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John Williams

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    There Are Only Two Nominees For Best Original Song At This Year's Oscars

    A few years back the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences switched up the rules for Best Original Song, making the hurdles a track had to clear in order to get nominated a little more difficult and introducing the possibility that no songs at all would be nominated during a particular year. ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 2: Lana Del Rey, "Video Games"

    The Song: Lana Del Rey, "Video Games." The Crimes: Irritated-alley-cat vocals; overwrought harps; fundamental misunderstanding of whether or not ironic critique of male-female mores can exist in the Hipster Runoff age; this poor girl's right thigh. In 2011 the phrase "Lana Del Rey" wasn't just the ... More >>

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    Spielberg and Fincher: Taming Creatures

    WWI gets Spielberg’d; Fincher’s new girl in town

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    "These animals make a peculiarly plaintive cry when molested in any way": 1901's amazing, disturbing Living Animals of the World

    ​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Living Animals of the World: A Popular Natural History Magazine Date: 1901 Pu ... More >>

  • Film

    June 22, 2010

    Alain Resnais Does His Carrot-Topped Muse No Favors in Wild Grass

    ​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Living Animals of the World: A Popular Natural History Magazine Date: 1901 Pu ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2009

    'Star Wars in Concert'

    ​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Living Animals of the World: A Popular Natural History Magazine Date: 1901 Pu ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    ​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Living Animals of the World: A Popular Natural History Magazine Date: 1901 Pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Listening to John Hughes

    ​Jim DeRogatis has probably penned the definitive thing so far on John Hughes the music fan, complete with the eye-popping detail that while in Chicago, and "well into his prime years as a filmmaker, he loved nothing more than haunting the racks of vinyl at the old Wax Trax record store on Lin ... More >>

  • Music

    January 21, 2009

    Way More Important Things to Worry About

    How politics changed how we thought about music, if we thought about music at all

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    "I, Barack Hussein Obama..."

    12:00 p.m. Well, we have a new Vice-President at least. Biden swears in with J.P. Stevens. 12:03 p.m. Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and an all-star band play "Air and Simple Gifts" written by Star Wars composer John Williams. Giant crowd is quiet and respectful. 12:08 p.m. Here we go. Chief Justice R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Interview: Randy Newman on 'Harps and Angels' and Hurricane Katrina

    12:00 p.m. Well, we have a new Vice-President at least. Biden swears in with J.P. Stevens. 12:03 p.m. Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and an all-star band play "Air and Simple Gifts" written by Star Wars composer John Williams. Giant crowd is quiet and respectful. 12:08 p.m. Here we go. Chief Justice R ... More >>

  • Screens

    July 29, 2008

    Olympics Score Video Games: 0.0

    Videogames as gold-medal sport? Not this year, pal.

  • Dance

    April 10, 2007

    Throwing a Party

    Who said modern dance wasn't fun?

  • NYC Life

    July 18, 2006

    Wednesday 7/26

    Who said modern dance wasn't fun?

  • Music

    October 12, 2004

    Do-Gooders Do Good

    The most commendable political compilation of a watershed year for official liberalism

  • Film

    June 8, 2004

    Tom Delay

    Baggage claim: In Spielberg fable, Hanks's idiot savant takes American customs to heart

  • Specials

    January 14, 2003

    Letters

    Baggage claim: In Spielberg fable, Hanks's idiot savant takes American customs to heart

  • Film

    November 13, 2001

    Slack Magic

    Baggage claim: In Spielberg fable, Hanks's idiot savant takes American customs to heart

  • Music

    October 9, 2001

    Unpatriotic?! Moi?

    Baggage claim: In Spielberg fable, Hanks's idiot savant takes American customs to heart

  • Music

    June 6, 2000

    Everybody's Arranger

    Ralph Burns—From Woody Herman to Ray Charles to Bob Fosse

  • Long Island Voice

    November 2, 1999

    It takes two

    Ralph Burns—From Woody Herman to Ray Charles to Bob Fosse

  • Music

    October 26, 1999

    It Takes Two

    Ralph Burns—From Woody Herman to Ray Charles to Bob Fosse

  • News

    August 17, 1999

    Pee Wee's Excellent Career

    Reese over Rizzuto— and not just because of Robinson

  • Music

    June 29, 1999

    Old People Got No Reason

    Reese over Rizzuto— and not just because of Robinson

  • News

    May 11, 1999

    Tickets To Ride

    Life on the 'Star Wars' line

  • News

    May 11, 1999

    The Force Will Always Be with Us

    How 'Star Wars' Supplanted Religion, Mutated the Species, and Changed the Movies

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