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Rod McKuen

Nascimento : 1933-04-29, Oakland, California, USA

Morte : 2015-01-29

História

From Wikipedia Rodney Marvin "Rod" McKuen (April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. McKuen's translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of love, the natural world and spirituality. McKuen's songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry were sold as well, according to the Associated Press.

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Filmes

The Boneyard Collection

Rod McKuen (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first one, BOOGIE WITH THE UNDEAD, has an all girl rock band booked to play a gig in a town overrun by flesh-eating zombies. In the second one, THE DEVIL'S DUE AT MIDNIGHT, a coven of beautiful witches conjure up Brad Dourif as The Devil, and endures the inept attacks of witch killer Ken Foree. In the first long segment, HER MORBID DESIRES, an actress gets the lead role in a vampire movie, only to discover that starlets are being murdered on the set. The other long segment, CRY OF THE MUMMY, has the reincarnated mummy, formerly the last Pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty, looking to sue the movie studios because he can't get work as a mummy. His new lawyer offers to represent him as an agent, but the mummy will only work in film if he can direct.

Night of 100 Stars II

Self

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.

Rod McKuen's Christmas in New England

Rod McKuen's Christmas show from 1978 with special guest Dusty Springfield.

Emily

Original Music Composer

Evocative of the Roaring Twenties, "Emily" (Aka "The Awakening of Emily") is an erotic coming-of-age film featuring meticulous period detail and music. The sharp class distinctions of British society are blurred by the universal nature of sexual desire.

The Borrowers

Music

An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.

John Escandaloso

Original Music Composer

John é um velho rancheiro que, em dias passados, atuava como pistoleiro. Homens da lei querem desapropriar suas terras para construir uma represa, mas John se mantém resistente.

Say Goodbye

Narrator

Say Goodbye is a 1971 American documentary film about the relationship between humans and nature, directed by David H. Vowell. The film depicts the plight of various animal species at the hands of man and his influence. Some segments include the clubbing of seals on the Pribilof Islands, the effect of DDT on brown pelican populations in Texas, and the plight of severely endangered animals. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

A Primavera de uma Solteirona

Original Music Composer

Edinburgh, 1932. Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) é uma professora em uma escola para meninas, que inspira suas estudantes com suas idéias sobre arte, música e política, sendo que a última é baseada em noções românticas, que a levam a expressar sua admiração pelo fascismo na Itália.

Joanna

Music

When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.

Wild Heritage

Dirk Breslin

Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.

Summer Love

Ox Bentley

A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.

Rock, Pretty Baby

Ox Bentley

A high school rock group enters a band contest.