http://www.charlotte.com/entertainment/story/384549.html Korngold's scores still echo in today's films Charlotte.com 11/30/ 2007 Lawrence Toppman The man who invented modern film music died 50 years ago this week -- Thursday, to be as precise as he was. People wrote film soundtracks before Erich Wolfgang Korngold, but his were the first scores memorable enough to stand alone in concerts

http://www.charlotte.com/151/story/273737.html PUBLIC LIBRARY SERIES AT IMAGINON STARTS MONDAY Films that portray a South without syrup 5-movie run ends Oct. 29 with talk by NPR critic LAWRENCE TOPPMAN Movie Critic Buster Keaton in 1927's "The General." "The Birth of a Nation" may have established Southern stereotypes for millions of Americans in 1915, but American filmmakers haven't always