TV Review: ‘Sun Records’ on CMT
"Sun Records" is based, loosely, on the musical "Million Dollar Quartet," which tells the story of the real-life, mostly impromptu jam session between Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and…
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CMT’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ Has New Name: ‘Sun Records’
CMT has retitled its coming eight-part limited series about the early days of rock and roll. “Million Dollar Quartet,” a drama about the first steps taken by musicians like Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis…
How Elvis Sparked the Rock ‘n’ Roll Era on July 5, 1954
Have you heard the news? The explosion of rock 'n' roll as a cultural force was ignited 60 years ago this week, on a hot day in Memphis when a truck driver named Elvis Presley was called to a…
‘Breaking Bad’: 7 Lessons Showbiz Can Learn From the Gamechanging Series
With “Breaking Bad’s” final episode set to air Sunday, consumers and the industry alike are busily discussing the show’s impact on television. The AMC drama has overcome numerous hurdles during its…
AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad’ Returns to Record 5.9 Million Viewers
Perhaps no series has benefited from so-called off-season “binge viewing” more than AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” which hit a series ratings high in its return Sunday. The much-anticipated final-season…
Marilyn King, Last of the King Sisters, Dies at 82
Marilyn King, songstress, actress and last surviving member of Grammy-nominated jazz group the King Sisters, died Wednesday in Laguna Niguel, Calif., surrounded by her family after fighting cancer…
‘Cowboy’ Jack Clement Dead at 82
"Cowboy" Jack Clement, the producer, engineer, songwriter and singer whose career with Sun Records and RCA saw him man the mixing boards for a plethora of canonical rock and roll and country…
‘Hunger Games’ Fever Pushing Lionsgate Stock To Records
Wall Street’s love affair with Lionsgate, fueled by strong “Hunger Games” prospects and a brightening TV outlook, has continued with back-to-back record highs. Stock rose 42 cents to $33.70 on Friday…
Album Review: Robin Thicke, “Blurred Lines”
If nothing else, 2013 may well go down as the year the "event album" reached its apotheosis, with four-quadrant assaults of corporate synergies, saturation marketing, social media info-bombing and…
Mysterious Billionaires and Back-Door Deals: Inside the Sale of Digital Domain
The acquisition of Digital Domain 3.0 Saturday by a Hong Kong-based scrap-trading company is in reality just the public face of a complex, long-gestating deal financed by a mysterious Chinese…
Rupert Murdoch ‘Regrets’ Taped Comments Made to Sun Journalists
LONDON — Rupert Murdoch has told two U.K. lawmakers that he regrets comments that appeared to condone illegal payments made by journalists to public officials in exchange for information. In a letter…
