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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:08:33 -0400
From: dciccone@inspex.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Score
>It began with an e-mail from fellow lister Domenic who for some reason was
>perusing the classifieds while at work!
Glad to be of some help. Came back from the gym and was eating a salad in
the cafeteria. The only reading material there was the sports page and the
classifieds. I hardly ever read the paper. Esp the classifieds. Maybe the
Tiki wanted to be found by someone on the list? ;')
Anyways, La Jane's fiance had a chance to pick up the Tiki and passed up on
the chance so Jimmy has it now. He should have got it if only as a
guarantee that Jane will bear him many healthy sons!
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:42:47 -0400
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Ivan Goff, Herbert Leupin,Dr. William Eckert,Mars Probe
Ivan Goff
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Ivan Goff, co-creator of the TV series "Charlie's Angels" and co-writer of the films "White Heat," "Captain Horatio Hornblower" and "Man of a Thousand Faces," died Thursday. He was 89.
With his writing partner for 39 years, the late Ben Roberts, Goff wrote 25 feature films that starred James Cagney, Gregory Peck, Clark Gable, Doris Day, Joan Crawford and others. Among their credits: "Midnight Lace," "Shake Hands with the Devil," "Band of Angels," "Green Fire," "King of the Khyber Rifles," "Come Fill the Cup" and "Goodbye, My Fancy."
Goff and Roberts were Oscar-nominated for their screenplay of "Man of a Thousand Faces," which starred Cagney as Lon Chaney. In 1954-55, Goff served as president of the screen writers council of the Screen Writers Guild, predecessor of the Writers Guild of America.
In the 1960s, the pair turned to television, writing "The Rogues" for Dick Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer. They also produced "Mannix" (1967-75) and created "Charlie's Angels" (1976-87).
Born in Perth, Goff worked as a newspaperman in Australia, freelanced in London in the early 1930s and became Hollywood correspondent for the London Daily Mirror in 1936. He wrote a novel, "No Longer Innocent," and a play "Portrait in Black" before turning to films. He met Roberts while both served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II.
Herbert Leupin
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) Swiss graphic artist Herbert Leupin, who gained international recognition for his colorful product posters, died Tuesday. He was 82.
The creator of the purple cow that advertised Suchard's Milka chocolate, Leupin also designed posters for Coca Cola.
Leupin also exhibited in New York and in 1960 received the Art Directors Club's Medal Award.
William Eckert
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Dr. William Eckert, a forensic pathologist who was a consultant on major cases including the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Jonestown massacre, died Sept. 17. He was 73.
Eckert founded the International Organization of Forensic Medicine and the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology.
He was president of the International Association of Forensic Sciences and the National Association of Medical Examiners, wrote several books and held academic appointments at a number of universities, including Tulane Medical School.
Eckert was consulted on such famous cases as the Charles Manson murders, the John Wayne Gacy serial killings, the exhumation of Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele's body and the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
In the late 1980s, Eckert put together an investigative team that re-examined the 100-year-old Jack the Ripper prostitute murders. He also served as a consultant for the television series "Quincy."
Upon hearing that Robert Kennedy had been assassinated in his jurisdiction, former Los Angeles County Coroner Thomas Noguchi wrote in one of his books that he immediately called in Eckert because he wanted to make sure there were no mistakes.
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NASA is now saying that the Mars Probe may have been destroyed, having approached the Martian atmosphere too close, breaking up in orbit. Either that, or the Martians zapped it.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:05:22 -0400
From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <rotohut@ic.net>
Subject: (exotica) Re: what's a trautonium
Nat wrote:
>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".
Lessee. . . . Holmes' _Electronic and Experimental Music_ says,
"The Trautonium of Dr. Friedrich Trautwein was developed between 1928
and 1930 in Germany. This instrument possessed some of the features
of the ondes martenot, but used a neon-tube oscillator in place of
the capacitance-grounding principle of heterodyning found in the
theremin and ondes martenot. Tones were produced by adjusting the
resistance of the tube via a finger ribbon [. . . .] The instrument
was surprisingly long-lived, and variations of it were in continuous
use in media applications until the late 1960s."
Because this "finger ribbon" thingie let the player slide
continuously between pitches, the sound would probably have an
oooo-eeee quality similar to the theremin. (In fact, isn't the story
that the Beach Boys actually used one of these slide controllers on
"Good Vibrations," because it was too hard to stay on pitch with a
normal hand-waving theremin?)
oscillatingly,
--Ross
|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr <rotohut@ic.net>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:31:39 -0400
From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <rotohut@ic.net>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Budget Labels
Nat wrote:
>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.
Budget labels give me this intense mixture of irritation and
fascination. I mean, they just were so shameless. I really get the
sense that they would just steal some foreign LP, or some low-fi
radio transcription, then slap their own artist and song names onto
it. I noticed recently that even the text of the "audiophile" blurb
on Synthetic Plastics disks was totally ripped off from Omega!
But then every once in a while you get an original recording which is
really good, and you just have to wonder "who IS this really, and how
did the budget label end up with these sessions?" In a few cases I
can trace it back to an earlier record where the artists did get
credited. But the mystery of it all can be really intriguing.
In the Now Sound era, I wonder if those labels were getting more
original sessions where struggling musicians just signed away all
their rights. . .
--Ross
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|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:25:43 -0400
From: <laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Score
>It began with an e-mail from fellow lister Domenic who for some reason was
>perusing the classifieds while at work!
>Anyways, La Jane's fiance had a chance to pick up the Tiki and passed up
on
the chance so Jimmy has it now. He should have got it if only as a
guarantee that Jane will bear him many healthy sons!
HRMPH! I ain't bearing nobody nothin! Sorry,pal, gotta watch my girlish
