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Jan 21, 2000 · Cradle Will Rock: Directed by Tim Robbins. With Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack. A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins.
In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity.
He composed a variety of modernist pieces with this elitist attitude in mind, from piano sonatas and concertos to operas and incidental music for films, but his 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock ironically launched him into the national spotlight because of its social and political relevance and accessibility.
[Chorus] And the cradle will rock. Yes, the cradle will rock. And I say, rock on! Ooh! Rock on! [Verse 2] And when some local kid gets down, they try and drum him out of town. They say, "You...
"And the Cradle Will Rock..." is a song written and performed by Van Halen. It appears on their 1980 album Women and Children First and was released as a single. It is also the first song released by the band that featured the keyboard playing of Eddie Van Halen.
Dec 24, 1999 · Tim Robbins ' sweeping, ambitious film "Cradle Will Rock" is a chronicle of that time, knitting together stories and characters both real and fictional, in a way similar to John Dos Passos' novel USA.
The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 play in music by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman. Set in Steeltown, U.S.A., the Brechtian allegory of corruption and corporate greed includes a panoply of social figures.
Witty and provocative. As labor strikes break out throughout the country, New York is alive with cultural revolution. Nelson Rockefeller (John Cusack) commissions Mexican artist Diego Rivera ...
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Dec 6, 2012 · Well, they say it's kinda frightnin' How this younger generation swings You know it's more than just some new sensation Well, the kid is into losin' sleep And he don't come home for half the week...
