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This is obviously popular music in 1934, but in 2022 it's closer to classical than what we would think of as pop.
Either way, it's a really lovely, florid arrangement of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," reminds me of the style of 30s Hollywood musicals.
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Didn’t Lucas get the Irving Thalberg award that the Academy gives out? I think it’s meant to be even more respectable than the honorary Oscar. They don’t give one out every year.
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We should place bets on what year the inevitable honorary Oscar comes.
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How many people would have guessed that Rain Man was the 2nd biggest hit of Cruise’s career? Be honest!
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Top Gun 2 is about about to be the biggest inflation-adjusted hit of Cruise's entire career at age 59! And actually he's turning 60 in less than a month. Nobody on Earth, not even Tom Cruise, would have predicted that.
TG2 will almost certainly surpass that 437 number
(it annoys me that The Numbers included Austin Powers in this list. cameos don't count!)
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IMO the four greatest piano solo recordings of the 1920s
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1 hour ago, Sweeping Strings said:
plus it has probably lured older, nostalgic moviegoers back to cinemas for the first time in a while.
This is for sure part of it. Paramount said "about 55 percent of ticket buyers were over the age of 35" for the opening weekend, which is unheard of for a modern blockbuster.
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On 04/06/2022 at 8:44 AM, Bespin said:
I started "Only Murders in the Building" on Disney+ (yes... ehhh... I recently reactivated my subscription to watch the two Ewoks movies).
Well the Episode 3 with the cat, I don't remember laughing like that!
Steven Martin always was a favourite.
Can't wait for season 2 to start later this month!
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Trouble With Harry one of Herrmann's best
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Makes zero sense to compare them head-to-head. I abstain.
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It's all but assured that Top Gun 2 will outgross Doctor Strange 2 (at least for the American box office) which I don't think *anyone* would have predicted 2 months ago.
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Andre Previn's debut album on Contemporary Records (a cornerstone label for the LA jazz scene of the 50s and 60s)
Woof!
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I look at my slovenly, lazy, "bare minimum is good enough" lifestyle and I have to say no, he's probably not a role model for me.
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1 hour ago, bruce marshall said:
Speaking for myself....
I read the plot summary and it was a retread of several films that used the same contrivance
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I saw McCartney back in 2015. It wasn't a jaw-dropping show by any means, but yeah it's nice to say I've seen him and he's doing pretty darn well for his age.
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It's just a tweet, guys. Calm down.
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What a fantastic matte painting. The Klingon warbird might be my personal favorite ship design in Trek, certainly top 3.
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Teddy Wilson playing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." I love all the innovators and iconoclasts that came later (Powell, Monk, Garner, Evans, Jarrett, etc. etc.), but in my mind Teddy Wilson will always be what jazz piano is meant to sound like.
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4 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:Doyle is single-handedly responsible for making me pay attention to film music with his Goblet of Fire masterpiece
You had me!
4 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:I hated every JW score I ever heard as a child and teenager
And then you lost me
The Alan Silvestri Thread
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Confession: Father of the Bride Part II is my most listened to Silvestri OST, more than any BTTF or Predator or Gump or Contact. It's such a great listening experience!
The first movie is obviously miles better than the second as a film, but man what a score.