Music and Movies Stuff

Hollywood actor Michael Douglas appeared Tuesday night on Late Night and talked about his stage-four throat cancer in a candid interview with host David Letterman. The two men hugged each other at the end of the interview. The 65-year old movie star only discovered he has a late-stage throat cancer three weeks ago.
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Disney-Pixar’s 3D computer-animated film, Toy Story 3, topped the list of the top-earning movies released for summer 2010 and became the first animated movie to pass the $1 billion mark and became the seventh film to do so at the worldwide box office. Toy Story 3 is the third film of the Toy Story series produced by Pixar Animation Studio and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is also the second film from Walt Disney Pictures to reach $1 billion in a year, after Alice In Wonderland, and marked the first time for a studio to have two billion-dollar films within just a single year.
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Paris Hilton once again had a brush with authorities when she was arrested in Las Vegas shortly before midnight last Friday for suspicion of felony cocaine possession. She was subsequently released according to her lawyer on Saturday.
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It seems that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not that keen about the Facebook movie entitled The Social Network scheduled to premier next month in the New York film Festival. The movie is about the founding of the very popular social networking site Facebook.
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Avatar 2, sequel to the very successful James Cameron film, Avatar, is underway with writer/director/producer James Cameron still at the helm. The first Avatar movie raked in over $2.7 billion worldwide. It is the highest grossing movie of all times, overtaking Titanic (also by James Cameron) which held the record for quite some time. This movie will be re-released this August 27 and the new version will feature the integration of the extra nine minutes that was not included in the film’s first release.
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Quantum of Solace starts barely hours after Casino Royale ends. Barely hours after escaping his death, Bond is once more on another mission to save the world. Still hurting from the betrayal of Vesper, his lover, it is difficult for Bond to keep this mission professional.
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Romantic comedies survived WW2 and the 20th Century nicely, becoming the staple entertainment items of Hollywood's 'Golden Age'. Cary Grant alone has made enough romantic comedies to last us for a while... THE AWFUL TRUTH, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, HOLIDAY, THE GRASS IS GREENER, OPERATION PETTICOAT, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, MY FAVORITE WIFE, HOUSEBOAT... the list goes on and on...
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The Great Train Robbery was a film made in 1903 and was the first American film that had a story to tell its audience. It was made by Edwin S. Porter and it lasted for eight minutes. This was a silent movie and had a "cops and robbers" plot, like a lot of films that followed it. Printed subtitles were eventually added to the silent movies in 1912. These subtitles were flashed together with the action scenes to help the audience understand what was happening. In order to add more drama and excitement to the scenes, an untiring pianist would play throughout the movie. He would switch from fast music for exciting or dramatic numbers to a more sentimental and slow music as the mood of the picture changed...
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While Hollywood delivers summer flops instead of money makers, i.e. Mission Impossible 3 and Poseidon, savvy people in the entertainment business seem to be moving ever closer to changing the way we go to the movies. Bram Cohen, the founder and inventor of the Bit Torrent application, which enables extremely fast downloads of large files, like movies,..
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