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I cannot imagine either! That is the most Gawd awful thing I have ever heard! Mitch Miller should have played Harry Lime.

Sol Kaplan's score for Salt of the Earth (1954) is great.

Ennio Morricone took A Fistful of Dollars (1964) to an entirely new level.

These films were already on the 'great' side but Elmer Bernstein's score took them to a whole new level: The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Great Escape (1963).

So that's the three is it? James Horner, Dick van Patten and Patrick Macnee.

I've already mentioned Umas Das Gupta in Pather Panchali. Here are a few more notable juvenile performances in foreign languages: Renaldo Smordini, Shoeshine (1946) Alfonso Mejia, Los Olvidados (1950) Georges Puojouly and Brigitte Fossey in Forbidden Games (1953) Eduardo Nevola, The Railroad Man (1956) Renaldo Bonacchi, The Wide Blue Road (1957) Nikolai Burlyayev, Ivan's Childhood (1958) Gilberto Moura, Pixote (1981) Andrej Chalimon, Koyla (1996) Vinicius de Oliveria, Central Station (1998) and I think this was in English but she was good too ... Suzaka Oghu, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

O.J. has been devoting all of his time trying to catch the real killers of Nicole and Ron Brown. Based on an anonymous tip, O.J. spent years hanging out at various golf courses where he had heard the killer might be. Then when he was tipped off that the killer had been arrested on some other felony, Simpson got himself arrested so he could go undercover in the federal penitentiary and continue his lifelong quest to bring the man to justice. And there might even be a tv movie in that too.

I agree. Silents are great to see on the big screen with live music accompaniment. Those huge sets and thousands of extras. They are spectacular. But watch them at home on television and I am often dozing off at about the fifty minute mark. I'm not a fan of Red Desert or Zabriskie Point, or The Passenger or even some of the Fellini that TCM has shown such as Juliet of the Spirits but really liked these which I have seen in the theatre... Antonioni ... Chronicle of Love (1950) La Signora Senza Camelie (1953) L'Avventura (1960) La Notte (1961) Blowup (1966) Fellini ... Variety Lights (1950) The White Sheik (1952) I Vitelloni (1953) La Strada (1954) The Nights of Cabiria (1957) La Dolce Vita (1960) 8 1/2 (1963) Satyricon (1969) Amarcord (1973) After listing the ones that I liked I guess you could say that I am a fan of these two.

How about The Third Man? Has anyone ever discussed its score before? LOL I promise to add something sensible a bit later filmlover.

Yeah, I'm not sure where Logan's Run fit in with the pin up girl theme. Was it that very small part for Farrah Fawcett? Jenny Agutter is cute but no Raquel Welch or Ursula Andress. Laura Antonelli might have been a more interesting choice. Tigers in Lipstick has both Antonelli and Andress in it.

If I had to pick just two favourites it would be these.

Someone who gave Ivan Jandl of The Search a run for his money for the best juvenile performance of 1948 was Bobby Henrey as Felipe in The Fallen idol.

Thursday, June 25 4:30 p.m. The Walking Stick (1970) a David Hemmings film that I haven’t seen before 6:15 p.m. The System (1964) You could probably consider this Michael Winner film as a breakthrough role for the young, Oliver Reed. It definitely was a different direction than the Hammer horror movies that he had been doing. 10 p.m. Brainstorm (1983) I’ve never seen this fateful Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood film.

Virginia City I believe.

Wednesday, June 24 These are the pin up girls that I remember from my youth: Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress, Jane Fonda and a bit later on, Bo Derek too. 10 (1979) is genuinely funny thanks to Dudley Moore but the rest are just trashy guilty pleasures.

Maybe the person who wrote that didn't make it past the opening Juan Valdez newsreel which is in b&w.

I haven't seen it yet but I've heard that the filmmakers milked the death of Oswald at the hands of Ruby in the Dallas Police HQ basement for some five minutes. Jerry does all his typical contortions ad nausea, and then some.

Geesh ... how time flies JamesJazz.

Balalaika .... zither? What's the difference?

From the look of the clip at the Royal Opera House web site it does appear that this has been done before somewhere. It would be neat if they had a choir for the le Marseillaise.

Fans of Jerry Lewis will still have to wait for the release of his 1972 feature, The Day the Clown Cried. But Criterion has just announced plans to release Lewis', The Patsy (1966) which is not to be confused with the film of the same title Lewis released in 1964. In the previously unreleased 1966, The Patsy, Jerry Lewis takes on what some said was the role of his career, that of Lee Harvey Oswald. After a preview screening in 66, film critic Pauline Kael wrote, "This has to be one of the most tasteless films that I have ever seen. Particularly the scene during the Dallas press conference after the assassination where Oswald puts a glass tumbler in his mouth and chopsticks up his nose and mugs to the crowd. What was Lewis thinking?"

I caught Carmine Coppola and Napoleon at what was the O'Keeffe Centre in Toronto. The ending really was spectacular when the screen opened up. I also saw Philip Glass conducting Koyannisqatsi at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto which was good too. But I would love to see Philip Glass conducting his score for Dracula (1931) if that ever comes around. The original Dracula had no music so it would be quite easy to overlay it. I've seen quite a few silent films in London and sometimes they have modern DJ's doing what you would call score. It just doesn't work at all. It is like they are trying to outdo the movie instead of accompanying it.

Tuesday, June 23 Something for everyone here. Lots of Montgomery Clift during the day. 4:45 Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954) I doubt very much that this is going to be this year’s restoration of the De Sica film. It looks to have a maximum running time of 75 minutes. It is playing as Terminal Station at the Toronto Cinematheque in August at 82 minutes with ‘missing footage and original title restored.’ 8 p.m. Dames (1934) With Dick Powell and Joan Blondell. Neve seen this one. 9:45 p.m. The Last of Sheila (1973) Lots of people like this film, myself included. Anthony Perkins co-scripted with Stephen Sondheim. And it’s got Raquel Welch in it! 1:45 a.m. O Lucky Man (1973) by Lindsay Anderson with great Alan Price songs.

Vanished (1971) with Richard Widmark and James Farentino. Eleanor Parker, William Shatner, E.G. Marshall and Larry Hagman co-star. This was a favourite of mine at the time. Widmark received an Emmy nomination.

"English Prisoners! .. Be happy in your work." - Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai