Topic: UP-TO-THE-MINUTE (Read 27066 times)

bk · « **Reply #120 on:** July 21, 2004, 04:55:03 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on July 21, 2004, 04:44:16 PM

Ask BK Question Day #2

Recently bought the Thunderbird Movie Set. How do they remaster the soundtracks from mono to DTS and/or Dolby 5.1? How can they keep the original director "vision" intact without changing it for modern audiences?

They have some way of taking the sound and faking it. Sometimes, though, they manage to find the stereo music tracks, so the music portion can be real stereo. They just spread it around as far as I can tell. As far as the original mix, be it mono or stereo, once they change it it is no longer the original film - the mix has been altered from what the director and his sound people had originally done. That's why the original mix should always be included.

bk · « **Reply #121 on:** July 21, 2004, 04:56:31 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on July 21, 2004, 04:47:33 PM

ASK BK QUESTION DAY #3

So many DVD now have "Documentaries" as part of their special editions. Why do they break them up into separate documentaries or give you the oportunity to "PLAY ALL" If you chose the later you still have to watch multi opening and closing credits for each individual documentary.

Why not just make one long one with multi chapter stops so you can skip over the parts that do not interest you?

From what I understand, it's because SAG got involved and insisted that these documentaries not be feature length or something. So, they now break them up to avoid problems although I don't know that SAG prevailed in that particular bit of idiocy.

bk · « **Reply #122 on:** July 21, 2004, 04:57:18 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on July 21, 2004, 04:48:47 PM

ASK BK Question Day #4

If they can restore films for home video why don't they restore the coming attractions or the behind the scene material as well?

It's not worth it to them to restore the ephemera. Simply not worth the cost.

bk · « **Reply #123 on:** July 21, 2004, 04:58:19 PM »

Re cast recording which several people have asked about: We shall see. Certainly a possibility.

bk · « **Reply #124 on:** July 21, 2004, 04:59:38 PM »

RE Paul Haber: He's certainly been around and is in Fear No Evil. He was in the Joe Namath/Robert Morse Sugar at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in 1978.

Robin · « **Reply #125 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:03:48 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 21, 2004, 04:55:03 PM

They have some way of taking the sound and faking it. Sometimes, though, they manage to find the stereo music tracks, so the music portion can be real stereo.

I remember buying some LPs in the early seventies which were re-mastered mono recordings, processed into this horrible fake stereophonic sound. It sounded muddy and distorted.

Luckily, there's been a lot of advances in remastering sound these days, but sometimes, these remastered movies sound terrible in their new versions. I'm thinking specifically of Jurassic Park, which sounds utterly spectacular on the laserdisc, but isn't very good on the deeveedee.

Which brings up another Ask BK question:

Have you ever recorded (or wanted to record) a song or a CD in glorious, monophonic sound?

Jane · « **Reply #126 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:06:34 PM »

RLP thanks for the date. I found Matt H on the calendar. Now I feel better.

TCB · « **Reply #127 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:09:34 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on July 21, 2004, 03:35:04 PM

Ok, I have researched "What If" cast member Paul Haber...he played gang member # 1 on an episode of MANIMAL, was Cute Investment Banker in an episode of SEX IN THE CITY, was a regular on the soap AS THE WORLD TURNS in 1999, and in the TV series SUPERIOR COURT in 1988, and he had a co-starring role in the horror film FEAR NO EVIL in 1981...seems like a neat guy and my kind of actor!

.................. male???

Michael · « **Reply #128 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:12:39 PM »

Quote from: Robin on July 21, 2004, 05:03:48 PM

I remember buying some LPs in the early seventies which were re-mastered mono recordings, processed into this horrible fake stereophonic sound. It sounded muddy and distorted.

Luckily, there's been a lot of advances in remastering sound these days, but sometimes, these remastered movies sound terrible in their new versions. I'm thinking specifically of Jurassic Park, which sounds utterly spectacular on the laserdisc, but isn't very good on the deeveedee.

Which brings up another Ask BK question:

Have you ever recorded (or wanted to record) a song or a CD in glorious, monophonic sound?

Was the hidden track I Love Fish in mono?

PennyO · « **Reply #129 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:16:31 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on July 21, 2004, 04:49:45 PM

DR Reader Penny O

Did I ever tell you how much I enjoyed your Jewish Thighs On Broadway?

No, Michael - but, jeez, I'm such a praise-junkie, it means the world to me to find out you read it and liked it! Thanks so much for letting me know... writing can be a lonely business. NEED that feedback. Yer a pal.

bk · « **Reply #130 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:19:54 PM »

Yes, I Love Fish was in mono, as was the beginning of one of the songs on Twiggy's album.

Michael · « **Reply #131 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:20:41 PM »

Quote from: PennyO on July 21, 2004, 05:16:31 PM

No, Michael - but, jeez, I'm such a praise-junkie, it means the world to me to find out you read it and liked it! Thanks so much for letting me know... writing can be a lonely business. NEED that feedback. Yer a pal.

I would love to see the stage version sometime.
And i think the trips to Europe section of the book would be a movie in itself!!!

bk · « **Reply #132 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:23:42 PM »

Off to rehearsal. Keep the home fries burning, as always, you dear, dear people out there in the dark.

PennyO · « **Reply #133 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:30:39 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on July 21, 2004, 05:20:41 PM

I would love to see the stage version sometime.
And i think the trips to Europe section of the book would be a movie in itself!!!

Send me your address at Malibran@aol.com, and I'll send you the DVD or video - your choice- of the dress rehearsal of last September's show at Seattle Fringe... with the proviso, of course, that if you have any friends in Florida theaters, you might allow me to use your name when I contact them with my promotional materials...

And I am working on another story, using the plot of those Europe chapters. Those actually HAD been another story, but I SO wanted to use them, so I put them in as part of the Jewish Thighs character's experience. Glad you like that, too!

Michael · « **Reply #134 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:32:48 PM »

BK any chance you will be using any Meltz and Ernst Songs. They deserve to be heard.

Sigerson Holmes · « **Reply #135 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:38:55 PM »

Blame it on my "one Trek mind," but BK's mention of Sol Kaplan's excellent score for "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" got me to whip out my "Doomsday Machine" soundtrack CD and look Mr. Kaplan up on imdb.

The CD's liner notes make mention of the lull in Kaplan's career during the '50s. He was blacklisted for refusing to name names for the HUAC. Still, imdb lists more than fifty projects he scored. It may only seem that he didn't do that many movie scores because his output was becoming less frequent during the time when soundtrack albums were becoming more popular. Is that possible?

Anyway, his two scores for "Star Trek," the first season's "The Enemy Within" and the second season's "The Doomsday Machine" contained some of the finest, most stylish and cerebral music written for the series. "Doomsday" in particular is memorable for its driving, throbbing theme for the menacing, funnel-shaped planet-eating device.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #136 on:** July 21, 2004, 06:08:58 PM »

DRMBarnum, I just finished watching your favorite movie, and I have one question: WHY IS IT YOUR FAVORITE FILM?

Jane · « **Reply #137 on:** July 21, 2004, 06:48:48 PM »

Sigerson next time I watch those STAR TREK episodes I will pay close attention to the music.

It is quiet here and I can’t keep the home fires burning alone.

Jane · « **Reply #138 on:** July 21, 2004, 06:51:16 PM »

I had to add that last statement since our official HHW cheerleader is also working, or having problems connecting again.

With that I'm off to take a shower but shall return before retiring for the evening.

Noel · « **Reply #139 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:03:27 PM »

I liked The Candy Man better when Mr. Sondheim slowed it down and added some suspended chords.

A food song by Oscar Brown I like is Food-o-phobia.

I had a wonderful time at Junie B. Jones, the new Marcy Heisler/Zina Goldrich musical. I think the choreographer should be canned, but, by about the third number, emotion kicks in and you just have to love it. Good to see Michael McCoy one-up Harvey Fierstein. And Mary Faber as Junie is a delight (she was the little girl "There Used To Be a Building" was sung to over two years ago. Now's she's grown up to be a six-year-old.)

Strange to find that the best new musical scores in New York right now are either written for children (Junie B. Jones, Children's Letters To God) or a spoof thereof (Avenue Q)

I've Marcy's cell-phone number now, BK. Do you still need it? Did you end up using one of their numbers?

Jane · « **Reply #140 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:04:26 PM »

I’m back. I want to send Danise something very special

GOOD SURGERY VIBES TOMORROW!!

For those of you who don’t remember, tomorrow is the day she has her rather large kidney stone removed.

Michael · « **Reply #141 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:11:37 PM »

I am off to Montreal tomorrow, but I will be checking in over the weekend. Continued good vibes to BK and cast and DR Jose.
Good vibes to all those who will need them in the next few days.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #142 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:36:09 PM »

Yes, let us tromp through August and we'll have a virtual gaggle of Virgo birthday celebrants.

Will there be a pride of kimlet Leos celebrating before then?

PennyO · « **Reply #143 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:39:46 PM »

Elmore, howz yer back today? Nothing is as demoralizing as relentless pain. I think those of us with recurrent back problems are proof that it's still a million years too early for us to be walking upright.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #144 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:40:46 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on July 21, 2004, 04:47:33 PM

ASK BK QUESTION DAY #3

So many DVD now have "Documentaries" as part of their special editions. Why do they break them up into separate documentaries or give you the oportunity to "PLAY ALL" If you chose the later you still have to watch multi opening and closing credits for each individual documentary.

Why not just make one long one with multi chapter stops so you can skip over the parts that do not interest you?

"Play All" is for the couch potatoes who don't have enough energy to press a remote button.

Think DR Noel's MIL, and her continual LOTR DVD watch while visiting Noel and DR Joy.

Frightening, isn't it.

(I'm just hoping she left DR Noel with more than her two cents worth.)

S. Woody White · « **Reply #145 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:43:01 PM »

Quote from: RLP on July 21, 2004, 07:36:09 PM

Yes, let us tromp through August and we'll have a virtual gaggle of Virgo birthday celebrants.

Will there be a pride of kimlet Leos celebrating before then?

Der Brucer celebrates on the 8th of Aug, and I on the 17th. We traditionally call the period between "Birthday Week." This saves energy, because we don't have to shift out of celebrate mode during the week.

But der B looks much better in pantaloons than I do. We've never figured out why.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #146 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:46:42 PM »

[size=20]PIE???[/size]
Did I hear people mention
[size=20]PIE???[/size]

The blazes with that imitation, store made crud. Alton Brown is demonstrating the beauties of pie-making on Good Eats, at 10:30 tonight on the Food Network. All West Coast DRs should be able to catch it.

A five-hundred word essay on the subject will be due promptly tomorrow at noon. Three pm, Eastern.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #147 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:49:03 PM »

And me on August 26th!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #148 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:50:05 PM »

Hmmmmmmmmm.....I know that we are rehearsing at night because everyone has a daytime job. But why is What If? rehearsing at night?

Jane · « **Reply #149 on:** July 21, 2004, 07:52:16 PM »

I feel so much better now.

Ron, thanks again for the laughs today.

I hope your arm is bothering less every day.

Off to watch something.

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