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Aug 6, 2001 - 3:53 AM
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Robyn Hood
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The JAMES DEAN movie that aired last night on TNT gave us glimpses of some of the actors and directors that he worked with (Julie Harris, Martin Landau, etc.), but Leonard Rosenman was nowhere to be seen or heard.I'm hardly surprised, but I am disappointed. The movie itself seemed to be edited down from a much longer film, as if it were a three-hour movie fit into a two-hour time slot. And obviously, makers of the movie decided to stick with the names of the people Dean worked with in front of the camera primarily. The acting was terrific, especially Micheal Moriarty as Dean's father. The TV movies' score didn't reference either the REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE or EAST OF EDEN scores at all (though there was a snippet of EAST heard as people were leaving a theater playing the film).
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Leonard Rosenman's lack of representation in the film is least of its failings. The chronology: Dean was estranged from his father, went to live with his relatives after his mother died, decided to become an actor, went on auditions, got rejected, got work, fell in love with Pier Angeli (who, at that time was sleeping with practically everybody in Hollywood)whose mother wisely thought he was nothing but trouble, had a confrontation with his father that all-too-conveniently mirrored Dean's scene with Raymond Massey in which Cal tries to give his father the money he earned re-selling lettuce, then goes off and gets himself killed in the sports car that Jack Warner sensibly told him not to buy.To director Mark Rydell: handsome movie, with lots of good producion values -- and your performance as the oily despot Warner was the most memorable thing in it -- but... WHERE'S THE STORY??? That's the problem: THERE IS NONE, just the unsurprising aforementioned chronology (which is a too-typical Hollwood tale we've all heard before). I guess it got sold to the TNT brass on the basis of Dean's "oooh" factor. The guy who played Dean was surprisingly good, I'll admit, but because all Dean's would-be employers kept harping on his essential "weirdness," the other actors seemed as though they were in anoher movie, with their routine, chipper TV-caliber performances. The one exception was Michael Moriarty, who really seemed to inhabit his character and be in sync with Dean. Dean and all the others seemed to be talking past eah other most of the time. Too bad. Frankly, I think the addition of Rosenman as a charactr, and the part he played in Dean's life, would've served to add badly-needed texture to this superficial goo.
[This message has been edited by Originalthinkr@aol.com (edited 06 August 2001).]
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Forgive me for asking, but why would one expect a film composer to be featured in a biopic about an actor?
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Because Rosenman was one of Dean's closest friends. Dean himself picked him to score his movies, from what I've heard.NP: Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves (Michael Kamen)
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Oh, okay. I'm not familiar with Rosenman, so I didn't know.
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Get Lord of the Rings! NOW!  http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/biggrin.gif">NP: Love's Labour's Lost (Patrick Doyle et al.)
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Rosenman was Dean's piano eacher, who became a close friend. It was Dean who secured for Rosenman some his earliest scoring assignements.
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Dear Queen of Geeks,
You've got two threads going on the same subject, this one and "Leonard Rosenman". One thread contains questions that are already answered in the other thread. A bit beyond perceptions reach
I sometimes believe I see
That life is two locked boxes
Each containing the others key.
[This message has been edited by soundtrakker (edited 07 August 2001).]
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Aug 15, 2001 - 9:43 AM
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Ron Pulliam
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And where was Dean's roommate from New York?Who was it, you ask? WALLY COX!
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