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Mar 27, 2004 - 9:57 PM
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Thor
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That's right. I accidentally caught a fairly recent episode of COLUMBO on Danish TV tonight. It was about a film composer who is strongly dependent upon his assistant because the latter is taking over the actual scoring while he himself is losing his creative spark (but still keeping the credit), and as the assistant threatens to tell this to the director, the film composer kills him (in a laborious fashion, with the stop-watch as one of the main tools....how appropriate)!!
This is the first time I've seen a dramatized story from the film music world. While the episode was pretty boring, the acting was stale, the story silly, the supposed "film music" crappy and many of the events unbelievable, it was refreshing to see an attempt on this. I wish someone could do another one, only much better.
At one point, the film composer (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Michael Kamen) plays the PSYCHO theme and a fucked-up JAWS theme for Columbo on his synth (for no particular reason), and Columbo, in his usual bumbling fashion, tries to guess where they're from. The film composer also tells Columbo that the best film music is the one you don't notice - an age-old prejudice that lacks nuance. Stupid things like that.
Anyone else seen it? Does anyone know who really wrote the music (both the score of the episode and the film composer character's own music)?
NP: BIG FISH (Elfman/various)
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Thor, I was going to post on the same topic.
A great idea for an ep that unfortunately didn't follow through. The lead actor was especially off the mark.
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Thor, I never noticed the Michael Kamen similarity. Thanks for pointing that out.
There was another movie themed COLUMBO with a killer obviously modeled on Steven Spielberg(look-alike Fisher Stevens).
The reason the composer plays JAWS and PSYCHO is twofold: to pad out the movie to two hours, and plug two other Universal pictures. Pathetic!
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I remember this one. I'm very fond of the series, altough the 90's ones do lack a certain 'bite' that the old ones had.
This episode certainly did amuse me. And I had not seen the resemblance to Michael Kamen. Thanks.
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Mar 28, 2004 - 1:09 PM
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manderley
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Back in the '60s there was a TV series called "Bracken's World", produced by Twentieth Century-Fox television which dealt every week with the inner-workings of life at a fictitious movie studio (but really TCF).
It always had big guest stars, like Anne Baxter, Ricardo Montalban, etc. and was a real hoot.
There was an "All About Eve" story of an aspiring actress working as the leading lady's assistant and slowly poisoning her so she could take over the role; Darren McGavin as a Director of Photography going blind whose gaffer was covering for him; an action actor whose son adored him until he found out his father didn't do all his own stunts; and Anne Baxter as a true actress diva who demanded her own cameraman, make-up, and wardrobe person with her so she could look glamorous, even in a tawdry kitchen-sink drama. That one was called "Diffusion".
I don't recall a film music episode, but I'll bet there was.
There were a lot of industry fans of this show in those days, and a bit of a guessing game as to who was being depicted.
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Back in the '60s there was a TV series called "Bracken's World"...I don't recall a film music episode, but I'll bet there was.
According to an online episode guide for this series, one of the last episodes was called "A Score Without Strings," which most likely concerned film music.
I love Columbo but found "Too Many Notes" to be quite unimpressive, even by the more lax standards of the recent movies. If this is the best they can do, it's time for Peter Falk to hang up his trenchcoat.
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Columbo is sitting together with the suspect at her kitchen table. The suspect knew Columbo had found out about her and poisoned/drugged him without him knowing it. While talking to her Columbo is slowly dosing off and a villain's victory appears to be unstoppable...
Does anyone knows what episode this is?
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Alex Cremers
That would be the aforementioned Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo. Helen Shaver was the villainess.
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