“I feel if I were to organize it correctly I would try to sing like a Mexican and think like a German. You know what I mean? I get it mixed up,” Linda Ronstadt joked to Rolling Stone in 1978. The quip was a comical reference to her Mexican-German heritage but also, in retrospect, a reflection of Ronstadt’s many musical influences and interests, along with the self-deprecating humor she has employed throughout more than five decades of music stardom. Born in July 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, where her father, Gilbert, the...
- 2/7/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Thirty-nine years ago next month, Linda Ronstadt released Mad Love, her tenth LP as a solo artist. Ronstadt had previously topped both the pop and country singles charts respectively with high-spirited takes on “You’re No Good” and “When Will I Be Loved,” but Mad Love put the singer in new-wave rock & roll territory. While it’s actually one of her most adventurously vibrant efforts – not to mention Grammy-nominated and her seventh straight million-seller – reviews of the album were decidedly mixed.
Nonetheless, when young pay-cable company Home Box Office came...
Nonetheless, when young pay-cable company Home Box Office came...
- 1/30/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
EdgeLight Films, (Elf), is a new and innovative Southern California based film production company, formed by a group of women filmmakers from both the Indie and Studio worlds. The mission is to make movies in all genres, that inspire the imagination, reveal truths, move the heart and to excellence in story telling.
One of the primary goals is to extend the reach to women filmmakers around the globe, making feature films, documentaries and short films, written, directed and produced by women, in association with the supportive male colleagues.
EdgeLight Films is dedicated to closing the pay gap between male and female talent. No leading actress will be paid less than her leading male counterpart of equal talent and billing position.
EdgeLight Films has gained the support of actor/director Rose McGowan who stated “This is a company whose ethos I wholeheartedly believe in.”
According to founder J.R. Niles, ''We want to make films that leave people inspired to reach higher, and at the same time creating more opportunities for women in film.” Niles currently has two short narrative films going out to festivals and joining her on her newest feature films, Bonds of Redemption and 51 Christopher Street, are the renowned Production Designer Jon Hutman and Cinematographer Amy Vincent.
In addition, EdgeLight has gained the support of producers, talent agents, managers, international film consultants like Sydney Levine and myself, and Director/Producer Salome Breziner.
The newest members of the EdgeLight Films producing team include, from "House of Cards" casting, Kimberly Skyrme, from the Chaplin Showcase of the Topanga Film Festival, Miranda Robin and Getty Photographer Nomi Ellenson.
J.R. Niles, a musician and recording artist in her own right, is joined in the music department by film and TV composer Bret Levick, who heads up the department. He will be a part of a broad make-up of music industry greats, including hit singer/songwriter Wendy Waldman, Jazz Singer Stacy Sullivan, film and TV Actress and Broadway Star Anastasia Barzee. EdgeLight has four features and two documentaries in development for 2015, 16 and 17.
You can learn more about this empowering company Here...
One of the primary goals is to extend the reach to women filmmakers around the globe, making feature films, documentaries and short films, written, directed and produced by women, in association with the supportive male colleagues.
EdgeLight Films is dedicated to closing the pay gap between male and female talent. No leading actress will be paid less than her leading male counterpart of equal talent and billing position.
EdgeLight Films has gained the support of actor/director Rose McGowan who stated “This is a company whose ethos I wholeheartedly believe in.”
According to founder J.R. Niles, ''We want to make films that leave people inspired to reach higher, and at the same time creating more opportunities for women in film.” Niles currently has two short narrative films going out to festivals and joining her on her newest feature films, Bonds of Redemption and 51 Christopher Street, are the renowned Production Designer Jon Hutman and Cinematographer Amy Vincent.
In addition, EdgeLight has gained the support of producers, talent agents, managers, international film consultants like Sydney Levine and myself, and Director/Producer Salome Breziner.
The newest members of the EdgeLight Films producing team include, from "House of Cards" casting, Kimberly Skyrme, from the Chaplin Showcase of the Topanga Film Festival, Miranda Robin and Getty Photographer Nomi Ellenson.
J.R. Niles, a musician and recording artist in her own right, is joined in the music department by film and TV composer Bret Levick, who heads up the department. He will be a part of a broad make-up of music industry greats, including hit singer/songwriter Wendy Waldman, Jazz Singer Stacy Sullivan, film and TV Actress and Broadway Star Anastasia Barzee. EdgeLight has four features and two documentaries in development for 2015, 16 and 17.
You can learn more about this empowering company Here...
- 3/17/2015
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Los Angeles (AP) — Kenny Edwards, an original member of the Stone Poneys country-rock band and longtime collaborator with singer-songwriters Linda Ronstadt and Karla Bonoff, has died in California at age 64. A statement on his website says he died Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times reports Edwards was hospitalized earlier this month in Denver after collapsing while on tour with Bonoff. He was airlifted to a hospital near his home in Santa Barbara where he died. After the Stone Poneys disbanded after their 1967 breakthrough hit "Different Drum," Edwards formed the folk-rock band Bryndle with singer-songwriter Wendy Waldman, Bonoff and Andrew...
- 8/23/2010
- by AP Staff
- Hitfix
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