Love & Mercy director Bill Pohlad made a bold choice with his Brian Wilson biopic: he cast both Paul Dano and John Cusack to play the legendary Beach Boys co-founder at different points in his life.

and not immediately feel like reaching for a Beach Boys album as soon as the credits roll. And that's regardless of age, as I think everyone from nostalgic boomers to the more open-minded millennials ...

One of the world’s leading songwriters died last week. Brian Wilson was a co-founder of The Beach Boys. Wilson wrote hundreds of songs since the early 1960s. The Beach Boys are considered an ...

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Actor Who Portrayed Late Beach Boys Legend Brian Wilson Offers ‘Love and Mercy’ to the ‘Maestro’ originally appeared on Parade. John Cusack, the actor who portrayed Brian Wilson in the acclaimed 2015 ...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson (John Cusack), under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in ...

The upcoming biopic, Love & Mercy, depicts a side of Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson that few have seen. The upcoming biopic, Love & Mercy, depicts a side of Beach Boys songwriter and ...

The idea of “the tortured artist” is a familiar one. People often think of Van Gogh cutting off his ear, or Hemingway shooting himself as proof that a “true” artist needs to suffer in order to be “a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The new film "Love & Mercy" offers movie and music fans plenty of "good vibrations." The film chronicles the rhythmic rise of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in the 60s, as well ...

The Beach Boys helped create a feel-good era in music known as the 'California Sound.' But years after the band hit it big, one of the co-founders, Brian Wilson, began to lose his grip on reality.

The Beach Boys' landmark 1966 album "Pet Sounds,” which helped raise pop music to new heights of gravitas, if not immediate appreciation, brims with bittersweet classics like "Wouldn't it be Nice" and ...