Jonny Greenwood’s film scores incite the “Radiohead effect” even as he operates as a composer without the rest of his home band. (Juliette Wimpfeimer | Daily Trojan)
One of the best artistic decisions director Catherine Hardwicke made for “Twilight,” and yes, it’s hard to narrow it down to just one, was using Radiohead’s “15 Step” to score part of the ending credits.
The five-time Mercury Prize-nominated, 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted, six-time Grammy Award-winning English experimental rock band needs no introduction. Their musical influence has pushed the industry into the computer age, revived art-pop and has even inspired an emotion the “Radiohead effect” was coined to describe the exact moment when one of the band’s songs captures your attention and leaves you at the mercy of its lyricism and sonic fantasies.
This year marks 60 years since Holly Golightly stepped on to Fifth Avenue in Breakfast at Tiffany s (1961) in her iconic LBD with its pearl back. It s a two-hour treat and I always pull my chair closer to the screen for a better view of Hubert de Givenchy s costumes, especially those awesome funnel-neck coats.
I don t even notice Grace Kelly s voice anymore when watching High Society (1956). All I see are those achingly gorgeous costumes, designed by MGM s Helen Rose, who went on to design Kelly s wedding dress. Favourite fashion moments are when Kelly slips out of a Grecian robe to reveal a white halterneck bathing suit and, later, when she dances with Frank Sinatra in swirling layers of embellished grey and pink chiffon, a dress which now lives in the Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge, Co Kildare.
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Loren was born Sofia Scicolone in a Roman charity ward in 1934, an illegitimate child raised by her mother and grandmother in Pozzuoli, a small town near Naples. She came of age during World War II, and, reflecting on periods of starvation, bombing and hopelessness, acknowledges, We suffered a lot. But through it all, she insists, she harbored dreams of becoming an actress and enjoying a better life: As a matter of fact, even with bombs and everything in Pozzuoli, every time there was an American film, I was there.
Loren s mother, who had once won a
Greta Garbo look-alike contest that offered her a chance to go to America, but declined to take it, invested her own unfulfilled ambitions in her daughter, taking her, when she was 14 and blossoming from a skinny child into a voluptuous young woman, to Rome to try her luck at acting and beauty contests. They both landed roles as extras in productions like 1951 s