weeds that grow inside.
“Jebadiah was a preacher… in… my… town…” An ominous beginning. You want the song to stop a moment. “The story of this song isn’t very nice. But the music is pretty.” Cydney Robinson spoke the warning. She opens every show with this song, opens the album with this song, and opens up the listener straight to the core.
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Hit me, baby, with
one more subpoena
NEW YORK – Kevin Federline now wants Britney Spears’ rehab records. K-Fed’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said Sunday that a chief administrator at Promises, the drug treatment facility where Brit completed a stint last March, had been served with a deposition subpoena over the weekend.
It was the fifth subpoena doled out by Mr. Federline’s lawyers, who are battling Britney for custody of the couple’s two young sons.
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A side effect of today’s fractured, tumultuous music industry is the fluctuating meaning of the greatest-hits album.
On one hand, it remains a giant moneymaker for labels, which are urging their artists to make best-of compilations increasingly earlier in their careers. On the other, iTunes has made it redundant. If you want an act’s highlights, you can assemble them yourself.
This dichotomy has, for some bands, made the decision to make a best-of album an increasingly difficult, sometimes contentious one. Some view greatest-hits albums as a blatant money grab that disrespects the integrity of the album. Pressure from labels can also come sooner than expected.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - In 2004, U.K.-based independent label Memphis Industries released the sample-heavy, intentionally lo-fi and daringly jarring “Thunder, Lightning, Strike,” the Go! Team’s debut full-length CD.
The buzz was deafening, so in 2005, the label entered a joint venture with Sony BMG to distribute the album internationally, with the major’s Columbia subsidiary handling it in the United States.
It’s a turn of events that every band dreams of — unless that band is the Go! Team.
The brainchild of Ian Parton, the Go! Team was never supposed to be mainstream. Parton set out to make “dirty” pop songs — danceable, catchy tunes that were enveloped by chaos and besieged by left turns.
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Retired country superstar Garth Brooks is still retired country superstar Garth Brooks, and he says he’ll stay that way until his youngest daughter graduates from high school in 2015.
But the biggest-selling country act in music history believes he’s still packing hits. On Saturday, he announced he’s putting out another boxed set — this one containing four new songs — and he spent time explaining that just because he’s retired from touring doesn’t mean he won’t compete for spins at country radio.
The presence of radio promotions wizard Scott Borchetta at the morning Renaissance Nashville Hotel news conference and the decision to corral 200 radio executives and dozens of music retailers in Music City for what was billed as the “Garth Radio Seminar” signals a seriousness about staying viable in the mainstream country market.
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