551 - villagardens553, musing on what might have been, had Lewis & Clark endeavoured to write a book(s) about Jerry Goldsmith, in that on-going soap-opera that is, THE JERRY GOLDSMITH COMPANION thread...
It is sad that the very first words on this thread are: Coming in 2022.
And here we are.
Just a side note: Lewis and Clark and entourage left St. Louis in May of 1804, travelling up the Missouri River in their keelboat and pirogues.
They made it to the Pacific Ocean in November of 1805, just a year and a half later.
I write things like that? Even to a guy like me, that's cold! --------
552. Disco Stu (being his usual unfiltered, high ABV % self) understanding the subtler messages of Mannix and The Rockford Files in the hallowed, epic, legendary, and beloved-by-all "Another Phelps Random Mannix TOS Post":
"With the amount of pussy these guys must have been crushing it amazes me they still ended up with blue balls.
"(let's all expect this to be one of my less proud remarks)
553. Bruce Kimmel reflects on himself and what he knew but also on The Other, in "CD Club: The Other (Jerry Goldsmith)":
"A little history for the folks who enjoy history. I facilitated the Fox deal with Varese because Nick would not work with anyone but me who was there at that time. One of the first things I asked about was The Other. When he finally got around to it, it was coupled with The Mephisto Waltz. I was very disappointed in The Other, but apparently whatever source they used did the best that one could do twenty-five-years ago. I was also disappointed it was a suite in one track, but I never encroached on the Fox releases - they were Nick's babies, not mine. I'm not sure how Varese got away with it, but as you know they own all the Fox titles we did in perpetuity. I kept hoping that they'd get around to The Other again, although I knew that would not happen when Nick was alive. But here we are, years later and we finally have the release I hoped for - the complete score, with superb work done by Chris Malone with what I know were problematic sources. I got it digitally because I could not wait, and also because I'm kind of bored with CDs that end up costing almost thirty bucks that are traveling from ten miles to my location. The digital sounds great from Amazon and I'd imagine also from Apple Music.
"I read The Other when it came out and I thought it was a great book - clever, evocative, horrifying, and with surprising at every turn. I didn't see how anyone could ever turn it into a movie because the reason its central device works perfectly is because its a literary device. I got alerted that there was a sneak preview of the film and I got invited to go. If memory serves, the preview was at the Bruin Theater in Westwood several weeks before it would open at the National. I knew virtually nothing about the movie version - not the cast, not the director - nothing. The second the main titles began I knew it was a Jerry Goldsmith score. Score one for the movie. Then when Uta Hagen's name came up I was thrilled, as I'd loved the recording on Columbia of the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and her performance on it, which was stunning. Score another for the film. Screenplay by the book's author Tom Tryon. Score another. Finally, directed by Robert Mulligan, a favorite director of mine whose career was about to derail after some pretty great films. Perfect score so far.
"The other cast was, I thought, well chosen, especially the twin boys. And I thought they'd done a reasonable job of dealing with that literary device and making it work for a visual medium - not perfectly and certainly not nearly as potent as the book. Ms. Hagen was wonderful, as I knew she would be - a shame she didn't do other film work. I thought some sequences worked perfectly - the imagining game of flying, which worked so wonderfully specifically because of Goldsmith's cue. The period, the photography, were all spot on. But there was something off and I knew it wouldn't be a big hit. It just didn't quite work and, for me, one of the reasons was because Mr. Mulligan was afraid to make the horror really visceral - it was too restrained and tasteful for its own good. ."
554. Nicolai in the "Qobuz changes terms of service and withdraws album thread sharing his username and "deceptively clever" password with the world. Hopefully after someone helps him out he'll change his password to something more clever like "password2"
Thanks, Shaun! You're the best, what would I do without you.
Username is: SpectacularMan Password: password
I chose "password" as password because that is so deceptively clever... I mean, no one would ever suspect that.
555. Nicolai P. Zwar, despite being in beautiful Italy, simply cannot resist the greater allure that is the Olde FSM Boarde in "What's Your Weather Like- Right Now?":
"I am currently in Malcesine, Italy, and while the weather is rather cool for this time of the year, at least most days are sunny.
"All around us are the locations where the opening scene for A QUANTUM SOLACE was filmed; I remember the first time I saw the movie I thought wow, I know these roads and tunnels, as I've been quite often to Lake Garda and Tremosine and Navene etc. Was quite fun that a Bond scene was shot at a location so familiar to me. In fact, they crashed an Aston Martin down into the lake, and you can still see where they had to repair the wall.
"Here's a video I took earlier this week, driving through one of the tunnels used in the film.
Nicolai is positively on fire now.
A couple of years ago, I had the good fortune of meeting Nick on one of Thor's "Cheers!" Zooms. In it, he bestowed upon me one of the most diplomatic and brutally neutral acknowledgements I've ever heard:
556 Solium surpassing himself with a most amusing response after hearing another Canadian was meeting up with Advise & Consent, in the Any FSMers in the Greater MONTREAL Area thread.
"Be careful, bring a friend, meet in a public place and don't drink anything he serves you!"
560. DavidinBerkeley in "Film props you'd...", making the thread more a grouchy bitchfest about following his totalitarian "rules" than for virgin nerds being "allowed" to choose the usual predictable sci-fi crap, which they do anyway.
"...love to own.
THE RULES
It must fit in your home. So no Millenium Falcons. (And don't lie and say your house is as big as Bill Conti's, okay?)
It must function. No light sabers, because if you picked up one, hit the "on" button, it won't light up (even if you make that fuzzy noise with your mouth, which dollars to doughnuts you'll probably try).
No miniatures*. (sigh! Do I have to say this again?) No Millenium Falcons......or Death Stars, King Kongs, or Fortresses of Solitude SPFX miniatures.
*Why? BECAUSE WE'RE KEEPING THIS A HORSE RACE. Every nerd wants franchise memorabilia, so I'd like to hear something else besides the above stuff, that's why."
