International music and sound design company The Elements Music has brought Dan Lentaigne on board as head of new business, U.K. She will work closely with London partner/creative director Andy Carroll to develop new business and build on the company’s roster of composers and artists worldwide, Lentaigne began her career in music as a singer/songwriter, releasing her first single with Skint Records at age 17. She went on to get an intensive education in music production working at Metropolis Recording Studios in London where she worked with many notable U.K. producers and artists, including Ian Brown. She also did session work on commercial projects, which eventually led her back into advertising. Lentaigne’s joining The Elements Music is a reunion for her and Carroll. In 2006 she sang a cover of Peggy Lee’s “Fever” and became the voice of the FIFA World Cup for MasterCard. The track was co-produced by Carroll who then brought Lentaigne on to run the advertising side of his music production company at the time, Soundfly. After several productive years there, she took some time out to have a family, and now is back together with Carroll, who joined The Elements Music in 2016 to launch its U.K. branch…..
Angelina Jolie Had To “Breathe Again” For The Role Of Maria Callas
Angelina Jolie never expected to hit all the notes. But finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn't even know were in her.
"All of us, we really don't realize where things land in our body over a lifetime of different experiences and where we hold it to protect ourselves," Jolie said in a recent interview. "We hold it in our stomachs. We hold it in our chest. We breathe from a different place when we're nervous or we're sad.
"The first few weeks were the hardest because my body had to open and I had to breathe again," she adds. "And that was a discovery of how much I wasn't."
In Pablo LarraÃn's "Maria," which Netflix released in theaters Wednesday before it begins streaming on Dec. 11, Jolie gives, if not the performance of her career, then certainly of her last decade. Beginning with 2010's "In the Land of Blood and Honey," Jolie has spent recent years directing films while prioritizing raising her six children.
"So my choices for quite a few years were whatever was smart financially and short. I worked very little the last eight years," says Jolie. "And I was kind of drained. I couldn't for a while."
But her youngest kids are now 16. And for the first time in years, Jolie is back in the spotlight, in full movie-star mode. Her commanding performance in "Maria" seems assured of bringing Jolie her third Oscar nomination. (She won supporting actress in 2000 for "Girl, Interrupted.") For an actress whose filmography might lack a signature movie, "Maria" may be Jolie's defining role.
Jolie's oldest children, Maddox and Pax, worked on the set of the film. There, they saw a version of their mother they hadn't seen before.
"They had certainly seen me sad in my life. But I... Read More