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The Reason Christopher Nolan Films Look Like Christopher Nolan Films

With the The Dark Knight Rises' director's longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister stepping down, his movies' distinctive visual style could change.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/the-reason-christopher-nolan-films-look-like-christopher-nolan-films/260087/

A very good article...

Character Actor Steve Franken Dies at 80

His film résumé includes a memorable slapstick turn as a drunken servant opposite Peter Sellers in Blake Edwards’The Party (1968) and roles in The Americanization of Emily(1964), Panic in the City (1968), Which Way to the Front?(1970), Westworld (1973), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud(1975), The Missouri Breaks (1976), The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Nurse Betty(2000), Angels & Demons (2009) and Reach, a movie not yet released.

On Dobie Gillis, which ran from 1959-63 on CBS, Franken played Chatsworth Osborne Jr., a millionaire dilettante who spars with Dobie (Hickman) and beatnik Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). Chatsworth is introduced in the show’s first season as a cousin to Warren Beatty’s character, Milton Armitage. (Beatty left the series after one season.)

Despite recent reports, Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is NOT dead

Davnes007 said:

FanFiltration said:

Pic fail? Or, is it just me?

Here, I changed the source address of the link.

I'll get OHMSS for X-mas, then The Spy Who Loved Me, and Moonraker sometime next year.  With that TOS Star Trek Soundtrack box coming out, I can't go all out and pay for Bond films that I don't respect. My SE DVD's still play, so I am sticking with that format for the films that I seldom look at. Besides, I will most likely return to LaserDisks of them anyway. 

It never ends...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ

Not too strange.. I saw that my local mall just opened their yearly Halloween Store.  Oh, and BIG LOTS has the X-Mas lights up for sale as of last week... 

Neil Armstrong (82)

Demonoid is DEAD!

Demonoid Domain Names Now Up For Sale

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408369,00.asp

Phyllis Diller, dead at 95

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/phyllis-diller-dead-at-95.html

SilverWook said:

Shocking and sad news. Wasn't he going to be involved with the Top Gun sequel?

There is going to be a Top Gun sequel? Now that truly is shocking and sad news!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McKenzie
Scott McKenzie (born Philip Wallach Blondheim, January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) was an American singer. He is best known for his 1967 hit single and generational anthem, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)".

I am going to add "Ghostbusters" 

"Mondo Hollywood" (1967)

The film presents a series of vignettes of the more extreme aspects of life in Hollywood - and Los Angeles as a whole - of the period.

Very satanic!  

SilverWook said:

He did invent the "Special Edition" with Close Encounters though. Have people forgotten the "inside the mothership" ending already? ;)

I'll be happy to own 1941 on Blu Ray even if the wires holding up the models can be seen.

And he changed the title of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Actress Phyllis Thaxter, Superman's Mom, Dies at 90

She played Ma Kent in the 1978 superhero film after appearing years earlier in such classics as “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” and “Act of Violence.” 

For other soundtracks, try King Kong (76) Out of Africa, Peggy Sue Got Married, Black Hole.

In the past, I have taken the non-theme cues from Moonraker, Octopussy, and A View to a Kill, and broken them up removing and saving the sections with standard Barry like bond motifs and flourishes, and discarding anything that would would refer to the films main title or other character's themes.  Then I would edit and mix the saved Bond bits into the cues from King Kong (76) Out of Africa, Peggy Sue Got Married, Black Hole. 

This would leave me with new original bond cues by John Barry.

Remember that you just need to remove all the motifs and flourishes that would identify what movie the cue is from by the Main title or character themes.

Just keep the generic bits, and jumble them together adding the Bond theme into the mix when required...

Hope that made sense .  

Edit: you might also want to use some sections and bits from cues on the "The Deep" and "Dances With Wolves" soundtracks for darker sections of the film.  

SilverWook said:

IIRC, there's a shot in the "Free as a Bird" music video that pokes fun at the whole Dead is Paul thing.

The equally bizarre "Is Stig Dead?" controversy has never really been settled though. ;)

http://www.rutles.org/rstig.html

No,Stig is not dead. He's just in Australia with Leggy. 

We can still stay in contact with taping the table, and postcards. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mefEKqzq8cg

Warbler said:

zombie84 said:. It strikes me as similar to the likely scenario of how the Beatles started playing on the Paul-is-Dead theory

I just dead a quick internet search to find out what the Paul-is-Dead theory was.   I had never heard of it before.    So let me get this straight,  some people actually believe that Paul McCartney died in 1967 and a look-a-like has been posing as McCartney ever since?    So they believe that the guy performing at Olympics opening ceremony was not Paul McCartney, but a look-a-like?   My god, people are crazy. 

I never knew anyone who truly believed this, but I know that is was fun to find the clues on the albums and in the songs when I was a kid.  I think it was more about whether the Beatles would pull this type of joke/stunt just to tease their fans. Was it a real planed joke, or just a series of obscure symbolism put together by some crazy American Disc Jockey? 

Shocking! 

It is all so very entertaining. The hoax data, the NASA data...

Having lived in Florida, I have seen the launch and landing of the shuttle. 

I am just so entertained by it all.