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Roberta Flack has my birthday. What hope it gives to have such talent in your sphere astrologically speaking. I wonder why the good looking man in the other thread didn't set her biggest hit on the list. But then, I thought I could pull up her LP recording easily, which is a masterpiece. The First Time I Ever. . . . tried to look this up. I will settle for this one. :/ Most of what I found was rushed in style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JWAmF-Z4r4 If you go to youtube, one of my favorite channels is Slo912's. His music is primo, and the sound -fantastic... his genre is soul. Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, Where Is The Love?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaFJXR6bf0Y

> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote} > Love the Lesley Gore and Irene Cara videos... :x > > Speaking of the original Fame, just watched it last week on blu-ray, and it is still as good as I remembered it, especially the scene where they come out and start singing and dancing in the street. One HAS to appreciate the amount of work require to pull that scene off! That easy impulse feel takes so much energy in planning, execution and post production, it makes my head hurt to think of it!

Lesley Gore needs no intro from me. She has a distinctive voice one can identify and that's the difference between a hit singer and one who's legendary... (remember that, distinctive voices. You are never forgotten) For singles trapped in this couples week, a couple of *pity party* favorites. It's My Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4 Maybe I Know: She is musician and songwriter herself. She, along with her brother Michael, wrote a song for the movie Fame that was nominated for the Academy Award. Out Here on My Own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ6deUmR248 Irene Cara's hit version from the 1980 movie.. actual clip/terrible sound (note TCM bug), or composite video/great sound. Lesley's has the feel of an intimate version of singing from a diary in her heart. Irene's has the feel of the anguished artist. Pounding on her piano, trying to sell it..

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Hey, CB Lover, it was the other hymn, the slower one that is referenced.... I'll think of it sooner or later. It may actually be a folk song rather than a hymn.... > > It will come to me. > Oh that part....Now you've got me trying to remember too.. LOL

Thanx, Holly! Candle count looks about right ! h5. It's not the years, it's not the miles, it's the smiles...

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > *Sprocket man:* > *Next time I'm in LA, I would love a studio tour with you!* > > Count me in as well! Especially if it includes the old MGM lots around Sony today. I was thinking the Warner/Paramount Lots.. The Paramount backlot has a lot of character, and streets are arranged very clever, to accomodate multiple shoot schedules. The Sony Lot was pretty disappointing to me. Looks too spiffy in places, and too blank in others.. though I found the business offices actually pretty interesting. My son had me tag along once. Kyle in Hollywood would Love it! Some incredible movie posters grace the walls.. Primo displays!

Awesome choice, Jack! Bare-chested and everything!

Funny, I live in the city. Almost never think it quiet. Copland's Quiet City: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH8LUUXBmjg from The Red Pony:

Copland's The Promise of Living does have the feel of soundtrack to *The American Experience.* The video is very good. Enjoy my friends as I seek more. I appreciate your kindness, I want to return it, ten-fold....

Jack and MM- Do you want me to look these up? JF may have been thinking of Simple Gifts (Shaker hymn): This portion of Appalachian Spring: During the holidays, the same melody is used for The Lord of the Dance (Revels). Different lyrics, giving it a distinctly different message. Quiet City!! Yes, YES *YES!* I have to check back to the thread; Thanks about the birthday wishes.. yours are the first. Bobby Darin, no less.. Do you think Joel McCrea is around to wish a happy birthday too? h5. I wonder who else shares the birthday tomorrow?

Carole King, who's birthday is one day ahead of mine. So Far Away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGMxMRNQC1A Natural Woman: One Fine Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwKgajHoTkM Woman to woman, she's one who helps this week.

Sprocket man: Next time I'm in LA, I would love a studio tour with you!

HI MM, welcome to National Heartbreak week over here. Your choice was nice, but I really like the Lincoln Portrait you posted on the other thread. I actually know the piece. Here another Copland composition that I really like, and I knew of this before The Beef Council did. I love the energy in this. Love his Rodeo. and I also love his Billy the Kid. Hoedown from Rodeo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqah1rucyRg From BIlly the Kid: Do you think other's here would know they're ballets? Love Aaron Copland, and also Charles Ives...

Keep hope alive. There are legislators trying to make off-shoring labor like that illegal. Just not enough of them, yet. How many here post from India?

This is dangerous territory here. If we slip into Eydie's style, then what could happen next? h5. it could be that we play the queen of heartache: h3. Vicki Carr! Let's not go there. ;-) Instead, focus on Eydie's cute "That Girl" hair and dress. If He Walked Into My Life: Carol King will be my next installment. You do what you want.

> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote} > > For a very long time, it used to be cheaper to just shoot in the backlot and maybe have a 2nd unit get some establishing shots or something. More recently, however, it seems almost anything that is set in America can be filmed in Canada instead, because it is cheaper for the studio. I know. How many are you aware the location of Juno is suggested to be Minnesota? I think it was shot in Vancouver, however.

A later Neil Sedaka hit.. I have a better recording on my iPod, though this is the best here.. The Immigrant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2KDj1A-QLU And another early one, from a long-forgotten LP. Back to his favorite subject in the early years, teen love. Let the People Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8h0GWwR_20

Neil Sedaka has some great hits, and sadly youtube doesn't carry them all. I love Eydie Gorme, and can see how he could have been influenced. His song list is impressive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Sedaka#Singles Many you can find many on Pandora.. Who here hasn't heard of Pandora? Keeps me having fun, even when it's heartbreak week... Neil Sedaka: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IQj4vEnaJU

I do feel validated as they use Whales in flight.. the action of the music has always suggested to me the movement of flight. Back to the bittersweet of the week. Neil Sedaka was like Bobby Darin in that he dropped out of classic (or formal) music to go the popular route. And, he's Eydie Gorme's cousin.. didn't know that. His song list is long, but I will note two favorites for Heartbreak week. You Mean Everything To Me: Should've Never Let You Go (with daughter Dara):

I'm relieved someone brought this up. Most productions never do *every* thing on location. Mostly establishing shots. Or the eccentric shot that ties to the location immediately. The unsung heroes of this discussion are Production Designers and DPs. They help put us into the story visually better than anyone else. Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House always struck me as shot in NYC/Conn, while it was Hollywood all the way. The house is still standing in Malibu Creek State Park.

No Immortal Beloved soundtrack? Amazingly, neither do I. But most of the music from the film is already on my iPod, and most of it Von Karajan. Today, Sunday, Super Sunday... otherwise called up here as Broken-hearted Sunday ('cuz of the VIkes) or in Church, "Coast Sunday" - pastors don't really even try with a message, unless they can tie forgiveness to a failed game and a missed chance. I was sitting in Church this morning, even more distracted by the light in the windows and my imagination than usual. During the sermon, my mind pulled up the earworm of Respighi's *Pines of Rome-Pines of the Appian Way*. And the scenario I had to write in a screenwriting class. Many instructors will have you write the action and Show the Story rather than try to tell the story. So my beloved embrace of dialog was quickly suspended on my first assignment. We could create any story but it must be a scenario that starts, has action, and a conclusion without dialog. The instructor did not say we couldn't have a inspiration point, however. I was always tied emotionally to this particular piece of music. An unrelated theme would come to my imagination about it. So, I wrote a brief script of a man returning to a woman waiting for him at the airport. Deja vu moment.. forgive me if I've written about this before. I timed the sequence to the music. Exteriors of the plane -mechanics of a large jet aircraft landing, air conditions, long shots of the airport and its closing in on the runway--intercut in with Interiors of the airliner and the man reacting in anticipation and anxiousness, and the woman at the airport waiting with matching feelings. Story ends at the moment the airliner touches the earth, and absolute joy spreads on the faces of my two protagonists. My instructor asked where the conflict was, and I said "It wasn't about conflict, but resolving the last obstacle." I got a Pass. It was pass/fail. This is the Disney version.. the music is truncated a bit, which I find very ironic since it's animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZeT07rqlU Again, my classical hero Von Karajan, with the version I would hear to my video, if I ever get to Editing class... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oqasTguizM Edited by: casablancalover on Feb 7, 2010 12:37 PM

I mentioned in another thread a resemblance between Gary Oldman's Beethoven and Herbert Von Karajan, who is recognized as one of Beethoven's best modern orchestra conductors.. I couldn't get quite the same angle.. Gary Oldman (as Beethoven) Von Karajan: Maybe it's just the hair. I kept thinking how similiar they were watching Immortal Beloved)

h4. The Music Box stairs When you get to Los Angeles, it is the 900 block on Vendome Street, in the Silver Lake neighborhood. The locale is not like the movie any longer, with real estate values and all.. It looks like this: There is a small plaque marking it on the second to the bottom stair.. Happy hunting!

I like the rarely seen Carol Reed drama, The Running Man (1963). That one starred Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick and Alan Bates. Two men and a woman starring-- you can tell where it's going. A Londoner (Harvey) fakes his death so he and --widow-- /wife Remick can live the good life in Spain on the Insurance money. Once there, they run into the Insurance agent (Bates). Great scenery, and very interesting story. Reed does very well incorporating his locales into the story. He does a wonderful job with Summertime with Rosanno Brazzi and Katharine Hepburn. btw, do not confuse this The Running Man with Schwartznegger's film of the same name. Reed's also makes a star out of a 1963 Lincoln convertible. It shows more personality than Arnold...

Bobby Darin, (Robert Walden Cassotto) earned a scholarship to Hunter College. He only stayed one year. He was a man on the mission. He wanted to be bigger than Sinatra. Tall order. According to the stories, he fell hard for Sandra Dee on the set of Come September. They married after the film. They were divorced 1967. Multiplication (from Come September): Bobby did country too. This one is a favorite, though I never hear it anymore: You're the Reason I'm Living (I like the double meaning): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOcJDB7kODg