A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
June 14, 1943
Music:
1986 The Gift Of Amazing Grace
1987 Just A Regular Kid: An AIDS Story
1992 Stompin' at the Savoy
1992 You Must Remember This
1994 Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
Music Director:
1972 Don't Play Us Cheap
1986 The Gift Of Amazing Grace
1987 Just A Regular Kid: An AIDS Story
1992 Stompin' at the Savoy
1992 You Must Remember This
1994 Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
Orchestrator:
1972 Don't Play Us Cheap
1973 The House That Cried Murder
1986 The Gift Of Amazing Grace
1987 Just A Regular Kid: An AIDS Story
1992 Stompin' at the Savoy
1992 You Must Remember This
1994 Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
2016 Hairspray Live!
2021 The Wiz
Original Music Composer:
1972 Don't Play Us Cheap
1973 The House That Cried Murder
1986 The Gift Of Amazing Grace
1987 Just A Regular Kid: An AIDS Story
1992 Stompin' at the Savoy
1992 You Must Remember This
1994 Blood Brothers
1994 Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
1997 Love! Valour! Compassion!
2016 Hairspray Live!
2021 The Wiz
Music:
1993 Laurel Avenue
Orchestrator:
1956 Tony Awards
1993 Laurel Avenue
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.