Andy's Film Blog

Pete Seeger, who died earlier this week, was known as a walking repertoire of the American Songbook who added a few entries of his own an...

Martin Scorsese Directs  was one of the early entries in PBS' American Masters  series and was released in conjunction with the premi...

Born to Arkansan cotton farmers in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe would find her considerable voice in a traveling gospel choir, relocate to...

In 1960, Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird , her debut book and a contender for what could be the definitive American novel, det...

Carl Sandburg was born on a farm to Swedish parents in a small town in Illinois and worked a series of jobs as a laborer throughout the m...

Inventing David Geffen tells the story of a poor kid from Brooklyn who moved to L.A., got a job in the mail room at a prominent talent ...

From the day his cabbie uncle took him to see Anything Goes on Broadway, nine-year-old Melvin Kaminsky knew he was going to make it in sh...

Born into poverty in Oklahoma, where things would turn even more dire in the latter years of the Dust Bowl, and named after the President...

Born in working class Newark, New Jersey to a home he claimed had virtually no books present in it, Philip Roth would still discover a lo...

Born into a vaudevillian family as Frances Gumm, Judy Garland became a beloved, tragic, and highly polarizing entertainment icon. "B...

In writing Gone with the Wind , Margaret Mitchell crafted one of the defining works of American literature. Her own spirit, that of an ou...

Philip Glass is the reserved, minimalist composer who is famous for his resounding, hypnotic, and intentionally redundant pieces. Over th...

50 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe continues to tease and taunt men the world over. Yet she has grown to something greater than a s...

Gore Vidal, who died this past week, as an American author, historian, critic, screenwriter, attempted politician, and irascible iconocla...

In a salt mine under Hutchinson, Kansas lie the copies of over 4,500 episodes of The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson, placed there a...

I.M. Pei is one of the foremost and respected of the modern architects, with his unique buildings gracing many of the world's finest ...

James Levine has been the conductor for the Metropolitan Opera for over 40 years where he has transformed the establishment to its curren...

Although she grew up in an educated household in 19th Century New England, studying transcendentalism under Ralph Waldo Emerson and makin...

With his angelic voice and charismatic style, Sam Cooke was the first rhythm and blues singer to cross Gospel and Pop music. His epic car...

Cab Calloway was a charismatic jazz musician in the big band era who, compared to his contemporaries such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ell...