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Posted: Wed., Sep. 9, 2009, 8:00pm PT

Barry Manilow's music to get cinematic

Film being developed around singer's catalog

By MICHAEL FLEMING

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Barry Manilow, matinee idol?

Single Cell partners Sandy Stern and Michael Stipe and Playtone partners Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks have joined forces to develop a romantic comedy that will exploit the song catalogue of singer/songwriter Barry Manilow. Manilow's manager, Garry Kief, will also produce.

Deal follows Sony's recent deal to make a theatrical release of rehearsal footage from Michael Jackson's final concert, and Disney's negotiations to make a Robert Zemeckis-directed "Yellow Submarine" remake in performance capture 3-D that will use classic Beatles songs.

Manilow has pledged his support, and songs, to the project. The producers will first take the project to Universal, where Playtone has its first-look deal.

Though Playtone produced the U blockbuster "Mamma Mia!," the idea for the film is closer in tone to "Love Actually." Characters will not follow a plot and burst into song, as Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and others did with Abba tunes in "Mamma Mia!"

The project was hatched by Stern, who hooked Manilow with the idea of making a character-driven romantic comedy with intersecting storylines involving Manilow fans who are all arriving in Las Vegas on a weekend where Manilow will headline at the Mandalay Bay. His music will be heard throughout the movie. Manilow will also perform a song or two in the film.

Manilow, who was repped in the deal by WME, will be a collaborator in shaping the project once a writer is hired. This is the first time Manilow has given access to his catalogue for a film.

Troy Queen and Mark Grove will also be involved as producers.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008342.html?categoryid=10&cs=1&nid=2248?ref=sharethis

OMG I hope this actually happens!!! If it's anything like Across the Universe it's going to be friggin amazing!!!!!!!!

Looking back and questions.....

So I'm sitting here flipping through channels on my TV and scrolling through some of the various blogs about Barry on Blogger and I came upon an article about Johnny Mercer. The article talked about the legend's career and there was a brief mention of Mr. Manilow and how he received a number of Johnny's lyrics after his passing. But then the article said something about Barry smoking pot backstage in Vegas. I was like wait a minute, FALSE!! Going back to the article to get the quote I just realized that the title of the article is "Barry Manilow goes to pot as Johnny Mercer turns 100 and gets a Capitol celebration."

Wow low blow there!! The picture they have is of Barry on stage during the 60's segment with the fake (hopefully) joint. So here is what the article says:

"During the last year of his life, Mercer became a Fanilow, partly because Barry Manilow’s first hit record was a ditty entitled "Mandy," which was also the nickname of Mercer’s daughter Amanda. After Mercer’s death, his widow give Manilow unfinished lyrics her hubby had written, asking him to develop them into complete songs. Among those works was a piece titled “When October Goes,” a bittersweet remembrance of lost love. Manilow applied his own melody to the lyric and the 1984 single became a Top 10 hit. Luckily it didn't go to pot even if Barry was smokin' the weed backstage in Vegas. Tell us it's not true, Barry! Tell us only your career is smokin'! Tell us that doing such a stupid thing to promote your CD is sad, sad, sad."

As I look back on Barry's bit I realize how ridiculous it is. But this is just an opinion. To start, I am very, very, VERY, against the use of drugs and alcohol; I believe people who do drugs are idiots.
So getting that out of the way, I kind of agree with the guy/girl that wrote the article. A sixty something year old guy pretending to smoke weed on stage..... kind of sad. Stooping to an illegal level to promote an album is pretty bad.* Though I do not agree with the whole joke on stage I have to say the person writing the article could have checked his facts!! He could have gotten Barry in a shit-load of trouble!!! (Excuse my fowl language) It's pretty low to be calling Barry out for a stupid joke when the article has nothing to do with him and the author didn't even check his facts!! Ugh makes me angry.

This article was written a couple days ago, does Barry still do this bit even?

I believe I'm rambling and not making much sense, I'm watching Ace of Cakes on Food Network so my attention is divided.



The picture. Oye.....


*So I was saying about the illegal level to promote an album, I saw the the bit back in 2006 before the sixties album came out and it was pretty damn funny, even if I'm anti-drug.



Now, to the question I mentioned in the title of this post. Does anybody know anything about Barry's musical? Harmony? Is that ever going to happen does anyone know?

Also, does anyone know when the new "rock" influenced album is coming out?

I'm assuming these questions won't be answered because no one reads my blog anyway but I guess it doesn't hurt to try huh?


Man, does the author of that Johnny Mercer article really think Barry Manilow is a pot head? Like come on, look at the guy!



Link to the article:
Click here for the article!!

Love the comment at the end!!


Wednesday, July 08, 2009

BARRY MANILOW TO PERFORM FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL on October 24, 2009

Tickets go on sale on Monday, July 13, 2009

(Los Angeles, CA - July 7, 2009) Barry Manilow will perform for the very first time at a special concert on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA.

Tickets go on sale on Monday, July 13, 2009 at 10 a.m. at manilow.com or at Ticketmaster.com, or the Hollywood Bowl box office 1-800-745-3000. For more information contact billsilvapresents.com or Hollywoodbowl.com.

Manilow ranks as the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time with more than 75 million records sold worldwide. His career includes 25 consecutive Top 40 hits such as Even Now, This One’s for You, Weekend in New England, I Write the Songs, Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again and Copacabana (At the Copa). In 1978, five of Manilow’s albums were on the charts simultaneously — a record rivaled only by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis. The multi-award-winning Manilow has released 62 albums and he was most recently distinguished as the only artist to chart three Top 5 debuts in a span of two years in 2006 and 2007.

The pop icon has written hundreds of songs and performed around the globe thrilling millions of fans, winning a Grammy, two Emmys, several Tony Awards and an Oscar nomination along the way. Billboard Magazine recently stated: "Among the few things one can count on in life: the taste of McDonald's cheeseburgers, ‘I Love Lucy’ reruns are still funny—and Barry Manilow never wearing out his welcome at the top of the charts."

IT'S SO TRUE!!!

that Manilow Hotline for the Manilow.tv thing was funny

THE VAULT!!

I can't wait till it starts, i like watching things

Chirpings about a Manilow Twitter

So i'm addicted to Twitter, I have been since i signed up in January. I love it i constantly update, I'm followed almost 200 people and have 50ish followers. I have numerous celebritie's tweets (twitter posts) being sent to my cell phone. My name is Kristen and I am a Twitter addict.
Recently I heard about Barry possibly being on Twitter. You have no idea how thrilled i was. So i followed a bunch of the Barrys on there (SMSSG, BarryManilow, and the UltimateManilow one)
I'm logged on now and I believe the BarryManilow account has been taken down/ suspended and the Ultimate Manilow has deffinently been taken down. Which leads me to believe that the BarryManilow account was a fake and the Ultimate manilow was either a fake or a short lived Manilow Administration experiment. The SMSSG account to me is an obvious fake, the tweeter (a person who posts tweets) is very concieted and kind of odd. The poster talks about stuff then refers to Marc like he's talking directly to Marc. If there was a real Barry Twitter account I'm sure the Hotline would be talking it up like mad or we would all know about it already through the Manilow Grapevine.
Frankly, I don't think Barry would go for Twitter. Too much information being spread to easy of a chance to accidently spread around information to fans that he wanted to keep private. What I've seen from Barry and what I've interpreted from it is that he's a private dude and he doesn't want people all up in his business.
But I don't doubt that Barry's organization will eventually get a Manilow Twitter up and running. They got on board with Myspace pretty late in the game and Facebook as well. So I think if the Manilow people see that there is enough interest in the world for Twitter or notices talks from fans there will eventually be a Company run Barry Manilow Twitter account. If and when there is a Manilow twitter account it'll be a lot like the Manilow website and the Myspace blog. Barely any updates till there is something to promote.

Tottaly lost track of the time, I have to go to sleep! Glad I finally got back on here, I've been away for a long time. I've had a lot of school stuff to do. Well Good Night!

More Musical Donations!

Manilow donates violins to Snohomish Co. schools
03:09 PM PDT on Sunday, April 12, 2009
By KING5.com Staff

AP
Barry Manilow
EVERETT, Wash. - Beginning next fall, two Snohomish County elementary schools will have a stringed instrument program, thanks to singer/songwriter Barry Manilow.
Manilow is donating 45 Yamaha violins to the school district through his program, the Manilow Music Project.
The Everett Symphony says the "Prelude Strings" program will be open to fourth and fifth graders at Hawthorne Elementary in Everett and Tulalip Elementary in Marysville.
The Tulalip Elementary program will run at noon, and the Hawthorne Elementary program will be an after-school program.
Ron Friesen, a 32-year veteran music teacher and band director, will donate his time to teach and administer the program.
Hawthorne and Tulalip elementary schools will share information with students and parents this spring.
“Every student who wants to participate will be able to,” said Friesen. “If a student says ‘I want to play,’ we’ll make sure they get to play.”

http://www.king5.com/education/stories/NW_041209WAB-manilow-donates-violins-SW.cb5a060f.html

Hello

I'm so bad at updating these things, I apologize! I've had computer issues lately as well as a monster sized history project that I should be working on right now. Good point, Barry is included in this history project, so it's ok!

Barry has been interviewed a few times since we last spoke.
http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_8438

Ok so the computer is being a jackass, so you can get all the latest Manilow updates from here: http://shadowsofmanilow.blogspot.com/ Because Moonstone is really good at keeping her blog up to date!!

On there is also some pictures of Barry out-and-about someplace, probably California somewhere. Very nice photos!

I have a project to get back to, please exuse my crappy posting.

-Kristen

Random Barry Ramblings...

Today I was thinking about Barry (nothing new) and I was wondering when the last time he actually did chores was. Then I decided the last time was approximately 1974 a few days after "Mandy" hit the radio. But then I also started thinking, "There must be SOMETHING Barry does, he can't be that much of a loaf."

So here is a list of chores Barry might do:

1.) Clean his out computer files. Because if he didn't do it some moron at Geek Squad (not that there's anything wrong with working at Geek Squad but the time I went for help the guy was a jerk, but more on that later) tries to clean out Mr. Manilow's PC and whoosh there goes 4 years worth of 3 minute master-peices.

2.) Cleaning his piano and sound mixing stuff. Why? Because someone may tamper with his settings and stuff.

3.) Walking his dogs. This is a no brainer, I heard he likes to do this. (hehe I cheated) Though this does NOT include cleaning up dog poop. He's Barry Manilow, he's classy, he doesn't touch dog poo.

4.) Organize his music collection.

5.) Clean his desk. Because if he's anything like me, he needs to know where all his stuff is.

6.) Fetch the newspaper in the morning. Because who want someone rifiling through the paper before you get to read it? I get yelled at when I do that to my mom! There is an exception to this chore: Unless Barry has one of the dogs fetch the paper and in that case, kudos Mr. M, that's awesome.

7.) Changing his calender. I know not a huge deal but I just looked at my wall and that's what I saw, my calender.



Does anyone else have any chores he might do?
If so leave a comment, Manilow fans are hilarious, I'd love to see what you guys & girls come up with!

Hi again!

Holy Crap! More than one posting in a decade, the world is coming to an end. Please refrain from screaming--you may wake the children. Golf Claps please.

I was just exploring my settings here on Blogger and I found out that YOU, my loyal readers (all three of you) can recieve e-mails that inform you of Blog Updates. I think thats pretty darn spiffy.
If you want to be on the e-mail list thing, leave this post a comment and I'll put your name on the list!!


Talk to you soon,
~Kristen

"No more harmony for you and meeeeeeeee...."

WOAH!

Well well well here we are again, I should be writing a current event for my history class but I'm bored of it so I'm here! haha I really should be getting on the ball posting stuff on this wonderful little blog, but I forget about it and I'm lazy and when I do muster up the energy to write, nothing interesting is going on in the Manilow World. Hold on gotta find a new cd............ *minutes later* OKAY! I'm back sorry about that, I'm in a Manilow mood, hence why I'm here!

So what has Mr. B been up to? A lot actually!
-Let's see off the top of my head he just won a commercial award the CLIO! YAY
-He was nominated for a Grammy! Unfortunately, he lost to that old singer's daughter, i forgot her name, I'll eventually think of it.
-He just received the Steve Chase award for doing a lot of wonderful things for other people.
-He also was inducted into the Fraiers club! Unlucky for us, he didn't get roasted!! I was hoping he would, funny stuff there folks!!
-Barry annouced there will be ORGINAL material!!! The world stood still when he said that! Holy Smokes real genuine Manilow music and even better it's going to be like his EARLY rock oriented stuff. Which makes Kristen incredibly happy!

Uh.... lets see there's probalby other stuff too. But I'm tired and my legs hurt from running today so I kind of want to chill so I'm not digging through the internet to stalk Barry. I'm to lazy, plus I'm sure you guys already know what he's been up to!


So i got my Varsity Jacket today! And of course my mind drifted to Barry playing sports. We all know he's not an athlete (though I have heard he was pretty good at basketball in High School)but I was thinking how cool Barry would look in a nice varsity jacket. Then i was thinking how awesome it would be if he went to my high school, which gave me an image of Barry in jeans and a lovely black, white and red varsity jacket. And with my amazing Paint editing skills *wink* I bring you Barry Manilow the Varsity Letterman Athlete......

So he doesn't have much a neck but pretty Snazzy huh? I dig it. haha

So I'm rambling now and I have a current event to write. Talk to you soon.

~Kristen


The singer I forgot about was Natelie Cole


"I got so much honey the bee's envy me..."