Myles Goodwyn, frontman of the longstanding Canadian rock band April Wine, died Sunday (December 3rd) at age 75. According to his publicist, the singer-guitarist was “suffering from a lot of health issues,” although no specific cause of death was mentioned.
Goodwyn formed April Wine in Nova Scotia in 1969, and remained their frontman until earlier this year, when he stepped away from live performances with the band citing his struggles with diabetes and other health problems. However, Goodwyn did continue to perform with his acoustic trio up until very recently.
Other than a hiatus from 1986 to 1992, April Wine released a steady stream of albums. They scored mainstream hits with songs like “Just Between You and Me” and “Enough Is Enough.” The band’s 1981 LP, The Nature of the Beast, went platinum in the United States.
Overall, Goodwyn released 16 albums with April Wine, with the most recent being 2006’s Roughly Speaking. He also...
Goodwyn formed April Wine in Nova Scotia in 1969, and remained their frontman until earlier this year, when he stepped away from live performances with the band citing his struggles with diabetes and other health problems. However, Goodwyn did continue to perform with his acoustic trio up until very recently.
Other than a hiatus from 1986 to 1992, April Wine released a steady stream of albums. They scored mainstream hits with songs like “Just Between You and Me” and “Enough Is Enough.” The band’s 1981 LP, The Nature of the Beast, went platinum in the United States.
Overall, Goodwyn released 16 albums with April Wine, with the most recent being 2006’s Roughly Speaking. He also...
- 12/4/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Myles Goodwyn, the founding frontman and guitarist for platinum Canadian rock band April Wine who wrote and sang such hits as “Sign of the Gypsy Queen,” “Roller” and “I Like to Rock,” died December 4. He was 75.
No further details on cause of death, location or funeral details will be disclosed, according to a spokesman.
Founded in Nova Scotia in 1969 and based in Montreal, April Wine has sold more than 10 million records worldwide. The group broke out with its 1972 sophomore album On Record, which featured “You Could Have Been a Lady,” a No. 2 hit in Canada that dented the U.S. Top 40. The band continued on nearly an album-a-year pace through the 1970s, with 1976’s The Whole World Is Going Crazy topping the Canadian chart.
April Wine returned to the U.S. charts with First Glance (1978), which featured the hard-rocking Top 40 U.S. single “Roller.” It was a prime example of...
No further details on cause of death, location or funeral details will be disclosed, according to a spokesman.
Founded in Nova Scotia in 1969 and based in Montreal, April Wine has sold more than 10 million records worldwide. The group broke out with its 1972 sophomore album On Record, which featured “You Could Have Been a Lady,” a No. 2 hit in Canada that dented the U.S. Top 40. The band continued on nearly an album-a-year pace through the 1970s, with 1976’s The Whole World Is Going Crazy topping the Canadian chart.
April Wine returned to the U.S. charts with First Glance (1978), which featured the hard-rocking Top 40 U.S. single “Roller.” It was a prime example of...
- 12/3/2023
- by Bruce Haring and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Mad Magician
3-D Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1954 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 72 min. / Street Date January 10, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Donald Randolph, Lenita Lane, Patrick O’Neal, Jay Novello, Corey Allen, Conrad Brooks, Tom Powers, Lyle Talbot.
Cinematography: Bert Glennon
Editor: Grant Whytock
Original Music: Arthur Lange, Emil Newman
Written by: Crane Wilbur
Produced by: Bryan Foy
Directed by John Brahm
Twilight Time, bless ’em, hands us another treat to go with their 3-D discs of Man in the Dark, Miss Sadie Thompson and Harlock Space Pirate 3-D — and this time it’s a fun bit of 1950s horror — with a hot pair of short subject extras.
There have been plenty of theories as to why horror films became scarce after WW2; it’s as if the U.S. film industry took a ten-year break from the supernatural, and partly...
3-D Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1954 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 72 min. / Street Date January 10, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Donald Randolph, Lenita Lane, Patrick O’Neal, Jay Novello, Corey Allen, Conrad Brooks, Tom Powers, Lyle Talbot.
Cinematography: Bert Glennon
Editor: Grant Whytock
Original Music: Arthur Lange, Emil Newman
Written by: Crane Wilbur
Produced by: Bryan Foy
Directed by John Brahm
Twilight Time, bless ’em, hands us another treat to go with their 3-D discs of Man in the Dark, Miss Sadie Thompson and Harlock Space Pirate 3-D — and this time it’s a fun bit of 1950s horror — with a hot pair of short subject extras.
There have been plenty of theories as to why horror films became scarce after WW2; it’s as if the U.S. film industry took a ten-year break from the supernatural, and partly...
- 1/13/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Roughly Speaking Written by Shara Ashley Zeiger Directed by Celine Rosenthal Presented by The Platform Group at Tada! Youth Theater, NYC October 29-November 20, 2016
A recent article on Gothamist discussing strident local opposition to converting a hotel into a homeless shelter -- opposition based, according to one quoted resident, on the idea that shelters destroy communities with drugs, violence, and prostitution -- pointed out that New York City reached a record high in September of this year of 60,000 adults and children sleeping in shelters (a number, that article notes, that doesn't count certain kinds of specialized shelters). In the program for the new play Roughly Speaking, the playwright and founder of The Platform Group, Shara Ashley Geiger, admits that she herself regarded the homeless with a mixture of uneasiness and fear after first moving to the City. Volunteering at the Xavier Mission Welcome Table and hearing the stories of the other...
A recent article on Gothamist discussing strident local opposition to converting a hotel into a homeless shelter -- opposition based, according to one quoted resident, on the idea that shelters destroy communities with drugs, violence, and prostitution -- pointed out that New York City reached a record high in September of this year of 60,000 adults and children sleeping in shelters (a number, that article notes, that doesn't count certain kinds of specialized shelters). In the program for the new play Roughly Speaking, the playwright and founder of The Platform Group, Shara Ashley Geiger, admits that she herself regarded the homeless with a mixture of uneasiness and fear after first moving to the City. Volunteering at the Xavier Mission Welcome Table and hearing the stories of the other...
- 11/14/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Hollywood director and screenwriter who won an Oscar for Dog Day Afternoon
In Sunset Boulevard, William Holden's character remarks: "Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it up as they go along." Given the difficulties in quantifying their contributions, screenwriters seldom get the recognition they deserve. Frank Pierson, who has died aged 87, wrote the screenplays for 10 films but his reputation rests on Cat Ballou (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), all of which gained him Academy Award nominations, with the last of them winning the Oscar for best original screenplay.
Yet most of the plaudits for Dog Day Afternoon went to Sidney Lumet, the director, and Al Pacino, the star. Pierson, whose work had as much to do with structure and character as dialogue, shaped the script from a Life magazine article about a bungled bank robbery that took place...
In Sunset Boulevard, William Holden's character remarks: "Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it up as they go along." Given the difficulties in quantifying their contributions, screenwriters seldom get the recognition they deserve. Frank Pierson, who has died aged 87, wrote the screenplays for 10 films but his reputation rests on Cat Ballou (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), all of which gained him Academy Award nominations, with the last of them winning the Oscar for best original screenplay.
Yet most of the plaudits for Dog Day Afternoon went to Sidney Lumet, the director, and Al Pacino, the star. Pierson, whose work had as much to do with structure and character as dialogue, shaped the script from a Life magazine article about a bungled bank robbery that took place...
- 7/26/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Frank Pierson, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter who worked in TV and movies for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 87. Pierson was the son of Louise Randall Pierson, whose memoir, Roughly Speaking, about her experience holding the family together was made into a 1945 movie starring Rosalind Russell. After attending Harvard, Frank got his start in advertising before breaking into TV as script editor on the hit Western Have Gun, Will Travel. He got his first big-screen credits on two movies directed by Elliot Silverstein: the comedic Western Cat Ballou (1965) and The Happening (1967). And ...
- 7/23/2012
- avclub.com
Jimmy Kimmel and Kerry Washington had the fortune of announcing this year’s nominees for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, which Kimmel will be hosting this September.
Roughly speaking, for those unacquainted, the Emmys are the equivalent of the Academy Awards for television – if you were to have one of these on your mantelpiece, ‘proud’ wouldn’t begin to describe it.
We all know that the past decade or so has seen a massive improvement in the quality of small-screen programming, and this year’s nominations highlight some of the best – Modern Family (particularly in the Best Supporting Comedy Actor category), Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Girls, and a slew of nominations for programmes from our own shores in Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and Luther.
The awards ceremony itself will be held on Sunday, 23rd September, and all the programmes and casts that will be heading there are as follows:
Best Comedy...
Roughly speaking, for those unacquainted, the Emmys are the equivalent of the Academy Awards for television – if you were to have one of these on your mantelpiece, ‘proud’ wouldn’t begin to describe it.
We all know that the past decade or so has seen a massive improvement in the quality of small-screen programming, and this year’s nominations highlight some of the best – Modern Family (particularly in the Best Supporting Comedy Actor category), Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Girls, and a slew of nominations for programmes from our own shores in Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and Luther.
The awards ceremony itself will be held on Sunday, 23rd September, and all the programmes and casts that will be heading there are as follows:
Best Comedy...
- 7/19/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Chicago – I have a confession — I grew up watching Abbott & Costello movies. I can remember watching them at a very early age and getting into the hysterical verbal jousting of two stellar movie comedians. The timing in some of the best bits from Bud Abbott & Lou Costello is simply amazing. And watching it again, in their breakthrough debut “Buck Privates,” a film in the Universal 100th Anniversary Collection series of Blu-rays and the first Abbott & Costello movie in HD, I was stunned at how much I still loved it. Abbott & Costello rock.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Throw your chest out, private.”
“I’m not through with it yet.”
If that silly exchange of verbal wordplay doesn’t make you smile, don’t bother with “Buck Privates.” Here, let’s try another one:
“You got three dollars?”
“Roughly speaking.” [Pause.] “When you smooth it out, I got a buck.”
Personally, I find that kind of silly,...
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Throw your chest out, private.”
“I’m not through with it yet.”
If that silly exchange of verbal wordplay doesn’t make you smile, don’t bother with “Buck Privates.” Here, let’s try another one:
“You got three dollars?”
“Roughly speaking.” [Pause.] “When you smooth it out, I got a buck.”
Personally, I find that kind of silly,...
- 4/23/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Shane O'Sullivan's new film revisits the story of Germany's infamous terror group, but brings in the Japanese Red Army to offer a fresh comparison and insight into the terrorist psyche
Some chapters are never closed. Take the Baader-Meinhof gang. Roughly speaking, the story of Germany's infamous left-wing terror group began with the shooting of a young activist by the Berlin police in 1967, and ended 10 years later with the deaths of its remaining leaders in Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. But interest in the events that took place between never dims, news stories continue to throw new light on them, and invitations to return to the era are legion – an unsettling "walking art" project called Eamon and Ulrike Compliant currently lets you assume the identity of the group's intellectual figurehead, Ulrike Meinhof, both at large and under interrogation.
And then there are the films. Even before Stammheim, German cinema was wrestling with...
Some chapters are never closed. Take the Baader-Meinhof gang. Roughly speaking, the story of Germany's infamous left-wing terror group began with the shooting of a young activist by the Berlin police in 1967, and ended 10 years later with the deaths of its remaining leaders in Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. But interest in the events that took place between never dims, news stories continue to throw new light on them, and invitations to return to the era are legion – an unsettling "walking art" project called Eamon and Ulrike Compliant currently lets you assume the identity of the group's intellectual figurehead, Ulrike Meinhof, both at large and under interrogation.
And then there are the films. Even before Stammheim, German cinema was wrestling with...
- 8/26/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
High time to round up the films at this year's Cannes Film Festival that never saw entries of their own and send them on their way. Today: Un Certain Regard.
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
- 5/31/2011
- MUBI
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