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[PennyO]

I always loved the instrumental A SUMMER PLACE

[bk]

You already have a BA, baby - a bitchin' ASS!

[bk]

What a way to start page four!  That's what I'M talkin' about.

[PennyO]

wOWZA - pAGE 4 DANCE TO a summer place... just heard Robins trilling - muz bih sprink.

[Ron Pulliam]

Hmmmmm...

Just read Stephen Holden's review of Kristin Chenoweth's concert at The Met... 'Tis a puzzlement.

How Daisy Mae’s Charm Finds a Home at the Met

One thing is definitely for sure...Ms. Chenoweth offered nothing for a "past-it" pissy queen.

[PennyO]

Honey! Nobody has told me about my bitchin ass in so long! Makes an old gal's... ummmm.... heart quiver!

[Rodzinski]

Jackie Earle Haley? Really? Man I had no idea he was in the running for an Oscar. That's really incredible.

[PennyO]

Well, I muz goh yend gat rrreddyih (can't get that russian accent outa mah haid!) for my daily attempt at training for the fabled LA Marathon... I did 7 miles yasturrdeyeh. Maybe 4 today? One of my toes is complaining...

Then, we got HOMEWORK!!!

[Jennifer]

Yes, DR Jennifer, I had read at TV GUIDE on-line that the last episodes of VERONICA MARS would be stand alone episodes with no recurring mystery. The show has had its best ratings this year, but I think the powers that be at the CW want to see what happens to the ratings if the show becomes more self-contained and not serialized. I can't blame them for being curious. If it helps to bring VERONICA back for a fourth season, I'm all for it.

And I'm so happy that it's on tonight instead of the CW showing the State of the Union Address. I had no plans to watch that (I'll read about it in the newspaper tomorrow), and this is a wonderful alternative. I'll also watch a new episode of DIRT on FX tonight.

I hope that they at least make the mysteries better if they are going to be self-contained in one show.  I still think this is a bad idea, since the absolute best part of the show is watching veronica solve this season long mysteries.

We don't get the CW here. So i am really hoping that fox has shorter coverage (we get Gilmore girls and Veronica Mars on fox).  I don't mind so much about gilmore girls (since a canadian station carries it tonight). But i'm worried about seeing veronica. The listings have it at 11pm (with no gilmore girls). but the website had them only showing half of veronica (can they even do that??).  Well hopefully all will go well. I am very anxious to get into this winter's mystery!

[PennyO]

Bye, kidz. More later.

[Rodzinski]

I need more time to think about the TOD

[Cason]

Hannibal was so over the top as a novel, there was no way I was going to see it on film, ever.  Especially given the creative team.

I just read Hannibal Rising, the latest in the Lecter-ology, and I was quite underwhelmed.  Judging from the trailers and source material, I'm sure the movie will be very much the same...

In terms of the novels and movies, I believe Silence of the Lambs is still king -- and bk, I agree with your assertion that SOTL is pretty much a perfect film.  Hannibal was way out there and just kind of mocked the monster that Hannial was in SOTL; then Red Dragon was just trying to be SOTL: Part II, as far as stylistically.  I have to say, I have not seen Manhunter which was the first attempt (by Michael Mann in 1986) to put the novel Red Dragon on film -- with William Petersen as Will Graham and Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, but I've heard it isn't anything to drop and go rent.

[bk]

By gum and by golly, we've left off Mr. Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood.

By gum and by golly, we've left off Mr. Miklos Rozsa - Providence and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and King of Kings.

[bk]

Of course, I must include The Miracle Worker by Mr. Laurence Rosenthal.

[bk]

The garage is calling me - calling me - to come out and package CDs - I don't want to, because it's COLD out there, so I'll wait until nine-thirty.

[Miss Karen]

I just read Hannibal Rising, the latest in the Lecter-ology, and I was quite underwhelmed.  Judging from the trailers and source material, I'm sure the movie will be very much the same...

In terms of the novels and movies, I believe Silence of the Lambs is still king -- and bk, I agree with your assertion that SOTL is pretty much a perfect film.  Hannibal was way out there and just kind of mocked the monster that Hannial was in SOTL; then Red Dragon was just trying to be SOTL: Part II, as far as stylistically.  I have to say, I have not seen Manhunter which was the first attempt (by Michael Mann in 1986) to put the novel Red Dragon on film -- with William Petersen as Will Graham and Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, but I've heard it isn't anything to drop and go rent.

DR Grasshopper..you little cutie...I saw Manhunter and as I recall I thought it was rather B-movie-ish so don't drop everything and go rent it -- stay focused on your one-act -  :-*The Task Master

[Miss Karen]

The garage is calling me - calling me - to come out and package CDs - I don't want to, because it's COLD out there, so I'll wait until nine-thirty.

What does your garage call you?

[Ron Pulliam]

I could list a couple of hundred GREAT film scores.

But, to narrow things down...some of my very favorite favorites are (off the top of my head and in no particular order)...

"The Egyptian" -- Alfred Newman & Bernard Herrmann
"To Kill A Mockingbird" -- Elmer Bernstein
"Return to Oz" -- David Shire
"Wuthering Heights" -- Alfred Newman
"In Love and War" -- Hugo Friedhofer
"Boy on a Dolphin" -- Hugo Friedhofer
"The Prisoner of Zenda" -- Alfred Newman
"Now, Voyager" -- Max Steiner
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
"Raintree County" -- John Green
"Resurrection" -- Maurice Jarre
"Sunset Boulevard" -- Franz Waxman
"El Cid" -- Miklos Rozsa
"Madame Bovary" -- Miklos Rozsa
"Spartacus" -- Alex North
"All Fall Down" -- Alex North
"Cleopatra" -- Alex North
"Mr. Skeffington" -- Franz Waxman
"The Cardinal" -- Jerome Moross
"The Big Country" -- Jerome Moross
"Exodus" -- Ernest Gold
"On the Beach" -- Ernest Gold
"Romeo and Juliet" -- Nino Rota
"Amarcord" -- Nino Rota
"Far From the Madding Crowd" -- Richard Rodney Bennett
"Murder on the Orient Express" -- Richard Rodney Bennett
"Out of Africa" -- John Barry
"Somewhere in Time" -- John Barry
"Goldfinger" -- John Barry
"Two for the Road" -- Henry Mancini
"Charade" -- Henry Mancini
"Lifeforce" -- Henry Mancini
"The Yellow Rolls-Royce" -- Riz Ortolani
"Airport" -- Alfred Newman
"How the West Was Won" -- Alfred Newman
"The Counterfeit Traitor" -- Alfred Newman
"Captain from Castile" -- Alfred Newman
"Prince Valiant" -- Franz Waxman
"The Spirit of St. Louis" -- Franz Waxman
"Prince of Foxes" -- Alfred Newman
"The Robe" -- Alfred Newman
"Citizen Kane" -- Bernard Herrmann
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" -- Bernard Herrmann
"Vertigo" -- Bernard Herrmann
"North By Northwest" -- Bernard Herrmann
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" -- Bernard Herrmann
"The High and the Mighty" -- Dimitri Tiomkin
"Portrait of Jennie" -- Dimitri Tiomkin
"Helen of Troy" -- Max Steiner
"Rome Adventure" -- Max Steiner
"Bunny Lake is Missing" -- Paul Glass
"The Lion in Winter" -- John Barry
"Bed and Breakfast" -- David Shire
"The Shoes of the Fisherman" -- Alex North
"Mutiny on the Bounty" -- Bronislau Kaper
"The Swan" -- Bronislau Kaper
"The Glass Slipper" -- Bronislau Kaper
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" -- Andre Previn
"Dead Riner" -- Andre Previn
"The Bad and the Beautiful" -- David Raksin
"Forever Amber" -- David Raksin
"Laura" -- David Raksin
"The Blue Max" -- Jerry Goldsmith
"The Sand Pebbles" -- Jerry Goldsmith
"The Other" -- Jerry Goldsmith
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture" -- Jerry Goldsmith
"Patton" -- Jerry Goldsmith
"The Reivers" -- John Williams
"The Towering Inferno" -- John Williams
"Jaws/Jaws II" -- John Williams
"Star Wars" -- John Williams
"Superman" -- John Williams
"Close Encoutners of the Third Kind" -- John Williams
"The Empire Strikes Back" -- John Williams
"E. T. the Extraterrestrial" -- John Williams
"The Accidental Tourist" -- John Williams
"Lost in Space" -- Bruce Broughton
"Silverado" -- Bruce Broughton
"The Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- Howard Shore
"Conan the Barbarian" -- Basil Poledouris
"The Blue Lagoon" -- Basil Poledouris
"The Swimmer" -- Marvin Hamlisch


...for just a few examples of great film scoring. IMO

[Ron Pulliam]

Are you on the list?

[elmore3003]

I've had HANNIBAL sitting on my to-watch shelf for years and have never had to stomach to watch it. My friends have said it's very violent and gory, and I'm afraid I just wouldn't last through it. (BTW, it was a gift; I didn't buy it for myself.)

The biggest problem for me was that the story is ridiculous after Harris' first two Lector novels.  Since all of Clarice's heterosexual interests in the novel were cut (Miss foster's decision?) from the film of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, it's harder to explain her romantic entanglement with Lector in the third film.

[bk]

I'd also include Spartacus and Exodus, two scores I LOVE.  For Previn, a composer I'm nutty about, it would be Two For The Seesaw and Inside Daisy Clover.

[Miss Karen]

Nino Rota's score for "Romeo and Juliet"  (the 1968 version) is to die for -- I love it, love it, love it.  It's theme song "What Is A Youth" -- ahhhhh!

The Sting, Dr. Zhivago, Titantic, The Godfather movies, and a lot of the family movies like The Lion King, Little Mermaid, etc. have fun, and at times, moving scores -- it's hard to think of all the ones I've enjoyed -- a lot of good music out there...and I lke the scores for the old cartoons and movies like the Little Rascals -- wacky, fun stuff that makes you want to do a jig to it...

[bk]

Miss Foster was only an actress in Silence - she had nothing to do with the script.  She goes into it quite a bit in the supplements.

[elmore3003]

Okay - so here's the story -

I show up for my "orientation" at the new college yesterday, and they give me a parking pass and a tour of the four rooms in an office building that pass for a "college" ... Then it's off to speak to the "professor" who teaches the first class, who'd like to speak to me before class, since i have missed the first two weeks.

He's this old 12-stepper, massively damaged from decades on the sauce. Just deliriously impressed that I went to Juilliard - he heard about it from the 'administration department". And did I really publish a novel?

So the class goes like this - we watched a terrible movie from the '80's, called UNDER THE INFLUENCE... we'll discuss the movie (well, probably not the MOVIE - but the subject of dysfunctional families torn apart by alcoholism). The following week, a 700-1200 word paper is due on alcoholism. At which time we will watch another movie about alcoholism. I missed the great Ray Milland LOST WEEKEND, but am encouraged to rent it. WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN, DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES are coming up. Of the thirteen of us in the class, 11 are in AA. OY.

then there was a break. Then a class in Abnormal Psychology, taught by a Russian woman, whose accent is so pronounced that even I could not decipher much of hvut chih sat. OY. There is a tyaxt boog I must buy, and she gave out assignments for each student to read some of the chapter and report on it, so that nobody really has to read very much. I have a 2-=30 minute report due on Feb. 5, on Dissociative Disorders. Hmmm... I can show a movie dealing with a disorder if I want, as long as I give a short review of the chapter yeen deh bug, first. OY.

Anyhow, by August, I'll have a BA...

ROTFLMAO!
So, why do I think this will be an interesting set of "back to college" posts?

[Miss Karen]

I'd also include Spartacus and Exodus, two scores I LOVE.  For Previn, a composer I'm nutty about, it would be Two For The Seesaw and Inside Daisy Clover.

Ooohh, yeah.  I forgot about those, too.  Exodus is good, very good....Good answer, BK!

[Cason]

DR Grasshopper..you little cutie...I saw Manhunter and as I recall I thought it was rather B-movie-ish so don't drop everything and go rent it -- stay focused on your one-act -  :-*The Task Master

Oops, I forgot to tell you - I decided to end up not directing, opting instead to just watch Manhunter over and over and over and over again...

[DERBRUCER]

In keeping with today's topic, Ennio Morricone  is getting an honorary award.

He wrote the score for the "real" Sacco and Vanzetti", and also (I think) for the Spaghetti western Edisaurus keeps longing for.

der Brucer

[Charles Pogue]

Fav films scores:

PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES...MIKLOS ROZSA
SPARTACUS...ALEX NORTH
MOONFLEET...MIKLOS ROZSA
ROBIN AND MARIAN...JOHN BARRY
THIEF OF BAGHDAD...MIKLOS ROSZA
SCOTT OF ANTARCTICA...RALPH VAUGHN WILLIAMS
SODOM & GOMMORRA...MIKLOS ROSZA
THE VIKINGS...MARIO NASCIMBENE ()
BEN-HUR...MIKLOS ROZSA
THE BIG COUNTRY...JEROME MOROSS
IVANHOE...MIKLOS ROSZA
LEGEND (The unreleased version)...JERRY GOLDSMITH
SPELLBOUND...MIKLOS ROSZA
ZULU...JOHN BARRY


Songs:

THE HIGH & THE MIGHTY...from the High and the Mighty
LAURA...from Laura
OUT OF THIS WORLD...from Out of This World
DAYDREAMER...from Daydreamer
OOO, WHAT A SON OF A BITCH I AM...from Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Hump and Find True Happiness.

[bk]

For Richard Rodney Bennett (another composer I'm nutty about) it would have to be Yanks.

And let us not forget Johnny Mandel - either The Americanization of Emily or Agatha.

[elmore3003]

Well, I muz goh yend gat rrreddyih (can't get that russian accent outa mah haid!) for my daily attempt at training for the fabled LA Marathon... I did 7 miles yasturrdeyeh. Maybe 4 today? One of my toes is complaining...

Then, we got HOMEWORK!!!

DR PennyO, that teacher will come in handy as prep for the OId Lady in CANDIDE some day!