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This kaleidoscopic compilation of soundtracks by Bernard Herrmann scored for film, television and radio presents a feature-length overview of this incredibly unique composer's wide-ranging and distinctive style. Working with directors such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, during a career that spanned over forty years, Herrmann created scores of such innovative and emotional magnitude that notions of sound and music in cinema have never been the same. The breadth and scope of Herrmann's ingenious composing, arranging and orchestrating talent is on full display here, from the use of the theremin in The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), to the all-string "black & white" sound for Psycho (1960), and the whistled main title of The Twisted Nerve (1968). Despite a well-charted, stormy history of personal and professional battles, Herrmann could work effortlessly in many musical idioms, seemingly without pause, whether it be within the Romanticism of Jane Eyre (1943) and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...

Following the alleged terrorist attack at the April 15 Boston Marathon, both President Barack Obama and Senator Roger Wicker received poison tainted letters. How scary.

The terrifying explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15 are being considered a suspected act of terrorism, and following the shocking event, President Barack Obama and Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi received identical threatening letters that were laced with ricin poison. The letters were signed “Kc,” and said that “people will die” if the author was not heard. Are the letters related to the marathon?

President Obama Sent Ricin Letter

The two letters were intercepted on April 16, and neither reached the Hill or The White House. The letter that was sent to the president has been confirmed of being tainted with ricin, reports Fox News.

“To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance,” was the message written,...