>classical attitudes in Roger Williams and Liberace
Not wishing to get too far into this, I'd like to recommend Roger Williams's Latin album, 'Amor', which has some really great stuff on it. Slightly quiet, yes, but with a nice tight, slightly swinging bossa feel. His 'summer samba' is particularly excellent.
My appreciation of this song has really grown. The first version I heard was by Combustible Edison, strangely. And although I'm a big Wanderley fan, I'm not so crazy about Walter's version.
But the Marcos Valle version on 'samba 68', arranged by Eumir Deodato, is simply fabulous...
regards, Jonny
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Sandy Warner & A Noir Detour
Date: 07 Aug 1999 16:49:54 -0400
>1. Been buried deep in TCM's Summer of Darkness 40's-50's film noir
>festival (25 down, 65 to go)and loving almost every minute of it.
>Anybody else watchin?
Yes indeedy. It's almost too much... a hopeless backlog of unviewed tapes is building up (4 more movies last night). I've been tracking it with my own subjective picks at the ol' TV Scavenger:
http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/tvscavenger.html
Yes, wasn't Carolyn Jones cool in, er, was it "Shield For Murder" (they're blurring together)? I was trying to think of which contemporary actress she reminded me of in that role, but couldn't work it out.
Regarding Hitchcock, they're all (channels) rolling things out this week. To be fair to AMC, they do also have "Stage Fright" and "The Wrong Man" next Friday night. I'll give 'em residual bonus points for that letterbox airing of "Vertigo" a year or two ago.
I forget the details, but one of these new-fangled cable channels is doing a marathon of the entire "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series. Anyone have the skinny?
Also to their credit, AMC has quietly been running a lot of Vincent Price movies recently... even the Dr. Phibes pair. Some of the AIP flicks have music by Les Baxter.
A&E's Biography has a Carmen Miranda episode tonight (Saturday).
Bravo reruns the Stax documentary next Tuesday.
VH1 re-airs that recent Sonny & Cher bio-movie the same night.
Details at above (or below) link.
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I enjoyed seeing 'Alison Statton & Spike' at the Jazz cafe in London a couple of years back. I think she released some records under this incarnation, although I could be wrong. I hope she did, because the sound and the songs were fantastic.
regards, Jonny
PS Julie London does a great 'Occasional Man'. The song still makes me laugh - 'I go swimmin' wearing just a great big smile!', 'finest peaches, sandy beaches ...' etc...
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Its great to see so many covers that I love are done by Stefan Kassel. I like his style very much and also have many of the cds his work glosses the cover on. I like the music too! I see he is associated with the Marina label. Marina is a great label!
Yeah, this guy has really been involved in an incredible number of brilliant projects. I was surprised that his work for 'mondo morricone', 'moremondo morricone' and Combustible Edison's 'Impossible World' were not included.
regards, Jonny
PS. That German 'easy loungin' Bacharach compilation rocks!
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Frances Klein,Edward L. Palmer,Ross Elliott
Date: 18 Aug 1999 10:27:25 -0400
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Frances Klein, a Beverly Hills antique jeweler whose clientele included Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand, died Thursday at her Los Angeles home. She was 84.
Also active in charitable fund-raising, Mrs. Klein provided jewels to adorn models at fashion shows and celebrities at the Oscar awards.
The Klein collections of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings and other jeweled pieces appeared in several motion pictures, among them ``Mommy Dearest.''
The native of Turners Falls, Mass., she appeared in Hollywood productions as a chorus girl. She met her husband, Sidney J. Klein, in Tucson in 1942 and the couple spent the first 18 years of their marriage in Chicago.
After they moved to Los Angeles in 1960, Frances Klein specialized in collecting antiques, particularly antique jewelry. She began selling estate jewelry and antique pieces from one small case in a store on Beverly Drive. She eventually acquired the Rodeo Drive shop, and her husband joined her in operating the business.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Edward L. Palmer, one of the minds behind ``Sesame Street'' and other children's educational programs, has died of prostate cancer at 66.
Palmer, who died Aug. 1 in Ithaca, was among the first people hired in 1968 by Children's Television Workshop, parent company of ``Sesame Street,'' and his research gave the producers insights into how to hold preschoolers' attention.
Palmer found that children enjoyed watching other children and animals, loved music and slapstick, wanted characters to be kind to each other and were bored by adult talking heads. That led to the development of enormously popular characters such as Big Bird and Grover on ``Sesame Street,'' which first aired in 1969.
``He made a remarkable contribution both to our company and to the field of educational media,'' Shalom Fisch, vice president for program research at Children's Television Workshop, said Tuesday.
Palmer earned a doctorate in education from Michigan State University. He was vice president for research at Children's Television Workshop for 16 years and senior research fellow for three. He helped develop several programs for adults and three other well-known children's shows: ``Electric Company,'' ``3-2-1 Contact'' and ``Ghostwriter.''
Palmer held several university appointments, including one at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology, where he designed a model for evaluating the success of a program in which children and teachers observed birds at feeders.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ross Elliott, a character actor who appeared in ``I Love Lucy'' and many other television series, died of cancer Thursday. He was 82.
Elliott portrayed Sheriff Abbott for more than three years on the long-running 1960s Western series ``The Virginian.'' He was a series regular on the soap opera ``General Hospital,'' originating the role of Lee Baldwin.
Elliott had a recurring role on Lucille Ball's sitcom as Ricky Ricardo's agent.
Born in New York, Elliott began his acting career with Orson Welles' Mercury Theater, where he performed in Welles' famed radio program ``War of the Worlds.''
After serving in World War II, Elliott moved to Hollywood and appeared in films including ``Woman on the Run,'' ``D-Day the Sixth of June,'' ``Kelly's Heroes,'' ``Skyjacked'' and ``The Towering Inferno.''
His many TV credits included appearances on ``Gunsmoke,'' ``Alfred Hitchcock Presents,'' ``The Dick Van Dyke Show,'' ``Perry Mason,'' ``The Twilight Zone,'' ``Zane Grey Theater,'' ``Rawhide,'' ``Maverick'' and ``Little House on the Prairie.''
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Subject: (exotica) [news]Goodwill Branch Looks to Web Auctions
Date: 18 Aug 1999 10:46:43 -0400
August 17, 1999
Goodwill Branch Looks to Web Auctions
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANTA ANA, Calif. -- Goodwill, known for its thrift-shop
bargains, is taking up the Web gavel with an Internet auction site to sell choice items to the highest bidder.
The charity's Orange County office plans to launch shopGoodwill.com on Aug. 31, selling donated antiques, china and first-edition books from its local thrift stores. In October, the Web site will expand to include items from Goodwill stores around the world.
"When people think Goodwill, they think thrift shop," said John Harwood, Orange County Goodwill's senior Webmaster. "This is taking it to the next step. Except it's going to be the best stuff, and you won't have to hunt from store to store."
Like revenues from Goodwill thrift stores, money raised from Web auctions will go toward job training and placement for people with disabilities.
Web auction sites like eBay "have shown that there is an online market for quality goods," said Joan Dornbach, vice president for marketing at Orange County Goodwill. "Most of our store customers are people looking for daily goods at below-market values."
Goodwill is counting on Web surfers who do not have the time or patience to hunt through the charity's thrift stores to check out merchandise and pay market prices.
Charities have tried online auctions before, but usually as one-time sales organized by for-profit companies. Some Web auction sites also allow charities to sell goods with no fees or commissions.
Goodwill, though, appears to be the first charity to play Internet auctioneer itself.
"They aren't the first to come up with the auction idea by any means," said Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. "But I haven't heard of a charity having its own auction site. That should be interesting."
The Orange County Goodwill could wind up with extra money from small commissions it plans to charge for auctioning goods offered by other thrift shops.
Harwood said computers and the Internet offer new job opportunities for Goodwill clients, especially those with limited mobility, sight or hearing. A quadriplegic since 1978, Harwood said he got out of college in 1994 uncertain about what he would do.
"I got an internship at the Goodwill and they said, 'Here's our Web site. Do whatever you want with it,"' Harwood said. "So that's how I learned, by doing it."
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> Can anybody provide the corrections and/or details on this guy??
>
> I might be wrong about the name, but this guy has a new CD out that mixes the Blade Runner soundtrack into a dance tune. Sounded interesting while I was browsing through a store at the beach....
>
> - Nate
I've only heard his previous effort that samples part of the Braveheart
soundtrack... ugh. I'd steer clear personally. This list is getting stranger
and stranger... we'll be discussing the merits of Ibiza Trance Anthems '99
next... ( I imagine he's on that.)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Brion James, who played Leon the murderous replicant in ``Blade Runner'' and appeared in character roles in more than 100 other movies, died Aug. 7 after suffering a heart attack. He was 54.
The 6-foot, 3-inch James had key roles in such motion pictures as ``Corvette Summer,'' ``48 HRS'' and ``Another 48 HRS''.
James regarded his role as a studio executive in Robert Altman's ``The Player'' as a career turning point that led to a wider variety of roles. But the actor remained in greatest demand for thrillers, many of which went straight to video.
In the classic science fiction film ``Blade Runner,'' James was one of the four replicants pursued by a former police officer played by Harrison Ford.
James also appeared in a variety of TV movies and in guest roles on such series as ``The Waltons,'' ``CHiPs,'' ``Little House on the Prairie,'' ``The Dukes of Hazzard,'' ``The A-Team,'' ``Matlock,'' ``Miami Vice'' and ``Walker, Texas Ranger.''
HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) -- Charles Macaulay, last seen as the often-defeated prosecutor on television's ``The Perry Mason Mysteries,'' died Friday of cancer. He was 72.
Macaulay was a longtime actor and director in theater, TV and movies. Through his friendship with Raymond Burr, television's Perry Mason, Macaulay became a partner six years ago in the Raymond Burr Vineyards in Healdsburg.
Born and raised in Kentucky, Macaulay graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where he won the First Judges Medal.
In Hollywood he appeared as a guest star in over 200 television plays and co-starred in 23 feature films.
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A glance at the summer issue of "Hermenaut": The plague of "fake authenticity"
In his introduction to a special issue about "fake authenticity," Joshua Glenn, the journal's editor, asks: "Need an adjective to describe bars or restaurants with authentic themes ... or anything and everything re-enacted, authentically reproduced, and Disneyfied in general? Try: 'fake-authentic.'" He writes that "fake authenticity is that which is false, in the sense of 'counterfeited'." The "fake," he suggests, "is simply 'kitsch,' which can be transformed by the lovingly ironic person into 'camp.'"
However, the ubiquitous "'fake-authentic' is nothing but 'cheese.'" Mr. Glenn says that the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was the first to describe elements of fake authenticity, and that Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard noted its pervasiveness in 20th-century culture. Most distressing today, Mr. Glenn suggests, are such cultural phenomena as the national chain of Southern-juke-joint-theme restaurants, House of Blues, in which "ersatz graffiti confronts you in the toilet; pretend tobacco stains dot the ceilings." That indulgence in "simulacra," he proposes, is so "over-the-top" that it actually "rubs our noses in the impossibility of ever discovering an authenticity which has not always already been commodified."
As bleak as all that sounds, Mr. Glenn suggests there may be a way out through artistic creation informed by irony -- not "hip, sarcastic glibness." Rather: "The authenticity-seeking ironist-artist knows that authenticity is not out there somewhere. It needs to be 'created,'" and he suggests, apparently not ironically, that the "antihero of authenticity" must be "unafraid of seeming insincere, or even fake." The article is not available on line, but information about the journal may be found on its World-Wide Web site at
http://www.birdhouse.org/words/hermenaut/
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- Johnny Byrne, a guitarist who played with Ringo Starr in the pre-Beatles band Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, died Wednesday after collapsing at home. He was 59.
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes was one of Liverpool's most popular bands in the years before Beatlemania, but unlike a host of other Merseyside bands, it never had a record on the British hit charts.
Byrne and Alan Caldwell, who took the stage name of Rory Storm, started playing together in 1957 in a skiffle band called The Raving Texans, which combined elements of jazz, blues, country and folk. The group became the Hurricanes in 1959.
With Starr on drums, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes played at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, Germany, in late 1960, getting star billing over The Beatles.
Starr joined The Beatles in 1962.
The Hurricanes continued performing until 1967. Caldwell died in 1972, and Byrne went to work as an ambulance driver the same year.
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Subject: (exotica) On the Trail of Mark Twain with Peter Ustinov
Date: 25 Aug 1999 09:12:44 -0400
Of possible interest...
"On the Trail of Mark Twain with Peter Ustinov" -- a new multi-parter on PBS. A travelogue through Hawaii, New Zealand, India, South Africa, etc. retracing the route of Mark Twain's book, "Following The Equator".
