Songs On Screen: Tributes by writers to their favorite musical moments from TV and film. Check out all the entries in the series here. I remember the day my mother and sister discovered that I had not yet seen the movie, Beaches. Back in 2001, I was 13-years-old, and we were all hanging out in the kitchen as Jewish families do, noshing on chips, talking about nothing important, when all of a sudden, they audibly gasped, and hands swung to their chests, devastated at the news. “Where do you think the song, ‘The Wind Beneath My Wings,’ comes from?” my older sister, Jessica, asked. “I don’t know,” I said, getting defensive. “It’s just another love song, right? I like ‘The Rose’ better anyway.” “No, no. I mean, yes, that’s great, too. But you need to see Beaches,” Jessica shook her head. I was a freshman in high school...
- 6/26/2015
- by Emily Bicks
- Hitfix
It’s been quite a long time since Gary Busey was taken seriously as an actor of considerable talent, but back in 1978 he almost took home an Oscar for his spectacular portrayal of Buddy Holly in director Steve Rash’s controversial bio-pic, The Buddy Holly Story. Playing a 19 year old kid from Texas on the cusp of making rock and roll history at the age of 33, Busey lost a considerable amount of weight to embody the 146 pound front man, and more impressively, performed all of the songs sprinkled throughout the film live with a fictionalized version of Holly’s backing band, The Crickets. Though Busey’s portrayal was lauded, the film itself was harshly criticized not only for this fabricated characterization which reduced his real life three piece band, featuring Niki Sullivan, Joe B. Mauldin and J.I. Allison, to a fictional drum and bass duo in Jesse Charles (Don Stroud...
- 9/2/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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