We're back from our idyllic few days at the coast. It was truly stunning there--perfect weather. We even saw a Double Rainbow (DR Joey, if you haven't heard it yet, get Jobim's song of the same name, which was released in English at the same time as Waters of March, though it was originally written as an instrumental for the soundtrack to The Adventurers).
TOD which synchronistically (that's a word, isn't it?) touches on my trip to the coast: Regarding Song of the South, I think I posted here several months ago that Leonard Maltin, who contacted me about my Frances Farmer article, indicated that it was indeed in the DVD works and has been for some time. Mr. Maltin had a long e-discourse about PC-ness in film, specifically in relationship to the Farmer/Barrymore film World Premiere, which had several (to me, anyway) inexplicable cuts made through the years. Mr. Maltin made it quite clear that he is as frustrated as any of us over Disney's refusal to let the film and its milieu (sp?) speak for itself.
Anyway, here's a little trivia regarding World Premiere that maybe one of you film scholars can answer for me: I was channel surfing at our timeshare at the coast, because they have cable (which we don't at home, luddites that we are). I caught the last five or so minutes of the W.C. Fields film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, which I had never seen before. Well imagine my surprise when the credits began to roll, the underscore was the same as the credits underscore for World Premiere. This strikes me as very strange, as Sucker was a Universal release and WP a Paramount. I looked on IMDb and Sucker was scored by Frank Skinner and Charles Previn. I'm thinking Skinner might have scored WP (the music credits aren't on IMDb, and I can't remember right now), so maybe he was able to use this same music for two films.
