Welcome to another one of my
Buzz Gift Guides for all the entertainment lovers in your life. Yesterday I
tackled gifts for moms and today I've got some ideas for the original special fellow in your life: Dad.
I know a lot of dads (not just my own) who were sad to see HBO's mobster hit
The Sopranos end, so I was delighted to find
a whole collection of wines inspired by the show.
Over the weekend, I was hanging out with friends when David Bowie's "Young Americans" hit the jukebox and, of course, everyone started singing along. It suddenly struck me that that song would probably be awesome to hear live, and that I bet Bowie gives a fantastic live performance. I started thinking of other musicians I'd love to check out in concert — including those whom I'll never get the chance to see.
Yesterday's news of
Forest Whitaker's Louis Armstrong biopic immediately made me think of the last time I heard the song that will be the movie's title: "What a Wonderful World." My ears pricked up when I heard the song as covered by Joey Ramone in the recent Simon Pegg comedy
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. I wasn't thrilled with the movie as a whole, but I like a lot of the music in it — especially this track.
It's a wonderful world for Forest Whitaker.
According to Variety, Whitaker will
direct and star in a Louis Armstrong biopic titled What a Wonderful World. The story will have the help of a Paris-based production company, Legende, the company behind another musician biopic,
La Vie en Rose.
I love Louis Armstrong, but there's a whole lotta gluttony up in here! The lyrics may seem funky, but let's consider what we listen to nowadays: "Gimme, gimme more. Gimme more.
