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“I mean, I just coughed a feather up like five minutes ago,” said Aubrey Plaza.

That’s the price the actress had to pay for working on the FX’s series “Legion” in which her character rips open a pillow in a mad, choreographed dream sequence that all takes place in the subconscious of David Haller (Dan Stevens).

“I was so far gone and wrapped up in that character… that I just started knifing that pillow open, and the feathers just kind of exploded into my face and I inhaled a bunch of them…But I was coughing up feathers like an animal for a while, and it was kind of scary because I had a lot of them in my lung. It was very Looney Tunes.”

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Inhaling feathers may not...

Every episode of Cinemax's action-packed crime drama Quarry is directed by Greg Yaitanes, an Emmy winner who's previously worked on House, Lost and the network's own cult hit, Banshee. Yaitanes' expertise with shadowy characters and intense situations is put to good use in this story of a troubled Vietnam vet (played by Logan Marshall-Green), forced by circumstance to work with a cabal of hired killers.

The director also played a major role in recreating the world of Memphis in 1972 through music. It was his idea to have current bands perform...

Michael Stipe, who will stage a rare solo performance on March 31st and April 1st as part of the Music of David Bowie memorial concerts, made an even rarer late-night appearance Tuesday on The Tonight Show to preview what the former R.E.M. singer has planned for the tribute. Accompanied only by a pianist, Stipe delivered a sparse, gripping rendition of the singer's 1970 track "The Man Who Sold the World."

The March 31st event at Carnegie Hall was announced just hours before Bowie's death was revealed on January 10th.

Dave Grohl and Beck paid tribute to David Bowie at a pre-Grammy party on Sunday night (February 14).

Beck took lead vocals while Dave played the drums and was joined by his fellow surviving Nirvana members Pat Smear on the guitar and Krist Novoselic on bass guitar.

The supergroup delighted the star-studded audience at Clive Davis' Beverly Hills bash by performing The Man Who Sold The World to mark David's passing last month (Jan16).

They weren't the only musical stars to pay tribute to David, as Adam Lambert and Fun. singer Jack Antonoff closed the night's performances with their take on Let's Dance.

Other musical interludes on the evening came from Fetty Wap, Melissa Etheridge, Carly Simon, Chicago, and Tori Kelly.

Earth, Wind & Fire also performed, despite the passing of founding member Maurice White earlier this month (Feb16).

The celebrity guests could also be forgiven for being surprised when Barry Manilow...

Didn’t get enough “Heroes” in Moulin Rouge!? Ewan McGregor only sang a few bars of the David Bowie song for a medley in the Baz Luhrmann’s sparkling, stylish musical. But he belted out the whole song in a for-charity tribute to the late singer at Los Angeles venue the Roxy on Monday night. A video of his performance has hit the web, and it’s clear he’s got just as glorious a set of pipes as he did when Moulin Rouge! was made 15 years ago (and when he sang for the Bowie- and Iggy Pop-inspired Velvet Goldmine). Watch McGregor’s performance of “Heroes” below. If this results in you in a puddle on the floor, though, don’t say we didn’t warn you. Also at the tribute: Gary Oldman singing “The Man Who Sold the World” and Seal, who performed “Bring Me the Disco King...

During the Adam Driver-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live, the long-running sketch comedy series paid tribute to David Bowie by having former cast member Fred Armisen return to reminisce about a memorable 1979 episode of SNL where Bowie served as musical guest.

"When I was in high school and living in Long Island, I stayed up to see David Bowie play on Saturday Night Live. Watching him, for me, was a life-changing experience," Armisen told the audience. "David Bowie transformed whatever space he was in, whatever medium he was using,...

Fred Armisen cameoed on last night’s season-return of Saturday Night Live, offering a brief and deeply felt tribute to David Bowie, who died last Sunday of cancer at 69. “When I was in high school and living on Long Island,,” Armisen said, “I stayed up to see David Bowie play on Saturday Night Live.” It was December 15, 1979 and Bowie performed “The Man Who Sold The World” with an assist from German performance artist Klaus Nomi and New York’s own acclaimed drag artist…...

While we will remember David Bowie for his songs and the eye-catching way he chose to perform them, his legacy isn't limited to his own art. In addition to being a creator and a performer, Bowie, who died this week at age 69, was also someone who inspired many people, both famous and not. Today, we're celebrating Bowie’s legacy by looking at some of the artists who've covered his songs. 1. "Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield No, Hadfield didn't chart with this track, but that's because he's not a singer. He's an astronaut, and while aboard the International Space Station in...

While we will remember David Bowie for his songs and the eye-catching way he chose to perform them, his legacy isn't limited to his own art. In addition to being a creator and a performer, Bowie, who died this week at age 69, was also someone who inspired many people, both famous and not. Today, we're celebrating Bowie’s legacy by looking at some of the artists who've covered his songs. 1. "Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield No, Hadfield didn't chart with this track, but that's because he's not a singer. He's an astronaut, and while aboard the International Space Station in...

I was gutted by the news shared by playwright/producer Jeff Cohen as he and I walked our dogs in Riverside Park early this morning. The Thin White Duke was no more. I struggled to understand the implications of losing a music hero. Rushing home, resigned to reality, I watched his two new videos, the one above and the ablum's title track which I featured on this website last week, both from his 28th studio album, ★(Blackstar), released this past week on January 8th, 2016, the date of Bowie's 69th birthday. As I watched "Lazarus" again, it all made sense.

"Lazarus" is clearly Bowie's epitaph, his final prophetic performance on this mortal coil...

Look up here / I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama that can't be stolen Everybody knows me now...

The coins on his eyes, the pallor of his skin, his frail body wrapped in a fashionalbe shroud.

Death of the music, film and fashion icon confirmed by his son.

Musician, style icon and actor David Bowie has died aged 69, his son has confirmed.

The artist’s official Facebook account said: “January 10 2016 - David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.”

The announcement was immediately followed by a wave of claims that it was a hoax, with fans unable to believe it was true.

But his son, the film director Duncan Jones (who took his father’s original surname), tweeted: “Very sorry and sad to say it’s true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all.”

Very sorry and sad to say it s true. I ll be offline for a while. Love to all. pic.twitter...

22 years ago today, Nirvana delivered what would remain one of their most memorable performances. It was on December 16, 1993 that Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” show first aired. Taped in New York in November 1993, the acoustic show featured a set consisting mostly of covers, including of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” and of a few songs by Meat Puppets, who joined the Aberdeen, Wash.-born grunge band onstage at the “Unplugged” taping. Among their few hits played for the MTV show were “All Apologies” and “Come As You Are.” The live album from the event ended up being the band’s first album release following Kurt Cobain’s death. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and became the band’s most successful posthumous release. Other notable December 16 happenings in pop culture history: • 1962: “Lawrence of Arabia” made its U.S. debut. • 1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience...

Here’s a sampling of things you’ll experience at Lazarus, the illustrated concept album disguised as a musical now playing at New York Theatre Workshop: one alien, two serial killers, three women in blue wigs, four in kimonos, a top-notch band of seven, 18 songs by David Bowie, and a fridge full of gin. I think you can infer the rest from there.Not that you have to. So much imaginative horsepower has gone into the project that your contribution (and too often, it seems, your presence) is hardly wanted. There are, to begin with, those 18 Bowie songs, four of them new, the rest spanning the years from 1970 (“The Man Who Sold the World”) to 2013. They include some of his most famous (including “Changes,” “Life on Mars?” and “‘Heroes’,” and surely his least famous, too: the two-chord title song, scheduled to be released as part of his 25th studio...

A great opening can really set the tone for any piece of art. Whether it be a films first scene or an albums initial track, the opening will be the first thing you engage with in an artists work, and as such, it has the potential to be the most important part of the package. This is certainly true of the opening of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, director/designer/writer/producer Hideo Kojima’s final piece of his acclaimed Metal Gear saga.

The opening in question is a masterwork of excitement and emotion, and a fantastic example of how to engage the player right from the start. Beginning with Big Boss awakening from his coma, set brilliantly to David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”, Mgsv fades in on a blurry first person point of view as Snake comes to and is introduced to his...

Only a few days out from the release of his new “definitive collection” box set, David Bowie has released a suitably noirish new music video for “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)”. Directed by Tom Hingston and photographer Jimmy King, the video features footage of Bowie and the Maria Schneider Orchestra recording the track in a studio, superimposed atop shots of a dark, smoke-filled city. “Sue” and Bowie’s recently released demo “Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” will be released both as a digital single and a 10-inch vinyl, first in the U.K. on November 17th, then as a “Black Friday” in the U.S. on November 28th. The video was made to promote “Nothing Has Changed,” a new retrospective box that presents songs from throughout Bowie’s career in reverse chronological order. Watch the video below.

Here are the tracklists for the various digital download,...

Only a few days out from the release of his new "definitive collection" box set, David Bowie takes you out to an alley and laments your death. The Thin White Duke has released the new music video for "Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)" that's black and white and film noir all over. Serving more as a lyric video than a narrative, the clip is directed by Tom Hingston (who leads a British creative agency) and photographer Jimmy King. It subtly lets you focus on the small story Bowie's telling of Sue, and the humming contributions of the Maria Schneider Orchestra and Grammy Award-nominated saxophone honcho Donnie McCaslin. "Sue" and Bowie's recently released (and dizzyingly titled) demo "Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" were released in promoting "Nothing Has Changed," a new retrospective box set from Bowie and Columbia/Legacy. It comes in a variety of formats --...

The following article is provided by Rolling Stone.

By Daniel Kreps

No more guessing about what will appear on the 20th anniversary reissue of Nirvana's In Utero — Rolling Stone can now reveal what the mammoth, 70-song, three-disc deluxe edition of the band's final masterpiece will contain: Two versions of In Utero (the original LP remastered, plus the album newly remixed) as well as more than 40 tracks of unreleased demos, rehearsals, live performances, B-sides, and a recently unearthed, never-before-heard Nirvana instrumental. The reissue will arrive September 24th.

Link: Rolling Stone’s List of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Nirvana

The first disc will feature a remastered version of the original, Steve Albini-produced In Utero, complete with the two tracks ("Heart Shaped Box," "All Apologies") that Scott Litt mixed for In Utero's final version. The oft-bootlegged abrasive Albini versions of those two songs will finally legally appear on the Iu reissue,...

History has shown us that not every musical hit is unique to the artist. Take Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." When that catchy tune fell into the hands of the late Whitney Houston, the powerful ballad became an instant success, but many of the people caught humming the melody had no idea a blonde bombshell was the mastermind behind the hit.

Houston's rendition is just one a number of cover songs that eventually became more famous than the originals. We've compiled a list of some of these beloved gems below; let us know which ones surprised you in the comments.

1. "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead O'Connor (original by Prince/The Family)

O'Connor's breathy song was actually written by "Purple Rain" genius Prince for one of his side projects, The Family. But the Irish songstress was the one whose tears actually brought it to the general public.

2. "All...

Sneak Peek David Bowie’s new song and accompanying video, titled "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", produced by Tony Visconti, from Bowie's next album "The Next Day", available March 12, 2013.

Visconti previously collaborated with Bowie on some of his greatest albums including "Space Oddity" (1969), "The Man Who Sold The World" (1970), "Young Americans" (1975), "Heroes" (1977) and "Scary Monsters" (1980).

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek David Bowie's "The Stars Are Out Tonight"...

Remember that WikiLeaks film starring Benedict Cumberbatch that has been kicking around for some time now? Well, it finally has a title and the title that the studio has chosen to go with is The Man Who Sold The World. Rather fitting, isn’t it?

Set to start production in January with Cumberbatch in the lead role and Bill Condon at the helm, the film will be adapted from two books, Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and David Leigh and Luke Harding’s WIkiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy.

Though exact plot details haven’t been revealed yet, we do know that it will follow “Julian Assange and the setting up of WilkiLeaks, as the non-profit organization came to be in 2006 and has gone onto leak a significant number of anonymous, corporate and government documents from...

Fringe Episode 507

“Five-Twenty-Ten”

Written By: Graham Roland

Directed By: Eagle Egilsson

Original Airdate: 16 November 2012

In This Episode...

Tape #5 sends the Fringe team to the waterfront warehouse that Bell and Walter used to work out of. The building is still there, but it is a pile of rubble, leaving our team to figure out how to get into it. Walter believes the safest, easiest way is to rearrange the rubble’s molecules and go through it. That naturally would have been my first suggestion. While Astrid, Olivia, and Walter go find Nina Sharp, Peter splits off to go meet Anil, leaving Olivia very worried - and very suspicious. (We’ll get to Peter in a minute.)

Nina - now wheelchair-bound - is elated to see Olivia and Walter and will happily supply them with the tech they need. Nina is worried about Walter. She taught Etta how to implant the bits...

Have you ever been casually watching a movie and thought: This film could use a little more David Bowie? This collection of mock-up movie posters is for you! Gaze at Ziggy Stardust: - Rallying troops in "Saving Major Tom" - Laying down the law in Frank Miller's "Suffragette City" - Pouting in a leather jacket in "Rebel, Rebel Without a Cause" - Thieving around Africa in "Blood Diamond Dogs" - Goofing with Eddie Murphy in "Bowiefinger" - Pondering life in "The Man Who Sold the World, According to Garp."   Empire, the British film magazine, asked its readers to combine Bowie lyrics with movie...

Has it really been five years since I posted a "Bowie @ 60" entry at GreenCine Daily? Heavens. Here we are again, then. In Friday's Guardian, Alexis Petridis, looking back to that "scarcely-believable ten-year creative streak that begins with 1970's The Man Who Sold the World and ends with the 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)," wrote that "having achieved more in one phase of his career alone than anyone can hope to in a lifetime — so much that it's literally impossible to imagine what pop music would be like if he hadn't existed — he's entitled to take early redundancy from pop stardom. You can mourn the loss of more music if you want, but in a sense, his absence feels strangely right…. The artist who drew a decisive, iconoclastic dividing line between the 60s and the 70s in the lyrics of 'All the Young Dudes' ('my brother's at home with his Beatles and his Stones…...

'Life on Mars?' has been named David Bowie's greatest-ever song in a poll of Digital Spy readers. In a survey to mark the iconic singer-songwriter's 65th birthday, you decided that the track from 1971's Hunky Dory album was Bowie's best. The song beat off competition from a strong shortlist, and you can watch the videos for the full top ten below. 10. Magic Dance - 2.5%

The mid-1980s was Bowie's lowest point artistically, but his half of the Labyrinth soundtrack showed some of his finest work of the decade, and none more brilliant than the Beatles-esque melody of 'Magic Dance'. 9. The Man Who Sold The World - 3.2%

The title track of Bowie's underrated hard rock third album, this song was given a new burst of life when covered by Nirvana for their Unplugged set in 1994. Bowie revived it in an (more)...

Omar Kholeif, curator of the Liverpool Arabic film festival, picks the film-makers most likely to put Arab cinema on the map

As the Arab world reimagines its boundaries, it seems a good moment to reflect on how the medium of cinema has been reshaped by a new generation of film-makers. The last few years have seen a new guard carve out a niche for themselves, breaking on to the international film festival circuit with their divergent portraits of Arabic daily life.

Ahmad Abdalla

Thirty-two-year-old Abdalla makes vital films that capture the youthful spirit of Egypt's major cities. Reawakening a realism that has been missing in Egyptian cinema since the late 1960s, Abdalla merges a verite camera style with astutely edited montages of activism on the streets. His acclaimed second feature, Microphone (2010), portrays the dissident underground arts movement in Alexandria, capturing a world in which Arabic hip-hop meets conceptual Egyptian video art.

Studio Ghibli, London

If you've never stepped into the universes of Hayao Miyazaki and co, it's time you discovered what you're missing. These aren't just some of the best animated children's movies ever made; they'e some of the best movies full stop. The vibrant fantasy worlds, airborne adventures and noble junior heroes of Studio Ghibli's movies fascinate kids, but they're richer, more challenging and more psychedelically epic than most of what passes for grown-up fantasy. Avatar looks like Mr Men compared to, say, Princess Mononoke – which deals with similar themes with considerably more nuance. Having first championed them 10 years ago, the Barbican brings back Ghibli classics, from Laputa: Castle In The Sky and My Neighbour Totoro (the best one for young viewers), right up to previews of their latest, Arrietty, a version of The Borrowers.

Barbican Screen EC2, Wed to 31 Jul

Liverpool Arabic Fim Festival

Partly as a result of the Arab Spring,...

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So the end of the world doesn’t seem like it’s happening.

But if it does happen at some point today, say after lunch or something, Speakeasy’s got you covered. Here’s a punchy Apocalypse and Rapture-themed playlist as we contemplate the end of the world (upside: not paying rent in June) and debate whether we need to invest in new leather pants for the Mad Max-y post-fallout world.

Caveat: No, Rem’s “It’s the...

Today marks a bittersweet day in rock history, as on this day in 1994, the world was able to pick up MTV Unplugged in New York, the first Nirvana album released after the death of frontman Kurt Cobain. Recorded nearly a year earlier at Sony Studios in New York City, the album collected all of the songs that aired on the original episode of "Unplugged" that aired in December 1993 and added two new tracks in "Something in the Way" and "Oh Me" (a third Meat Puppets cover). The album debuted on top of the Billboard album chart and went on to sell five million copies (and also turned "About a Girl" — a song from Nirvana's first LP Bleach — into a surprise MTV and radio hit).

Despite his anti-corporate stance (he famously wore a T-shirt that said "Corporate Magazines Still Suck" on the cover of Rolling Stone, though that never stopped...

  Berlin -- Brit director Mat Whitecross, who shook up the Berlin film festival with his last two documentaries, "The Shock Doctrine" (2009) and "Road to Guantanamo" (2006) is returning this year with "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," a biopic of British punk icon Ian Dury starring Andy Serkis.

"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" is certain to be one of the highlights of this year's Panorama lineup, which was announced Friday.

Other returning veterans include French filmmakers Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel, whose new drama "Family Tree" will have its world premiere in Berlin; Hong Kong helmer Skud, coming to town with "Amphetamine" and Austrian director Peter Kern, whose "Initiation" looks at the relationship between an octogenarian and a 16-year-old boy.

Art and gay cinema have always had pride of place at the Panorama, and are well represented in the 2010 lineup. Panorama's non-fiction section, the Dokumente, includes "Waste Land," Lucy Walker's portrait of artist...