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  1. On the Joseph Williams stuff--I woul imagine he'd of been credited on the OST if he were significantly involved, since JW is his father an would probably want that. I'm guessing ppl have checked the OST and there's nothing there?
  2. Anybody hear this one before? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List
  3. "presented in collaboration with composer John Williams" Anyways, this is awesome!!!!
  4. Oh come on now. It's just that he doesn't give interviews that often and he's rarely ever asked about anything before 1975. There was that USC interview from 2005 where he talked about his schooling and auditioning and he had a very sharp recollection of all of that. He remembers. There's an interview from the 90s where JW mentions Because They're Young (and incorrectly credits it as his first ever film score). But he may have forgotten about it by now
  5. You've heard them all--best to skip the CDs and donate the money
  6. That's a great feature the (te OP). Fan reactions at the premiere had me smiling from ear to ear
  7. Reused in THE FURY? That didn't occur to me before you said it. I'll have to go and compare now. Yup, check out the beginning of "Gillian's Power."
  8. Would be a fascinating set of data to play around with. Right now my biggest limitation is data--as far as I know, nobody has ever compiled this stuff together in one neat dataset before, which means I have to input these data manually to an excel spreadsheet before reading it into R. With something like age and gender it's relatively quick--I can just paste the year somebody was born into the spreadsheet, and the gender segregated categories makes it easy to assign genders to the winners (even if it presents an oversimplified view of gender). But for something like race, it would be quite tedious given the less clear cut definitions of racial groups and myriad of ways to categorize people racially. I can't necessarily just go to somebody's wiki page to get a good idea of their race, while I can absolutely do that to determine their age. But if you already have these data, I would love to play around with them!
  9. Hi all, I was curious about the oft-made claim that superficial qualities like looks are weighted more heavily for female actresses than male actors. As Amy Poehler said at the Oscars this year, "Boyhood proves that there are still great roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40." To examine the extent to which these accusations are true, I examined the age of the winners for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress and graphed the results. The first graph suggests that there is indeed a disparity. The average age of a Best Actress/BSA winner is 37.9, while the average age of the Best Actor/BSA is 46.6. The second graph separates out the 4 different awards being examined. You can see that supporting actors are typically older than the leads, suggesting again that Hollywood may place considerable value in having a lead that is youthful. The average age of the winning supporter was 44.8, vs 40 for the lead. Interestingly, this disparity is greater for males than females. Male supporters were on average 6.1 years older than the leads, while female supporters were on average 3.8 years older.
  10. Fourth-hand information, actually. We heard from Doug who heard from "reporters" who heard from Bruce Broughton who heard from John Williams...
  11. My views on TMP have also changed over the years. I always loved "The Enterprise," and it used to be my favorite part of the score. I still love it, but my opinion of it has declined slightly. In its place, I've really been digging the last quarter of the score--all the V'ger stuff--is my new favorite part of the score. Really engaging material
  12. What's iffy about te performances? Been awhile since I listened but I remember them all bein pretty good. And it's a cool arrangement of the Sw music
  13. There was a period--right when I first joined--when it seemed like Koray and I were the only Zimmer fans.
  14. I recently saw this and was impressed. You might be interested. Worth a look... Out of curiosity, what is the statistical programming software you are using? That chart color scheme shouts R. Derp. I need to read posts more carefully. Cool analysis! How'd you end up in the world of statistical programming? Also, if you're just getting into the world of statistics I *strongly* *strongly* *strongly* recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Models-Practice-David-Freedman/dp/0521743850 It's highly readable but full of great insights into the modeling process and how not to go about it. It's not prescriptive, it doesn't tell you what to do (because there's no one right answer), but it helps you learn what to avoid. Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out. I got into this world by taking a few classes on R, but want to hone my skills beyond what we learn there Yeah, .NET and Java mostly. But I've recently started a data science Udacity course through work which includes Hadoop, MapReduce and R. I'm looking forward to it.Data Visualisation is very interesting to me. There is some very satisfying about taking raw data and displaying it in a nice user friendly graphic. Totally agree. Making pretty pictures out of a mess of numbers is extremely satisfying
  15. That is awesome. I saw it somewhere a few years ago but actually forgot about it. Thanks for sharing! I'm using R...do you code?
  16. Yup. I wanted to do worldwide, but I figured that would be a bit misleading since a) the Oscars are generally US-focused, b) can't adjust for inflation worldwide, which makes it impossible to look for trends over time and c) worldwide grosses are subject to the censorship from changing political regimes, while the US has been pretty consistent (at least since the 70s) in regards to censorship, etc. Mind you, it was only labeled because it was an outlier....meaning it grossed significantly more than most films. It grossed 377 million in 2003 dollars, and 510 million in 2015 dollars http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=returnoftheking.htm&adjust_yr=2015&p=.htm
  17. The point is to teach myself the statistical programming software...not all of the graphs are going to be important (especially not the ones I post on jwfAn) but to me they are somewhat interesting
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