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It seems as if most performers now keep their real name when starting a career, but in the past it was very common for young beginners to choose a stage name, and they were sometimes pretty inventive. A good example of that occurred in the 1950s when Omaha-born rockabilly pioneer Barbara Morgan turned herself into Sparkle Moore. Her inspiration? A popular character named Sparkle Plenty, who appeared in the Dick Tracy comic strip. For those who don't remember, Sparkle Plenty was a little blonde toddler who first appeared in the strip in 1947 and grew to adulthood [...]

Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives. Madonna People have been asking me to tell my Madonna stories for years and since it's her birthday, here's one of them.  When the movie Dick Tracy was new and Madonna was filming Truth or Dare, she was part of a special benefit concert in Los Angeles.  As I have encountered so many times with her, she arrived and walked right past me without acknowledging that anyone around existed.  Madonna was rehearsing the song "Vogue," which was brand new at the [...]

The film Dick Tracy hit theaters in 1990 and had an all star cast that included Warren Beatty , Al Pacino , and Madonna . Twenty one years later, Beatty, who still owns the character rights is set to reprise the role of the famous detective. The film opened last weekend's L.A. Times Hero Complex Film Festival and Beatty attended the festival to talk about the film. The 74 year old actor/director held a [...]

The trailer for Filth and Wisdom , a movie variously described as "erotic", "playful", "poignant" and "touching" by its distributors, actually looks pretty good. Sure, that Ukrainian guy gets a tad irritating by the time the trailer reaches its close, but I'm sure I could learn to love his ethnic eccentricities over the course of 81 minutes. Yep, I'll probably go see this. Wait, what was that little split-second screen I missed? I'll just go back and watch that. Towards the beginning I think. I thought it said something about a director, and that director [...]

i'm updating this post as the download link expired. i'm not even going to pretend or aspire to a real appreciation of anything that madonna did after 1989. at the start of her career, madonna represented a backlash against society. it was punk for people who didn't like punk music. madonna swore, acted stupid and girly, married a bad boy and wore what the hell she liked. for me, things started to go downhill when she tried to morph into marilyn monroe for her true blue album in 1986. by the end of the decade she [...]