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I thought that they named the stage "Curly."

The f word in question used to mean a standard measurement for a unit of firewood. Hence the connection to a woodwind and cigarette, for that matter. How it became slang is derived from firewood, but as connected to British boarding school practices, but I will leave those details out.

Tommy Lee Jones isn't black.

Will all the women look "big?"

The guy behind him sort of looks like Coppola as well.

Why, does he have the flu?

He just composed what was described as a very substantive piece for Vienna. He has time. Being in a wheelchair doesn't really affect the mind. In short, your post confuses me.

They asked him to, but he said that he was buried in things at the moment.

It makes sense, anytime that I take melanin, I tend to get sleepy.

I remember back when that Shatner video first circulated. Never got why it is described as him losing it. He maintains a cool self-presence during every moment of the exchange.

I think the whole Marion scene was the late addition. They realized just how dour the film was and wanted some last-minute fan service to have a happy ending. Tonally abrupt--might as well had Mutt walk through the door and say that the report of his death was a clerical mistake.

Williams was obviously correct. He knew that he had already score the ending, now he was doing it again, and the ending was different. Best case is that there was no reshoot, just different footage used. Either way, for Mangold to call his intelligence into question was insulting. Williams was being gas lite by his director! But, probably best for me to let it go.

Haydn wrote one symphony one hundred times. He mentioned that it really freed up his afternoons.

Cool. Great news. 15-20 minutes of the score already recorded! Williams and Spielberg worked it out. They agreed that the mothership, instead of communicating via tuba, will do so via a combination of celeste and xylophone.

There has been at least one recording session. Scroll back a couple of pages for the details.