Doug Fake's Review Column

Plug by Lukas Kendall

I've put this off too long -- it's time to plug one of the best film music review columns on the Internet, and it's one that many people probably don't know to read. This is "Doug's Corner," also titled "Douglass Fake's Something Old or Something New" and housed at the website of Intrada, the record label and mail order store which Doug has run since the 1980s.

This is not really a review column as much as an appreciative commentary of material that Doug finds interesting from week to week. The newest one is on the new Roy Webb recording by Marco Polo, but recent subjects have been everything from new scores like Gladiator to older works like Peyton Place and Born Free. In addition to Doug's clipped Hemingway-like prose, he also features musical insights and filmic ones -- Doug is a very good composer as well as a massive film music buff.

Doug has been doing a column more or less weekly since January 1999, so if you journey to http://www.intrada.com/doug/doug.htm you could probably spend the better part of a day drifting through his entries. I encourage everyone to do so.

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