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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:00:05 -0400
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Benny Kalama, George C. Scott,Joel Beck
Benny Kalama
HONOLULU (AP) û Hawaiian music legend Benny Kalama, former musical director for the "Hawaii Calls" radio show, died Tuesday at his Lanikai home. He was 83.
Kalama, a falsetto singer and ukulele and bass player, performed with some of Hawaii's most famous musicians and was a member of the Royal Hawaiian Serenaders from 1948-1952.
His recording career started in 1938. His lone solo album, "He is Hawaiian Music," came out in the early 1980s. In 1993, Kalama received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- George C. Scott, whose eagle-like profile and commanding, gravel-voiced demeanor brought life to Gen. George S.
Patton and earned him an Oscar he refused to accept, has died. He
was 71.
Scott died Wednesday, Pat Mahoney, wife of Scott's publicist, Jim Mahoney, said Thursday.
Scott died at his home in Westlake Village in Ventura County, about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
She said she didn't know the cause of death. ``They just found him and are trying to find out what happened,'' she said. ``He was
on again, off again for a while. He just expired.''
The answering service for the Ventura County Coroner's office confirmed Scott had died but had no other information. The coroner
planned to release a statement this morning, County Sheriff's Sgt.
Paul Higgason said.
Scott captivated audiences in roles ranging from the dangerously explosive, yet sympathetic Patton in 1970 to the fatuous blowhard Gen. Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film ``Dr.
Strangelove.''
The two were opposite ends of a spectrum of his memorable film characters: the shark on the sidelines who tries to devour Paul
Newman in ``The Hustler''; the high-powered ringer brought in to
steamroller small-town lawyer James Stewart in ``Anatomy of a Murder''; the dedicated doctor ground down by red tape and
institutional incompetence in ``The Hospital.''
On television, he etched a gritty portrait of a social worker fighting a tide of urban misery in the television series ``East
Side/West Side.''
On stage, when at age 68 Scott rose from a sickbed to star in the 1996 Broadway revival of ``Inherit the Wind,'' one critic said
it was like watching a horse buggy powered by a Ferrari engine.
In private life, he was for years a bellicose drinker whose
profile was marked by a nose broken five times, in four barroom
brawls and one mugging. He was married five times -- twice to the
same woman, actress Colleen Dewhurst.
When Scott played in ``Plaza Suite'' in 1968, co-star Maureen Stapleton and director Mike Nichols had this reported exchange at
rehearsal:
Stapleton: ``I'm so frightened of George, I don't know what to
do.''
Nichols: ``My dear, the whole world is frightened of George.''
With his highly publicized rejection of the Academy Award more than a decade in the future, Scott mopped up nearly every prize in
sight for eye-catching performances when he hit the New York stage
in 1957 and 1958.
He had spent seven years in the sticks, playing stock and living on menial jobs, preparing for the breakthrough that came when he was 30 years old and caught the eye of Joseph Papp, impresario of
the New York Shakespeare Festival.
In rapid succession, the unknown Scott played the title role in ``Richard III'' in November 1957, Jacques in ``As You Like It'' in
January 1958 and a poisoning peer in the off-Broadway ``Children of
Darkness'' in March 1958.
For his work in all three productions he received the
off-Broadway best actor Obie and a Theatre World award as a
``promising personality.'' For the Shakespeare performances, he won
a Clarence Derwent Award as most promising actor and a Vernon Rice
Award for contribution to off-Broadway theater.
Later the same year, his Broadway debut in ``Comes a Day'' was recognized with the first of what would be four Tony Award
nominations. The others were for ``The Andersonville Trial'' in
1959, ``Uncle Vanya'' in 1974 and ``Death of a Salesman,'' which he
also directed, in 1975.
Over his career he also won a second Obie, two television Emmys out of five nominations and was nominated for Oscars four times.
The movie roles that established his fame and provided the money to continue doing theater began in 1959 with the role of a
charismatic loony who stirs up a lynch mob against Gary Cooper in
``The Hanging Tree.''
The same year, ``Anatomy of a Murder'' brought his first Academy Award nomination. He said nothing about it.
But when he was nominated again in 1962, for ``The Hustler,'' he wired the academy ``no thanks.'' The academy did not withdraw his
name, but he didn't win either.
Scott said later that he did not think he'd ever again be
nominated and regretted only that ``I wasn't able to shock the
academy into doing something constructive'' about what he viewed as
a meaningless popularity contest.
The academy ignored his withdrawal again in 1970 and gave Scott the best-actor Oscar, to go along with Golden Globe and New York Film Critics honors, for ``Patton.'' The movie, a favorite of
President Nixon, received seven Academy Awards. Scott said he spent
the evening watching hockey.
His last nomination was for ``The Hospital'' in 1971. A score of movies would follow, including ``The Savage Is Loose,'' which Scott produced, directed and starred in with his fourth wife, Trish Van Devere, in 1974. It flopped and Scott lost his shirt.
His first Emmy nomination was for a Ben Casey episode called ``I Remember a Lemon Tree'' in 1961.
The others came during the years between his two short-lived TV series, the critically acclaimed ``East Side/West Side'' in 1963-64 and a sitcom, ``Mr. President,'' in 1987-88.
He won Emmys for directing ``The Andersonville Trial'' on PBS in 1970 and acting in ``The Price'' on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in
1971. He also was a nominee for acting in Hallmark's 1976 ``Beauty
and the Beast.''
Although he commissioned ``The Last Days of Patton,'' which
aired in 1986, because he didn't think he had given the general ``a
fair shake the first time around,'' Scott maintained that
moviemaking was tedious and he did it only for the money.
``I have to work in the theater to stay sane,'' he said. ``You can attack the stage fresh every night.''
He disdained ``method'' acting and said he learned his craft
from watching movie greats.
``Cagney and Bogart taught me how to act. During the depressing periods of most actors' lives, they sleep a lot. I went to the movies,'' he once told an interviewer.
Scott was born in Wise, Va., a coal town, on Oct. 18, 1927, but grew up in Detroit. He joined the Marines in 1945, too late for
action in World War II and spent his four years in service burying
the dead at Arlington by day and boozing at night.
``You can't look at that many widows in veils and hear that many `Taps' without taking to drink,'' he said.
He left the Missouri School of Journalism in 1950 without a
degree and threw himself into acting, performing in more than 100
roles with stock companies in Toledo, Ohio; Washington and Ontario,
Canada.
During this time, his marriages to Carolyn Hughes and Patricia Reed produced two daughters, Victoria and Devon, and a son,
Matthew.
He met Dewhurst when they appeared together in ``Children of
Darkness'' and they were married in 1960, divorced in 1965,
remarried in 1967 and divorced in 1972. They had two sons,
Alexander and Campbell.
Scott also acknowledged a sixth child, born out of wedlock
during his school years. He and Van Devere married in 1972.
JOEL BECK GOES UNDERGROUND! SAN FRANCISCO CARTOONIST DEAD AT 56!
September 22: Pioneering underground cartoonist, Joel Beck, had died in
San Francisco at the age of 56.
The San Francisco Examiner described Beck as a "legendary underground
comic artist of the 1960s who chronicled the hippie era and the Vietnam War years in the UC-Berkeley humor magazine Pelican, the Berkeley Barb and in his own comic books. A frail youngster, Mr. Beck spent two years of his childhood in El Sobrante bedridden with a near-fatal combination of tuberculosis and spinal meningitis, during which time he said he drew cartoons and read Mark Twain and Walt Disney. As a teenager he began leaving his cartoons at the office of the Pelican, slipping them under the door after hours. Although he never attended college, he was voted the nation's top college cartoonist by humor magazine editors in 1965."
The EXAMINER also said, "Living in a converted closet in a rather
notorious building known as Haste House on Haste Street in Berkeley, Mr. Beck worked by night and slept most of the day. He began contributing a full page comic each week to the Berkeley Barb, the underground newspaper of the time. He also created elaborate drawings, and sometimes paintings, of a fantasy world of dinosaur-like creatures, sailing ships, fanciful castles and winged fairies. Some were made into posters. In 1965, his first full-length comic book, "Lenny of Laredo," was published. It was a satire loosely based on the career of embattled comedian Lenny Bruce. Mr. Beck's protagonist, a child named Lenny, achieves fame and fortune by uttering "obscenities" such as "pee-pee thing," only to find his career in the dumps when the public becomes satiated with his naughtiness. Two other books, "Marching Marvin" and "The Profit," followed. All are collectors items today."
The EXAMINER described Beck's career as ebbing in the 1970s, "possibly
as a result of the methamphetamines he was fond of taking during
marathon bouts of drawing. In recent years he lived in obscurity in
Point Richmond, scraping out a living with an occasional advertising
commission and being looked after by friends. He was seriously injured
in a mugging a few years ago and suffered a recurrence of tuberculosis. And he continued to drink heavily. Services will be at Point Richmond Methodist Church, corner of Martina Street and West Richmond Avenue, at 1 p.m. Thursday. Samples of his art works and comics and stories about his life are posted in the windows of the Santa Fe Market, West Richmond Avenue and Washington Street."
Here's a link to the obituary that appered in the
Wednesday, September 22, 1999 San Francisco Chronicle:
Magical Musical Tablets - Just Add What's Left Of Your Mind".
Woah!
2)
I just think Slim Gaillard was a sheer genius. I have most of his
stuff, but didn't realise until now that he put out an Yma Sumac
parody called "Soony Roony (Song Of Yxabat)". The track, credited to
"Slim Gaillard & His Peruvians" (!?) came out in 1951 and was part of
his 10" LP issue "Mish Mash" on Clef. More easily findable on
"Laughing In Rhythm", a Verve CD collection of his best works.
Guess who's playing piano on that tune: Dick Hyman.
Ciao
Gionni Paludi
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:27:02 EDT
From: JayMan282@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Mancini '67
I was glad to see one of my favorite Henry Mancini albums released on CD
finally. "Mancini '67" is a great big band type album with a slight now
sound twist. A sequel to his "Uniquely Mancini" big band album from 1963
which is an especially glaring absence from availability on CD. Do we have
any Mancini fans on this list? What do you think of the album? I enjoy it
and its wonderful knowing I can finally take it in the car. Before I had to
be satisfied with my turntable only. Now if the would only release his 1963
effort...
Jason
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:00:59 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Budget Labels
In a message dated 9/23/99 5:34:38 PM, rotohut@ic.net wrote:
>Just to mention something again that I think Br. Cleve first pointed
>out: Budget labels were mostly sold through drugstores, grocery
>stores, or whatever. The store would just deal with one distributor
>who filled the whole rack, so that's one reason why companies tried
>to create the appearance of a bunch of different labels. . .
Reminding me of a time not too long ago when many great Tico and Seeco titles
were readily available at Woolworth's stores. Its where I got turned on to
Joe Cuba and the whole Latin Soul/Bugaloo movement outta NYC
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:56:25 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Score
In a message dated 9/23/99 11:47:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
DJJimmyBee@aol.com writes:
<< Domenic who for some reason was
perusing the classifieds while at work! The ad said something to the effect
that Aku-Aku (a 50-year old polynesnian restaurant) was selling off a lot of
its old stuff for a short period of time. Domenic e-mailed his fellow Boston
exotica-enthusiasts to share the good news. >>
OK, if any one in Atlanta hears that Trader Vic's is closing i hope they let
old Tiki Bob know!!!!!
tb
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:38:57 -0400
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) The Sweetest Punch
I recall all the comments here back when Burt Bacharach/Elvis Costello's Painted From Memory was released. Has anyone heard "The Sweetest Punch"? That's the instrumental version of the CD arranged by Bill Frisell, and released on Decca? I try to pick up anything with Frisell's name on it (such as his recent Good Dog, Happy Man) but I'd still like to know what folks think of this 'un before I seek it out.
- -Lou
aka lousmith@pipeline.com
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:47:46 -0400
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Score
At 02:45 PM 9/23/99 EDT, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote:
>
>. A three and a half foot high SOLID tiki which must weigh at least 225lbs
>naked (which it is).. It
>will occupy a spot in my living room, next to my parents original 50's
>wrought iron butterfly chair. It will sit on a straw mat.
I thought of Moritz as I read this. If he wasn't going to Boston before,
I'm sure this will cinch the deal.
Nat
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:47:48 -0400
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: (exotica) what's a trautonium
I got this (barely playable) copy of the music from the old TV series "One
Step Beyond" by Harry Lubin and I could swear I hear a theremin. But it's
not included on the list of special instruments. They do however list "a
most unusual coloratura voice" and "a new electronic instrument called the
trautonium".
Maybe it's a voice I'm hearing.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:59:33 -0400
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Budget Labels
At 05:30 PM 9/23/99 -0400, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote:
>
>Yikes, this terrifies me. I would me that essentially ALL the budget
>labels were part of one giant conspiracy to palm off drecky records
>on an unsuspecting public.
Maybe this says something about my taste for dreck but when it comes to
loungey and Now Sound stuff, I think I find as much interesting stuff on
budget labels as on major labels. I kind of like the fact that you almost
have to ignore what the record appears to be. It could say "Hawaiian" and
be closer to western swing. It could say "hits of 1965" and be the
dreariest string thing. Or it could say "Electronic music to blow your
mind by" (by "The Lovemachine") and actually make a worthy attempt at
mindblowingness.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 01:47:36 -0400
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: (exotica) the cathode world
This is particularly addressed to you Frank Comstock afficionados out there
but first let's start with a quote:
"Such programs as "Peter Gunn", "The D.A's Man" and "77 Sunset Strip" have
brought cool sounds into living rooms previously shunned "music with a
beat". Here two talented arrangers fashion tube-popping examples of the
latest from the cathode world".
The record is called "The Cool Scene", subtitled "Twelve Ways to Fly" and
has the fingersnapping-est cool picture of beatniks on the front.
Anyway one of the tunes is indeed the theme to "The D.A.'s Man" performed
by Frank Comstock. And my question is "Where can I get more of this?" One
of the best "crime jazz" cuts I've ever heard.
Not that I'm likely to ever find it but is there actually a "D.A's Man"
soundtrack LP somewhere out there?
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