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Today in Music History - April 9 The Canadian Press 1 hour ago Today in Music History for April 9:   In 1932, rock 'n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins was born in Jackson, Tenn. He wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," which went to No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart and No. 1 on the country chart in 1956. Perkins nearly died in a car accident in March of '56, and never had a similar hit. Perkins died in Nashville on Jan. 19, 1998, following three strokes. In 1939, about 75,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to hear black contralto Marian Anderson perform after she was denied use of ...

Bill Murray Says He Was Tricked Into Making Ghostbusters II 1984’s  Ghostbusters was one of the biggest hits of the 80s and its instant success meant a sequel was inevitable. Yet it took almost five years for Ghostbusters II to hit screens, with the end result generally being considered a much lesser movie than its predecessor. Part of the reason for the delay was simply that it was hard to get the team back together, with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Ackroyd and Ernie Hudson all pursuing solo careers in the interim. Murray was an especially tough nut to crack. Peter Venkman was the m...

[SEE UPDATE BELOW] Harrison is a good friend of the Triggered Podcast and his tweet pretty much sums what’s happening on Wall Street: “Populism is contagious.” Yes, a few smart randos on a Reddit thread, ‘wallstreetbets,’ decided to exercise their right to free speech and only boost the stock price of GameStop through the roof. It cost hedge fund firms, who were trying to keep the price low, tons of money—billions of dollars were just roasted. If you need a visual comparison, think the Joker lighting that mountain of money on fire in The Dark Knight. Some hedge funds got wiped out...

100 Worst Comedies of All Time By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News On 1/16/21 at 8:00 AM EST The notion that terrible films are often funny for being so inept is certainly applicable in the sci-fi or horror genres. But how can the worst comedies be funny in their failure to be funny? Therein lies the paradox and the reason why bad comedies are usually just plain bad. Nevertheless, it's been said that anything worth doing is worth doing badly—comedy is certainly no exception. With this in mind, Stacker compiled IMDb and Metacritic data on all comedy movies with more than 2,500 votes on IMDb and...

The thing about motion pictures is that they move. Perhaps that’s a bit obvious, but sometimes the simple things are worth noting. Film excels at capturing objects and people in motion, and we react very strongly to the kinetic nature of the medium. That’s why we get off on both action movies and musicals – the distance between, say, Bruce Lee kicking six guys into their next incarnations and Fred & Ginger cutting a rug for our entertainment is actually pretty small. And then there are car chases, which up the stakes by the simple act of motorising the motion. Not only are we excited by...