Haines His Way

BK, I have an album of Shorty Rogers playing the suite he did for Denny Miller's Tarzan film.  The cover is a lion-clothed Denny lifting Shorty up in his arms.  It's a very jazzy score...which figures given that Shorty Rogers was a jazz musician.  Denny autographed it for me.

RE writers' rights: Yes, as far as I know, according to the WGA, the writers of movies for television should be sent the director's cut.

RE Tarzan music: As I recall, Charles Fox did an amusing score (on purpose, as it was a comedy-adventure) for TARZAN IN MANHATTAN, a CBS movie-of-the-week which was a backdoor pilot that never happened. Don't bother looking it up - it got relatively bad reviews. It wasn't horrible, it wasn't great. My only copy of the DVD is now in someone else's DVD library, so I can't listen to see if I'm right about the music. My favorite section of the score was a scene in which Cheetah is kindnapped by poachers and Tarzan goes to New York to find him - behind which you hear the usual action music - but if you listen carefully you realize that there is a male voice singing "Leave my monkey alone!"...
And, BTW, TZ IN MANHATTAN did sort of become a series - syndicated, not on CBS, and not set in NY. It was shot in Mexico. I co-produced (and wrote) it for a year, then bid a fond farewell. I like to watch Tarzan movies, but living with Tarzan 24/7 was not my thing. The series ran for a few years - played in Canada, too. Perhaps is on there, still. The Canadian DRs might know.

I now have 127 Overtures on my iPod... that's just from the cast recordings in my collection up to the middle of "O" and a few from iTunes.  What do you want for a rainy/windy Saturday afternoon!!!  

BTW - There seems to have been some kind of a Superman curse on TZ IN M and the subsequent series. Several of the actors met untimely ends - including TZ's stunt-double.

I love the snow picture from your window, DR Jane!  I'm not so sure I would want to go out in it but it sure is pretty in the picture.

Good Health vibes to DR Elmore!  I'm so sorry to hear that your under the weather.  

Question for any DRs who watch MEDIUM.

Did NBC show a new episode on Thursday?  Here NBC showed what the Canadian station was showing, which was the pilot episode.

Limbo!

Jennifer we were very disappointed to find the rerun of the pilot and not a new episode of MEDIUM as promised.

Jane - What a lovely snow view you have!  After the foot of snow we had just before Christmas, I thought I'd never want to see another flake, but your picture changed my mind.

Elmore - Sorry to hear you're not feeling well.  You did the right thing, staying home today.

Favorite Bacharach instrumental:  "Pacific Coast Highway."  When I first heard this, I imagined myself driving a red convertible along the coast.  Now, it's just a staid Buick along the Great Miami River (which is now flooding all over the place, due to massive snow-melt and rain, rain, rain.  Yesterday, my drive to work had a detour.

I went back to look at DR Jane's pic. It IS lovely.

The rain just keeps comin'.  There has been so much rain in the last there days that we now have the phenomenon known as the pot hole occuring here and there.  The little side street that leads to Carny's and Staples and Jerry's and Bed and Bath is almost undriveable so littered with pot holes is it.

Re:  rats.  One of the biggest tips I ever received as a lounge pianist was one night when someone asked me to play "Ben" (the Michael Jackson tune about...well, you know).  I did (it's actually a very sweet little song), at which point she came up and stuffed $80 in my tip jar and told me she had been requesting that song for 20 years and I was the first guy who had known it.  

I went back to look at DR Jane's pic. It IS lovely.

Yes, it looks like a Currier & Ives' postcard, doesn't it?

We also have a phenomenon known as the SINK hole.  Nasty things.  They have been known to swallow houses and cars up whole.

Yes, that's terrible.... but as long as it's only things that they swallow, it's more business for insurances!