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exotica-digest      Wednesday, February 23 2000      Volume 02 : Number 635



In This Digest:

(exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion
(exotica) Re: Take it off....
(exotica) Snake Handling Music
Re: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion
(exotica) Otto Klemperer
Re: (exotica) Snake handling music
(exotica) Air
Re:  Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery
Re:  (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters
Re:  (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion
Re: (exotica) Air
Re: (exotica) Snake Handling Music
Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off....
(exotica) Fidelity inTime
Re:  (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters
Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off....
(exotica) Senor Coconut
Re: (exotica) Senor Coconut
(exotica) infinity album covers
(exotica) leaving list
Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery
Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative Percussion
(exotica) Valvola
(exotica) Ilsa, Victor Mature & the East-West Shrine Game
Re: (exotica) Valvola
(exotica) scotland connection
(exotica) [obits]Husam el-Din Mustafa,Barney Childs,Newt Arnold
(exotica) Pair of "Wild Parties"

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:07:47 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion

>5. Anyone heard of "Exotica 1970"?
There's a record by that name by the Kokee band, on Solid State.
I like em though I like their other record "Hawaii and other exotic themes"
better.

Nice to know they made another one.  I have "Exotica 1970" but it's not a
knockout.
This was produced by Sonny Lester. The guy who did the record "How to Strip
for your Husband".

Domenic




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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:31:59 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Take it off....

<<"How to Strip
for your Husband".>>

Speaking of that album, anyone have "How to Belly Dance for Your Husband?" =
 Didn't feel like paying the whopping dollar each for vinyl on that =
particular day.=20

Also had one called "Now Sound of Hawaii" or something like that.

Comments on either?

- - Nate





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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:29:10 -0500
From: Peter Gingerich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Snake Handling Music

I contacted my friend who is knowledgeable (g0d what an ugly word) in these
christian matters for some info.
 Meanwhile I've got 'snake charmer music' from India from one of those old
labels like Monitor or Everest (you know, the cool cover and absolutely no
liner notes), on tape. Loud reed and percussion, and it roques. Let me know
if interested.

(There is also a video on snake handlers, from Shanachie I think, seen it at
the library. More interest in the subject lately as a handler recently died
from being bitten...)

pg

>>>Okay, here's another "surprise genre" that I couldn't believe actually
exists.

Evidently, those wacky serpent worshipers from the deep south have a very
unique blend of "Christian rock-a-billy" with synth organ, tamborine and the
like that are part of the church service.

And this stuff is now available.....anybody know what the hell I'm talking
about - or was it another one of my weird dreams??? :-0

- - Nate





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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:39:21 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion

At 10:07 AM 2/22/00 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Nice to know they made another one.  I have "Exotica 1970" but it's not a
>knockout.
>This was produced by Sonny Lester. The guy who did the record "How to Strip
>for your Husband".

Sonny did a lot more than that.  He produced tons of stuff on Solid State.
And   his "After Hours" series is pretty good. But the "AH" installment
called "Middle East", is in my opinion one of the great "surfin exotica"
records ever made.
In fact, it's the only record that got used twice for my exotica-ring tape.




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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:45:34 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Otto Klemperer

In a message dated 2/21/00 8:50:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I also wonder if a Hogan's Heroes completist would have to collect records
 with orchestras conducted by Otto Klemperer. >>

there was some guy on the list about 3 or 4 years ago who met Klemperer in
NYC on a street corner (or out side of Klemperer's building).

does anybody remember this?

tb


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:49:16 +0000
From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Snake handling music

Nathan Miner wrote:
>
> Okay, here's another "surprise genre" that I couldn't believe actually exists.
>
> Evidently, those wacky serpent worshipers from the deep south have a very unique blend of "Christian rock-a-billy" with synth organ, tamborine and the like that are part of the church service.

Isn't there a snake/church band scene in the film Vanishing Point? Is
this the 'serpent worshipping' you mean?

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 00 16:54:29 +0100
From: Bissia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Air

Can someone send me a jpeg or an url displaying the very first Air
12'inch ?
I'm not sure i have that one (but it could be)
I have Casanova 70 (blue swiming pool sleeve if i remember well)
but i never seen one with an autobhan on it =B0-)

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:18:51 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery

In a message dated 2/22/0 5:02:57 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

> Micheal Bolton is back in the news,
>trying to wrestle the royalties away from the Isley Brothers.

My wife grew up in New Haven CT with that sack of shit and she says he was a
pompous egotist from the git-go and she isn't the type to be
judgemental...His real name is Bloton.


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:22:00 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters

In a message dated 2/22/0 7:09:35 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

> I'm pretty positive this prostrates the
>poll of perdurable percussion platters.

Will pandemonium persist if we parse this potpourri while placating pondering
pedantics yet pander to previous percussive com-Pleatists?


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:24:14 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion

In a message dated 2/22/0 10:17:47 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>This was produced by Sonny Lester.

You can read all about how little is actually known about Sonny Lester in
Eddie Gorodetsky's  liner notes in Rhino's "Strip Classics"


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:22:17 +0000
From: <Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Air

Its a golden brown colour,  and it has AIR in stylized 3D letters in th=
e
centre. The brown background is a sun drenched road/motorway. JPEG? Dre=
am
on.

>>Can someone send me a jpeg or an url displaying the very first Air
12'inch ?
I'm not sure i have that one (but it could be)
I have Casanova 70 (blue swiming pool sleeve if i remember well)
but i never seen one with an autobhan on it =B0-)


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:46:57 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Snake Handling Music

[e-mail] wrote:
> (There is also a video on snake handlers, from Shanachie I think, seen it at
the library. More interest in the subject lately as a handler recently died
from being bitten...)
pg
======
That would be:
Beats of the Heart - Chase the Devil: Religious Music of the Appalachians
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301686802/qid=951237367/sr=1-1/102-4567288-4449635

"Beats of the Heart"  is a fab series of world music docs.
There's also a great OOP book, which expands on the docs, by the
director of the series:
Beats of the Heart : Popular Music of the World by Jeremy Marre

http://pfo.org/succumbs.htm

- -Lou




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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:11:54 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off....

At 10:31 AM 2/22/00 -0500, Nathan Miner wrote:
>
><<"How to Strip
>for your Husband".>>
>
>Speaking of that album, anyone have "How to Belly Dance for Your Husband?"
 Didn't feel like paying the whopping dollar each for vinyl on that
particular day.

Is this a Sonny Lester record?  Sonny had an interesting take on "middle
eastern" music, as evidenced on the "After Hours: Middle East" record that
I already referred to once today.  In the same vein, I have another good
record by him with the same sound and even some of the same tunes called
"The Belly Dancer".  That day Sonny and the boys called themselves "Abdul
Alexi Freeman and his Enquirers" (or something like that).
So if it's Sonny and it's belly dancing, I'd go for it.
Then again, the strip record is pretty mediocre and doesn't have that
middle eastern sound at all.
But for a buck...

Nat




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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:57:53 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fidelity inTime

Does anybody know?

After getting reel-to-reel copy of Persuasive Percussion I thought of
something.   What were the political and or technical issues behind =
rock
bands in the late 60s and early 70s that made the record companies =
release
the recordings with such low-fidelity?

My vintage 1959 recordings by Enoch Light have more dynamic range and a
wider spectrum of sound than very many of the records and CD reissues I =
have
of some rock music from the late 60s and early 70s, like Spirit--"I got =
a
line on you" and Jimi Hendrix--"Manic Depression" and most Iron =
Butterfly
records and the list goes on and on.=20

I know that the good equipment was around, alebit a bit pricey.  Some =
bands,
like the Doors, had access to good stuff. =20

Certainly by the end of the 60s, the rock influence had become =
significant
enough in the industry to afford the high quality recording and =
duplicating
equipment afforded to the "biggies" 10 years previous.  Why is it that =
SO
many of our "classic" rock records have poorer sound than some =
mid-fifties
jazz/lounge/exotica? =20

Anybody byte?

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:16:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters

not sure if this is within the strict parameters, but
a fun percussion lp is The Rene Paulo Group's Tropical
Heat on Life records. Great stereo sound, bongos, bass
and piano (and great cover too: nude woman obscured
through the net-mesh of the hammock in which she is
sprawled, languorous and glowing...). This lp kicks
the crap out of Black Coral, which I assume is a later
effort, on the Liberty label (nice cover art there as
well). I have included a sample on the tape I have
sent some.


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:07:03 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off....

>Speaking of that album, anyone have "How to Belly Dance for Your Husband?"

I like the Belly Dance one a lot more. More ethnic/exotica.The other one
is, well, as the name suggests, too burlesque.

BTW, Sonny Lester's name came out on a CD called "How to Strip for your
Lover" unless you like smooth jazz stay away from it. Sonny, or whoever he
is, came out of retirement in Florida to make this.

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:31:50 +0100
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Senor Coconut

Anyone heard this?


- -------------

SENOR COCONUT German Dance (Kraftwerk Covers) CD (AMCT japan).
Japanese only release by Senor Coconut (aka Atom Heart), whose previous
album was on Rather Interesting; file under simulation. Tracks include
"Neonlights (chachacha)", "Trans Europe Express (cumbia)", "Tour De
France (merengue)", "Man Machine (baklan a la prado)", "Radioactivity
(rhumba)", "Autobahn (drum 'n' cumbia)", "Numbers (mambo)", "Sex Object
(salsa)", "The Robots (salsa)", "Pocket Calculator (merengue)", "Showroom
Dummies (chachacha)", "Music Non Stop (cumbia)". "When Kraftwerk came
out of cryogenic storage in the late90s to play a few shows, I wasn't one of
the privileged who actually got to see them, but I did read a number of
reviews of these concerts, and I swear that in at least three of them the
reviewer said that people in the crowd were crying when the group hit the
stage, tears of joy, and oddly enough that doesn't surprise me at all. If
that
doesn't surprise you either, then this CD might be for you. While it looks
like
we might have to wait another decade for an actual brand new Kraftwerk
album, Atom Heart (Rather Interesting records, aka Lisa Carbon aka
Lassigue Bendthaus aka LB) tops last years Pop Artificelle record by a
long shot, an entire record of Kraftwerk tunes seamlessly reconfigured as
cha chas, meringues, rumbas, etc. Their songs actually lend themselves
quite well to this treatment, and unlike records by dozens of artists out
there these days who crank out shamelessly inferior Ralf and Florian-styled
product, you'll probably find yourself playing this a lot more than once, at
least to see your friends jaws drop when they hear "Radioactivity" done with
trumpets and marimbas..." -- Billy Kiely."The tingle of torrid
trumpets...the
simmering of sensuous saxes...the clicks of the claves and the magic of the
maracas...and underneath it all the buoyant beatings of the drums and the
tom toms. Here is great sound and great music - A tribute to all great
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:39:36 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Senor Coconut

Arjan Plug <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Anyone heard this?
SENOR COCONUT German Dance (Kraftwerk Covers) CD (AMCT japan).
Japanese only release by Senor Coconut (aka Atom Heart).
==========
I haven't heard it, but I did search amazon.com for it after reading
your post.
Strangely, it's listed twice under slightly different titles and with
two different prices! Go figure!!
Imports:
Baile Aleman (Kraftwerk Covers) [IMPORT]
Senor Coconut / Audio CD / Released 2000
Our Price: $34.49


Eel Baile Aleman (Kraftwerk Co [IMPORT] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
Senor Coconut / Audio CD
Our Price: $31.49



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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:15:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Kingsley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) infinity album covers

I was in a record store this past weekend and the
clerk was showing me some albums he had just received.
 One of the ones he pulled out - I forget who it was
by - had a cover image of a woman holding an album
jacket that had the same image on it, which in turn
had the same image on it (I hope that description
makes sense).  I've seen a few of them (an example
being "Music to Recline By") but I've never really
paid them much attention.  The guy called it an
infinity cover and said that people collect comic
books that have these types of covers and I was
curious if anyone on the list collects records with
covers like these.  Were they very common?

regards,

mark
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:49:01 CST
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Subject: (exotica) leaving list

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:02:15 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery


>in scotland we have freemasons and it just looks like a
>drinking club to me (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

Ah, Scottish Freemasons, I was wondering when they were going
to turn up.

A while ago I read a tiny item about the sale at auction of the
"Benison Bowl", used by Beggars' Benison of Anstruther, a secret
society founded in the 18th century in Scotland, it involved
a group of well-to-do men (possibly royalty too) drinking and
undergoing rituals including measuring their penises in the
"Benison Bowl", I would imagine that some form of wanking went
on as well ("an auto-erotic secret society"). Some woman did
research on this and when she went to look at old papers on the
subject, the curators either professed total ignorance or seemed
embarrassed that anyone else knew about it.
I am intrigued, especially as it's one of the few things I've
tried to research that I haven't been able to get any information
on through the internet, not even Lou was able to find more than
a few practically meaningless passages (except for a possibly
revealing book at a London antiquariat, that is in the proces of
being ordered by a London friend), which leads me to think that
there isn't anything to be found on the net. That's to say, if
on this improbable list we don't have an expert for those jolly
beggars as well...

Cheers, Ton


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:29:03 -0800
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative Percussion

Aaah...I've long been interested in this:

> >There were 5 Persuasives and 4 Provocatives on Command:
> >RS 800 SD  Persuasive
> >RS 806 SD  Provocative
> >RS 808 SD  Persuasive Vol 1
> >RS 810 SD  Provocative Vol 1
> >RS 817 SD  Persuasive Vol 3
> >RS 821 SD  Provocative Vo1 3
> >RS 830 SD  Persuasive Vol 4
> >RS 834 SD  Provocative Vol 4
> >RS 895 SD  Persuasive 1966
> >There was also a "Passionate Percussion" on Directional Sound, two volumes
> >of "Perspectives in Percussion" on Somerset, arranged by Skip Martin, and
> a
> >"Predominant Percussion" on Crown.
>
> Not to mention
>
> "Potent Percussion"  Don Catelli Directional Sound DS-5010
> "Polynesian Percussion"  Chango and the Polynesians  Directional Sound
> DS-????
> "Persistant Percussion"  Maxwell Davis  Kent KST-500   (same as Crown?)
>
> and, if you would allow:
>
> "Pertinent Percussion Cha Chas"  Enoch Light  Command RS 814 SD

And don't forget:

Pervasive Percussion (Omega)
Pervasive Percussion (Sutton) hmmm..need to see if these are same music
Process 35 Percussion (Spin-O-Rama)
Progressive Percussion (Modern)
The Pinnacle of Percussion (Pirouette)

and winner of best "P" alliteration in my collection:

Passionate Paris in Ping Pong Percussion (Coronet)

Somebody needs to document this with cover scans on a website.

- -- Brad




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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:33:48 -0800
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Valvola

Curious about other peoples' reactions to the Valvola CD, "Teenagers
Film Their Own Life."

They're from Florence, play vintage synthesizers, use lots of reverb,
sound to me like "Autobahn"-era Kraftwerk meets The Doors meets Low,
with some cinematic qualities to the sound.  Funky detached ennui.

Kinda low key, but I'm liking it.

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:16:12 -0800
From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ilsa, Victor Mature & the East-West Shrine Game

The category is potpourri, Alex, for $10.
1. Mondo Digital lists 3 Ilsa movies due on DVD in may. I'll slo-mo and
look for Schultz. Shows 10th Victim also due in May, and Candy listed
with no release date.
2. Victor Mature never takes his fez off during von Sternberg's "The
Shanghai Gesture," which takes place in Mother Gin Sling's Casino in
Shanghai, a MUCH more exotic joint than the Blue Gardenia recently
mentioned. Tagline: 'People Live in Shanghai for Many Reasons... Most of
Them Bad!"  And 3AM sat night out of the blue again came Mr. Mature in
1953's "The Veils of Baghdad" on one of those obscure digital cable
channels. He rassled Jim Arness and romanced B-movie beauty Mari
Blanchard, who did TWO great exotic dance numbers, music credited to
Henry Mancini & Herman Stein!!! Good mindless exotic fun, now if i could
only find my tape of that mummy movie Les Baxter scored.
3. Sometime in the late 70's I went to the annual East-West Shrine
football game at Stanford. The fezzes and tassels and crescent moons
were out in force on the thousands of Shriners, and it was very strange.
However, at halftime we all enjoyed the Kilgore Rangerettes, about 200
lovely Texas junior college girls in white boots and hot pants doing
precision drillwork and high kicks. Yow! Kinda like Brazilian tv star
Xuxa's majorette assistants, if you ever caught her "kids" show on the
spanish channel. aaaa ohhh aaaaa ohhhhh aaaaa ohhhh!

The Remote Control Maniac


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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:24:23 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Valvola

I liked this CD.  (some mildly shameless self-promotion here) I actually
reviewed it in "Cool & Strange Music" #14 - I described it as
"electronica-influenced psychedelic lounge ballads".  It's very much in
line with the other new "now" sound stuff coming out of Italy.

"(One Love) Le Blues Ermetique" can also be found on Irma's "Ultradolce"
compilation.

Recommended.

cheryl

"B. Yost" wrote:
>
> Curious about other peoples' reactions to the Valvola CD, "Teenagers
> Film Their Own Life."
>
> They're from Florence, play vintage synthesizers, use lots of reverb,
> sound to me like "Autobahn"-era Kraftwerk meets The Doors meets Low,
> with some cinematic qualities to the sound.  Funky detached ennui.
>
> Kinda low key, but I'm liking it.


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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:04:00 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) scotland connection

Is this off topic??

Scotland connection: The Masons or a related group were created or surfaced
in the
court of Robert the Bruce as a nucleus of politcal opposition against the
British Crown.  As he was King of the Scots in the early 13th century
(1316-1329 I think) the bowl must have been very old and grungy by the time
the 18th century rolled around.


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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:31:01 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Husam el-Din Mustafa,Barney Childs,Newt Arnold

                        *Husam el-Din Mustafa
    CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Husam el-Din Mustafa, an American-trained
film director who created about 100 films and dozens of popular
Egyptian soap operas, died Tuesday. He was 64.
    Mustafa died in his Cairo home from a stroke, according to the
Middle East News Agency.
    He began his career as an assistant to American director Cecil
B. De Mille. Mustafa graduated from the University of Southern
California in 1951 before assisting De Mille in the film ``The
Greatest Show on Earth.''
    On his return to Egypt in 1956, he directed his first film,
``Enough, My Eyes,'' a tragedy that introduced him as a serious
director and producer.
    Among his prize-winning movies are ``The Bullet Still in My
Pocket,'' about the 1973 Arab Israeli War, along with ``Enemy
Brothers'' and ``The Devils.''
    ``By himself, he was a school in the movie art who advanced
Egyptian cinema,'' said actress Nadia Lutfi, who starred his 1963
film, ``The Black Glasses.''
    Mustafa earned the wrath of many pan-Arabists when he visited
Israel several times after the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace accord. He
urged fellow artists to visit as well, a a move he said would
encourage peace between Arabs and their Jewish neighbors.
    His soap operas were mostly historical, dealing with events in
the early centuries of Islam. Hid better-known soap operas
included: ``The Knights,'' ``The Heroes,'' ``Ibn Hazm'' and ``The
Age of The Imams.''
    Mustafa had been working on a popular television series, ``The
Eagle of the East,'' about the Muslim military leader Saladin, who
drove back crusaders from the holy land in Palestine in the 12th
century.
    A funeral was held Tuesday in Cairo. Mustafa is survived by his
wife, Nadia, and a daughter, Jihan.
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser
NYTimes obit at:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-f-hundertwasser.html
============
February 22, 2000
Barney Childs, 73, a Composer Interested in the Experimental
By PAUL GRIFFITHS - NY Times

Barney Childs, a composer and teacher, died on Jan. 11 at his home in
Redlands, Calif. He was 73.

The cause was Parkinson's disease, said his friend and colleague, Phillip
Rehfeldt.

Born in Spokane, Wash., Mr. Childs grew up there and in Palo Alto, Calif. He
studied at the University of Nevada and at Oxford and Stanford Universities,
taking courses in English as well as music. Later he taught in both fields.
In composition, though, he was self-taught until he was in his late 20's
when he studied with Aaron Copland and Carlos Chßvez at Tanglewood and
Elliott Carter in New York. By the late 1950's his music was gaining
national recognition.

Meanwhile he had begun teaching at the University of Arizona, where he
worked from 1956 to 1965. He became the dean of Deep Springs College in
California, and composer in residence at the Wisconsin College Conservatory
before taking a post at Redlands University in California. In 1989 he was a
visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College at the University of London.

His musical enthusiasms were broad, and they all left a mark on his
compositions, which embraced the mainstream masters of his early years, like
Hindemith, along with Ives, Cage and jazz. Cage's influence was a particular
liberation, leading Mr. Childs to engage the performer in more or less free
music making. Among Mr. Childs's many works are two symphonies, concertos
for clarinet and timpani, quintets for wind and brass, string quartets and
other chamber pieces.

He wrote numerous articles and was a co-editor, with the composer Elliott
Schwartz, of one of the central sourcebooks for music of the late 20th
century, "Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music." Between 1964 and
1982 he also ran Advance Recordings, which provided an outlet to
experimental composers like Richard Maxfield, Harold Budd and Robert Ashley.

He is survived by two daughters, Dirje Smith of Flint, Tex., and Margaret
Childs of Las Vegas.
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Roger Vadim's last production: Five wives and a funeral

SAINT-TROPEZ, France, Feb 18 (AFP) - Roger Vadim's five wives joined a
300-strong congregation of friends, children and lovers in a cemetery
overlooking the mediterranean at the French film-director's funeral Friday.
Vadim's widow Marie-Christine Barrault was met at a church service in
Saint-Tropez by his former wives Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Catherine
Schneider and Anette Stroyberg.
========
Tuesday, February 22, 2000
Newt Arnold; Award-Winning Filmmaker
By MYRNA OLIVER, L. A. Times Staff Writer

     Newt Arnold, director and winner of the Directors Guild of America
award for his work as first assistant director of the motion picture "The
Godfather Part II," has died of leukemia.

     Arnold, who would have been 73 today, died Feb. 12 at his home in
Encino, said his wife, Judy.

     The filmmaker's career spanned 45 years and ranged from acting in the
1983 film "Table for Five" among others, to writing for television's
"Bonanza" and other productions to directing motion pictures, television
movies, miniseries and commercials.

     He won another DGA award nomination for his work in "Twelve Angry Men"
for television in 1997 and critical acclaim for his directing efforts on
"Masada" and the miniseries "Peter the Great."

     A director in his own right for such films as "Bloodsport," Arnold was
perhaps even more sought after as a first assistant director, working with
such legendary Hollywood helmsmen as Francis Ford Coppola, Blake Edwards,
Sam Peckinpah, Carl Reiner and Steven Spielberg.

     Among Arnold's credits as first assistant over the past decade were the
motion pictures "A Simple Plan," "Jade," "A Walk in the Clouds," "Blue
Chips" and "The Abyss."

     In earlier years, he was an assistant director on such films as "The
Ballad of Josie," "The Way West," "The Devil's Brigade" and "The Green
Berets" directed by and starring John Wayne.

     Born in Palo Alto, Calif., Arnold earned a bachelor's degree at
Stanford and won postgraduate scholarships to the Banff School of Fine Arts
in Canada and the University of London. He earned a master's degree at UCLA,
producing a thesis that proved a toehold into the film industry.

     Arnold was active in directors, writers and screen actors guilds and
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

     In addition to his wife, Arnold is survived by their sons, Jonathan and
Evan.




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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:32:47 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Pair of "Wild Parties"

    NEW YORK (AP) -- New York theatergoers are going to be seeing
double with ``The Wild Party.''
    Two musicals with the same title and based on the same Jazz Age
poem are opening within weeks of each other -- one off-Broadway, the
other on.
    ``There has never been anything like this,'' says Ken
Mandelbaum, musical theater historian, author and critic. ``But is
it a good idea to do both at the same time? It is difficult to
imagine them both being successful. After all, they are about the
same thing.''
    Both are based on a 1920s poem by Joseph Moncure March, a
one-time editor at The New Yorker and screenwriter. It captures the
hedonism and cynicism of a gilded age, a hard-boiled world of show
biz, speakeasies and indiscriminate sex.
    The first ``Wild Party'' arrives Thursday at off-Broadway's
Manhattan Theater, a nonprofit theater where such plays as ``Crimes
of the Heart'' and ``Love! Valour! Compassion!'' were first done in
New York. It has book, music and lyrics by newcomer Andrew Lippa,
who contributed a few new songs to last season's revival of
``You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.''
    The second, with a score by Michael John LaChiusa, opens April
13 at Broadway's Virginia Theater, produced by the Public Theater
and Hollywood movie mogul Scott Rudin.
    Musicals based on the same material are not unknown. Andrew
Lloyd Webber wrote ``The Phantom of the Opera,'' but Maury Yeston
has a version of ``Phantom,'' too, and it has had a successful life
- -- though outside New York.
    Yeston also wrote a musical version of ``La Cage aux folles''
called ``The Queen of Basin Street.'' It never was produced, but
Jerry Herman's version was.
    And in the late 1960s, two musicals based on ``Twelfth Night''
arrived off-Broadway. One, ``Your Own Thing,'' was a hit; the
other, ``Love and Let Love'' died in two weeks.
    The Broadway production of ``The Wild Party'' has an edge in
terms of star power. Its cast includes Eartha Kitt, Mandy Patinkin
and Toni Collette, who just got a supporting-actress Oscar
nomination for the movie ``The Sixth Sense.''
    (There was also a 1975 movie called ``The Wild Party,'' starring
Raquel Welch and James Coco, that was based loosely on the scandal
that ruined the career of silent film comic Fatty Arbuckle. Neither
the poem nor the two stage productions deal with the Arbuckle
scandal.)
    Neither ``Wild Party'' will talk specifically about the other --
at least on the record.
    Public Theater artistic director George C. Wolfe, who is
director and co-author of the Broadway version, says diplomatically
about the competition, ``As a producer I am aware of it, but as a
creative artist I can only think about my show. My job as a
director is to focus completely on what happens in my rehearsal
room.''
    Lippa, composer of the other one, agrees. ``Our commitment was
just to our show and doing it on the timeline that the musical
demanded. Our show was ready to be produced and we had incredible
support from Manhattan Theater Club and we felt confident in going
forward,'' he says. ``Frankly, we didn't take into account the
other folks.''
    Both musicals began life unaware of the other. The Public
Theater has had a long relationship with composer LaChiusa, and
their project came about as a commission from the Public, Wolfe
says.
    Lippa started work on his version more than four years ago after
he came across a copy of the poem in a New York bookstore. ``In
those days, I didn't write lyrics. I was in the poetry section,
thinking I would find a poem that I could set to music,'' he
recalls. Lippa opened the book and read the first two lines,
``Queenie was a blonde, and her age stood still, and she danced
twice a day in vaudeville.'' He knew he had an idea for a musical.
    ``This show was going to be my `Cats.' I was going to set the
poem to music,'' Lippa recalls. ``But I realized quickly that there
was very little in the first person. So I started to write lyrics.
It was the middle of the winter, I was out of work and I thought,
`I can mope around the house or I can write a musical.'''
    Manhattan Theater Club held a reading of Lippa's first act in
August 1996 and the following summer a two-act version was done at
the Eugene O'Neill Center in Connecticut, where director Gabriel
Barre came aboard. He is directing the show at Manhattan Theater
Club.
    Now both shows have to wait for the reviews.
    Is a Broadway transfer possible for the Manhattan Theater Club
version if the notices on Friday are good? No one is saying.
    ``We are investigating the usual options after the Manhattan
Theater Club run -- if it is warranted,'' says Barry Grove, the
theater's executive producer. Its ``Wild Party'' is scheduled to
run through April 2.




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