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Jan 25, 2020 - 10:36 AM
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Jim Phelps
(Member)
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385. Ron Hardcastle in "Confessions of an Art Book Junkie". Sadly, what our late Mr. Hardcastle discusses is probably the fate that awaits the books I've corralled over the years:
"A word about art books and, more to the point, the entire coffee table genre.
"As I've noted elsewhere, a not too close friend suffered a mild stroke a few weeks ago as he approached 80 and I had to rescue him and get him hospitalized and later put into a senior care facility, where he'll spent the remainder of his life. When he was unable to do anything but squirm on the floor, I went to his apartment across town, the first time I had even had his address (he uses a p.o. box for his mail), and was startled to find that he had thousands of books, many for art and architecture and photography and music and dance and cinema and political cartoonists and ... and ... and.... Probably the biggest category would be the history of musical theatre, with 3 or 4 big books on Stephen Sondheim, several individual ones on Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Larry Hart, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Noel Coward -- the list goes on and on and on -- plus some impressively massive tomes on the history of American and world theatre. He told me to take any that I wanted and to donate the rest to charitable organizations ... which is easier said than done! Some such organizations had absolutely no interest, while others would consider it only if the books were carefully boxed, which would be quite a job in itself. I wouldn't call this friend a "hoarder" in the usual sense of that word, but he has several large chests of drawers, with each drawer packed to the top with papers that he had carefully collected over several decades. And many of his closets were jammed with newspapers piled from the floor to the ceiling. I had offered a friend who regularly sells on eBAY and Amazon her pick of the books, but she finally decided, without seeing any of them, that there wouldn't be much of a market for such books -- and they are in excellent condition, with a number of them still sealed in plastic.
"Too bad I couldn't find a junkie of fine books to volunteer to come get 'em!"
https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=102319&forumID=7&archive=0
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Whatever happened to that Montana Davey? 
Seems to have gone out in a thread-starting bold-typing frenzy!!
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381. Sean Nethery in "Real Jazz That Sounds Like Crime Jazz."....
Sean Nethery: "Jim, I know we are a sometimes a silent minority, but I appreciate you posting these latest numbers. I've been enjoying Evolution on Spotfify - that's a new one to me. And you nailed it."
https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=116977&forumID=1&archive=0
Ooh, I finally got in here! Of course I had to be sucking up to Jim to do it.
But you made me go back to the album again, so bless your heart!
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