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Thu Sep 20 2001 at 0:47:31 Being There is the second album by the largely alt-country band Wilco. It was released in 1996 on Reprise Records. The album consists of two discs, the first totaling thirty six minutes and twenty two seconds in length, and the second totaling forty minutes and forty four seconds in length, for a total album length of seventy seven minutes and six seconds. Wilco grew from the ashes of Uncle Tupelo, the band that more or less kick-started the alt-country movement. In fact, their influence was such that the title of Uncle Tupelo's debut album, No Depression, is of...

The unsung hero of American cinema.

“ Travels on a cloud/He’s one of the good time people now/I’m a face in the crowd/All dressed up and laughing loud/I can talk to him, and I can love him.” This was my introduction hearing the original Nirvana’s ‘Rainbow Chaser’ (no, not Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana) on an UNCUT compilation back in the summer of 2003 entitled, Acid Daze. It was like this crossover between symphonic pop, baroque beauty, and psychedelic phasing that was like a breath of fresh air. They were often under the radar during the late ‘60s at the height of the Swinging London scenery during that time frame...

Lynn Stalmaster, ‘master caster’ who gave actors including John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman their breakthrough roles – obituary He got Ned Beatty his film debut in Deliverance and proposed Christopher Reeve for Superman 15 February 2021 • 3:34pm Stalmaster: ‘If you’ve got Lynn Stalmaster to cast your movie, you have a damn good chance of having a good movie,’ said the director John Frankenheimer Credit: Tony Korody/Sygma via Getty Lynn Stalmaster, who has died aged 93, largely devised the profession of casting director with which he was to become synonymous in Hollywood; he help...

Lynn Stalmaster was credited to jump-start the careers of several actors including Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Reeve, John Travolta and Richard Dreyfuss.