A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist from western Pennsylvania, Bill plays keyboards, guitar, violin, woodwinds. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. His early influences include the progressive rock of the 1970's, with groups like Genesis, Kansas and Rush. He currently is a member of the Neal Morse Band (Transatlantic, Flying Colors, ex-Spocks Beard), which features Mike Portnoy on drums, getting the gig through open auditions on You-tube. Bill is also a former member of, and producer for ApologetiX ("That Christian Parody Band") -- It's kind of like Weird Al Yankovic meets Billy Graham. (2004-2009) He is also a founding member of progressive rock band "Ten point Ten" -- released four albums, including the critically acclaimed "12 25" Christmas album. (1996-2003)
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.