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The Cannes Film Festival Premiers “Chelsea on the Rocks”
Chelsea on the Rocks, a new documentary about New York City's famous Chelsea Hotel, has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The documentary includes archival footage and interviews with many of the artists, writers and actors who have lived there. The Chelsea has been a mecca for bohemian artists for decades. At the present time, many fear that it will be lost to the corporate owners wanting to convert it into a fancy Manhattan boutique hotel.
Photographs, music, videos and a photo-gallery are included. Chelsea on the Rocks, a new documentary about New York City's famous Chelsea Hotel, has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The doc... more -
Revisiting Patti Smith: A Dream of Life
This article describes the life and times of Patti Smith, the godmother of punk music. It discusses the new documentary about her, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which is not a nostalgia act, but rather a journey about real things, like art, family and loss, and not the romantic death found in rock and roll lyrics, but the literal kind.
Photographs, videos and a photo-gallery are included. This article describes the life and times of Patti Smith, the godmother of punk music. It discusses the new documentary about her, Pa... more -
The Amazing Rufus Wainwright: A Revered Diva and Flawed Hero
Rufus Wainwright has been nominated for best International Male Solo Artist of the year at the Brit Music Awards to be held in London on Wednesday night, February 20, 2008. He was selected for the single,"Going to a Town," from his album "Release the Stars" (2007).
Earlier in his musical career, a flamboyant extravagance and narcissistic self-absorption pushed Wainwright to the edge of self-destruction. After his harrowing past experiences, Wainwright is desperate not to waste his chances all over again.
Photographs, a great photo-gallery and music videos are included with this article. The music videos include "Going to a Town" and the wonderfully elegant 2005 version of "Hallelujah" recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in Australia with his sister Martha Wainwright and friend, Joan Wasser. Rufus Wainwright has been nominated for best International Male Solo Artist of the year at the Brit Music Awards to be held in London ... more -
Patti Smith: An American Experience
"Patti Smith: An American Experience." Patti was living in New York's Chelsea Hotel with Robert Mapplethorpe, when she helped put punk-rock and the East Village punk-rock landmark CBGB on the map. The documentary "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" has just premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Photographs and music videos are included. "Patti Smith: An American Experience." Patti was living in New York's Chelsea Hotel with Robert Mapplethorpe, when she helped put pun... more
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