Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

Apparently ‘reboot fever’, in which old properties are exhumed dusted off dragged from the archives for the purpose of maintaining rights ownership revisited for a new generation, has struck the folks at Disney, who are developing a new Rocketeer project. … Continue reading →

One of my favorite little things in The Music Man is the way Prof. Harold Hill is able to continually distract the School Board from investigating his background by tricking them into singing. Here’s one such example, which combines with … Continue reading →

I re-watched all of Carl Sagan’s epochally brilliant series Cosmos last fall and winter, and for a science series that is going on 32 years of age, it’s still moving and poetic and inspiring and, well, all the things that … Continue reading →

I suppose I’m one of a fairly small number of people in that my favorite Ridley Scott movie, by a wide margin, is Kingdom of Heaven, which I consider to be one of the finest epics I’ve seen. (But in … Continue reading →

If I gotta explain why on this one, well, that must be one finely appointed cave you’re livin’ in. That’s all I’m sayin’. Good luck to all the competitors, and GO TEAM USA!

I need to watch this movie again, having only seen it all the way through once on a VHS copy way back in college (and there may have been drinking involved), so my memories of it aren’t the best (although … Continue reading →

An interesting thing happened in the 2004 and the 2005 Academy awards: the first year, the Oscar for Best Original Score went to Howard Shore for his enormously epic score for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the … Continue reading →

Swashbuckling music was a going concern a hundred years before Erich Wolfgang Korngold was writing scores for Errol Flynn’s movies. Here is Hector Berlioz’s overture Le Corsaire.

Apropos of yesterday’s Random Wednesday Conversation Starter, I’ll put a couple favorite country and western songs of mine, as I can’t name just one. Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, “Seven Spanish Angels”. I love this because, in addition to its … Continue reading →