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exotica-digest         Thursday, March 2 2000         Volume 02 : Number 639



In This Digest:

RE: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten
Re: (exotica) Re: Dr Livingston, I presume?
(exotica) RPM
Re:  Re:  (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten
(exotica) personal AND public apology
(exotica) Family Portrait
Re: (exotica) Family Portrait
Re: (exotica) Family Portrait
(exotica) ExotiKid=?ISO-8859-1?B?gQ==?=
Re:  (exotica) Re: Here's Br. Cleve's "list"
(exotica) new Tiki News
(exotica) Re:  Exotica Kindergarten
Re: (exotica) ExotiKidü
(exotica) Carol Channing
(exotica) New additions and updates to site
Re: (exotica) Carol Channing
Re: (exotica) Carol Channing
(exotica) Portugese
Re: (exotica) Soundproof vs. Soundblast
(exotica) U.S./English vers. of "Chega de Saudade" book
(exotica) Recent finds / questions
(exotica) Tradelist up n running....
(exotica) VAT for Net music?
(exotica) [OBITS] Mary Bodne,Dennis Danell, Baron Enrico di Portanova,George Duning,Louis Pelletier,Otello Martelli,

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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:41:05 -0800
From: Erik Hoel <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten

Hmmm.

I too am conducting a cruel experiment of this sort with my 4 and 5 year
old. In addition to exotica, they are more comfortable with LPs than CDs.

One question - are Louis Prima/Keeley Smith/Sam Butera considered exotica?
Maybe I'm really doing the Lounge Kindergarten ...

Erik
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:44:49 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Dr Livingston, I presume?

> >A friend is searching for a record he vaguely remembers from
> >his youth. It was a novelty 45, probably titled "Dr. Livingston
> >I Presume?"


On the completely opposite end of the spectrum, the Moody Blues also
recorded a song called "Dr. Livingston, I Presume"

Stanley




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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:29:49 -0800
From: "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RPM

exotica-digest wrote:

>The next obvious question is whether the audio properties of an LP are
>superior for the first track where you get effectively more grove distance
>per unit of time (given the fixed rotational speed)?

Center grooves are usually lower quality than outer grooves, but not
for the reason you cite. Most turntables put more pressure on the
outer edge of the grooves at the center because of the increased angle
of the tone arm. Anti skate mechanisms are designed to apply more
resistence as the arm swings inward to compensate for this.

See ya
Steve

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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:23:48 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  Re:  (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten

The correct URL is http://www3.shore.net/~magnus/




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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:07:47 -0500
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) personal AND public apology

Hi, Gianni,

Your package was mailed today via parcel air mail, estimated receipt 4-7
days. For everyone else, he sent me a trade tape 11 MONTHS ago and it
took me this long to pull it together.

Sorry. There are 5 CDs in the package, so i hope that helps some...

If anyone else is owed a package by me, please let me know. things are a
bit better here!

thanks for letting me confess,

ck

And, as Chuck points out, my 5 almost 6 year old daughter is totally
immersed. Can handle vinyl by the edge, shellac with care, operates the
turntable and the cd deck, and can identify themes when heard
independent of the source... also said last week that willy nelson
inhales/breathes differently when he sings than john lennon. duh...

ck


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:16:46 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Family Portrait

I know this is obnoxious and off topic, but since I just found out that this
exists yesterday and the "do you have kids" thread started today, my family's
cool and strange portrait can be found (finally!) for those that  give a
rat's ass at        http://www3shore.net/~magnus/   then click on
"portraits".....

        Thanks Brian and Chuck and sorry to bother anyone not interested

JB


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:52:40 -0500
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Family Portrait

OK,

here's Sarah about 8 months ago:

http://www.megasaver.com/pix/sarah867.jpg

.... have to take some pictures with discs!

ck


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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:38:52 -0800
From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Family Portrait

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I know this is obnoxious and off topic, but since I just found out that this
> exists yesterday and the "do you have kids" thread started today, my family's
> cool and strange portrait can be found (finally!) for those that  give a
> rat's ass at        http://www3shore.net/~magnus/   then click on
> "portraits".....

Actually, that would be http://www3.shore.net/~magnus/   (ah, the
difference a dot makes)

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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:00:29 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ExotiKid=?ISO-8859-1?B?gQ==?=

My Mira, just over two, rocks righteously to all my wacky stuff, but only
when my wife is at work (she hates my music...why are we together, you ask?
I wonder myself at times).  Mira's fave picks to dance to:  Speedy West &
Jimmy Bryant's Stratosphere Boogie (sends her into a wiggling froth), Mr.
Bach meets Batman played on the EXPLORER III organ, any Sonny Terry &
Brownie McGhee.  Kid knows her shit.

Anyone loving this thread and lapping up the pix can go here to see her in
the pink:

http:www.lobue-art.com/Mirahome.html

Trying to keep a Wiggles-free household (Aussie equiv to Barney).

Keith

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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:06:53 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Re: Here's Br. Cleve's "list"

In a message dated 2/28/0 2:03:51 PM, you wrote:

<<After being swamped with requests for this information, I'll post all
that I have on the subject it to the list.>>

Thanks for the repost.  Now all I need is a lot of cash.........Bob


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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:10:44 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new Tiki News

I am working on a new issue of Tiki News

if you'd like to advertise please contact me immediately

Otto

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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 06:59:37
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Exotica Kindergarten

I will chime in on this stream:  we have 7 year-old twin boys, Sam and Ben,
and a 3 year-old girl, Alice.  The boys have already been peer-group
programmed and can't stand Dad's taste in music--it's Back Street Boys and
N'Sync for them, with an occasional dip into a disco sampler.  Alice likes
everything, sings almost everything.  Right now her favorite to sing is
"The Brady Bunch Theme."

Brad (AKA "Mr. Record Brain" by the boys)


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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:50:52 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ExotiKidü

http://www.lobue-art.com/Mirahome.html

Nice pictures Keith and she looks just like you.  Watch out though for spouses that
hate your music.  Its best to get them to like it before its too late or at least
get yourself a private listening area.  In my last house I had a private room for
listening.  I had 2 Klipsch Cornwall speakers mounted near the cealing.

Also your site is at the address above.

Easy listening in the Big easy
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:53:10 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Carol Channing

What ever happened to Carol Channing?  I have only one record of here =
and
have never seen any others.

Pardon the Hollywood Squares flashbacks.

visit=20
THE BRIMSTONES Eternal Surf and Garage Damnation=20
at http://www.brimstones.com
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surfing the chaos,
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 00 11:50:15 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New additions and updates to site

Updates and new additions as of 2/18:

- --A&M import LP (German) back cover difference pictured for "When It Was
Done"--Page 4.

- --3 More Isaura Garcia Odeon Brasil LPs which WW plays on pictured and
listed on Page 1.  Also "Documento Inedito" LP cover image containing
Isaura interview (of how she met Walter) added to Page 6.

- --Brazilian release of WW's "The Return of the Original" LP found and
listed--Page 4

- --Confirmation from Brazil that Walter Wanderley is not the "Wanderley"
[single name] pianist on The Milton Banana Trio LPs of the early to
mid-1960s.  Subsequent removal of all Milton Banana Trio images formerly
on the WW site, along with text that credited Walter Wanderley for
playing on these LPs.

- --New "Who Is Walter Menderley???" section on Page 3 added after a CD
with a different title but containing the same track list as WW's
"Brazil's Greatest Hits" was found in the U.S. but made in Mexico!  Could
this be one of WW's many Mexican imitators or just a bootleg?  The new
addition gives the definitive answer!

- --Mirror WW Site added to Xoom.com URL due to the frequent downtime of
Freeservers.  The site now exists in both locations in its entirety.

Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:08:25 -0500
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Carol Channing

what a freak of nature she is/was?
she scares me and i love her for it.
i find her frighteningly appealing in the film SKIDOO, a pro LSD movie with
Jackie Gleason, Carol, John Philip Law and GROUCHO MARX (his last film)
among many others.
it is the only record i own with her on it, singing the title track.
the only good "bad" song on it.

bump out



>What ever happened to Carol Channing?  I have only one record of here and
>have never seen any others.
>
>Pardon the Hollywood Squares flashbacks.

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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:23:38 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Carol Channing

"Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" wrote:
>
> What ever happened to Carol Channing?  I have only one record of here and
> have never seen any others.
>
> Pardon the Hollywood Squares flashbacks.

I can't answer that, recording-wise, but there is an
interview with her (conducted by Dame Darcy) in the
current issue of _Index_.  It's pretty amusing -
DD keeps asking her about "Skidoo", saying that it's
popular with young folks, much to the bafflement of CC.

- --

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:30:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Portugese

Does anyone here know Portugese?

I'm doing a mix CD and I thought it'd be cool to
translate the liner notes and song titles into
Portugese.  I don't know why, I just did.

Anyone up for that?

And, no, www.babelfish.com ain't gonna cut it.

Let me know if you are interested.

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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:02:36 -0500
From: Mark Renwick <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soundproof vs. Soundblast

> Mono Soundblast (promo) (WP 6041) and stereo Soundproof (WST 15011) list
> these tracks:
>
> Peg-leg Meringue
> Brazil
> Poinciana
> Mama yo Quero
> Orchids in the Moonlight
> Cumana
> Tico-Tico
> Frenesi
> Mexican Hat Dance
> Siboney
> Loose Ends Meringue
> La Cucaracha
>
And to make matters more interesting, the Sonotape
Corporation (affiliated with Westminster Record) released a
stereo reel-to-reel tape called "Latin American Adventure"
containing most of the tracks on stereo "Soundproof."

- --Mark Renwick
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 00 21:26:42 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) U.S./English vers. of "Chega de Saudade" book

For those who may be interested:  I just got word today that Ruy Castro's
History of the Bossa Nova book "Chega de Saudade" will be published in
the U.S. and in English within the next few months.  This is great news
for someone like myself who doesn't read Portugese and has had to rely on
bits and pieces of the book being translated by others (I have enjoyed
the photos, though)!

Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:34:10 +0000
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Recent finds / questions

I just got a couple of records of interest to the list:

Seven Golden Men soundtrack - Armando Travajoli - only $4 on Ebay and mint,
very jazzy and lots of wordless vocals including some frantic ba ba da
daas. Slightly too noodling for my liking but nice anyway.

Area Code 615 - A trip in the Country. Whats this? Acid country rock with
tom toms? Or country funk? Harmonica and good grooves including Stone Fox
Chase - the theme to The Old Grey Whistle Test (UK relevance only).
Although I have a 12" somewhere of Stone Fox Chase which is a much better
version and comes with a Lenny Dee (or is it Frankie Bones?) mix on the
other side.

And I just got Lee Hazelwood's 13 (my first taste of Lee). I really like
the arrangements but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be my cup of tea in other
circumstances. Doris' LP Did You Give the World Some Love Today Baby is
similar - funky groovers with poppy vocals and nice horns.


And whoever mentioned that the Duke of Burlington was a ripoff. Was it of
the Earl of Westminster? And the name of the track please?

Thanks



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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 00:07:10 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tradelist up n running....

Hi all!

Just wanted to drop my tradelist of recordings on ya.  If any of you have
lists of stuff you'd like to trade on CDR, email it to me and we'll dance!

http://www.lobue-art.com/trade.html

The list is long but incomplete, and will grow bigger, more unwieldy,
nightmarishly diverse, crawling into your homes to snuff your Michael
Boloton recordings from your boomboxes!

Keith

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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:36:18 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) VAT for Net music?

=46rom a credible e-newsletter I get. Mimi

EUROPE TO TAX SOME INTERNET TRANSACTIONS
The European Commission in Brussels plans to impose sales taxes on music and
software delivered over the Internet, requiring companies to collect a
"value-added" tax on such products. European merchants are hoping to end
what they consider an unfair advantage enjoyed by their American
competitors. The head of the Electronic Forum in Cologne, Germany, says:
"Without any changes, American companies would unquestionably have an unfair
advantage. This is the right direction, toward a global framework for
electronic commerce." (New York Times 2 Mar 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/02tax.html




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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:43:18 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) [OBITS] Mary Bodne,Dennis Danell, Baron Enrico di Portanova,George Duning,Louis Pelletier,Otello Martelli,

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary Bodne, an owner of New York's Algonquin
Hotel for 41 years, died Monday. She was 93.
    Bodne lived at the elegant hotel, the literary hangout of the
Jazz age, from 1946 until her death.
    Along with her husband, Ben, she purchased the 200-room hotel in
1946 for about $1 million from Frank Case, who had catered to
writers and editors including Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley,
Franklin O, Adams, Edna Ferber and Alexander Woollcott.
    The Bodnes owned the hotel until 1987, when it was sold to the
Aoki Corp. A decade later, it was sold to the Camberley Hotel
Company. Both sales brought renovations, including the installation
of self-service elevators in 1991.
    Bodne, whose family had immigrated to South Carolina from
Ukraine when she was a child, spent most afternoons greeting
regular guests from an armchair in the lobby of the French
Renaissance style hotel built in 1902. Ben Bodne died in 1992.

                           *Dennis Danell
    NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Dennis Danell, a guitarist for the
punk rock band Social Distortion, died Tuesday of an apparent brain
aneurysm. He was 38.
    Danell teamed with frontman Mike Ness who formed Social
Distortion in Orange County, Calif., in 1979. The band has been on
hiatus since it released its live album, ``Live at the Roxy,'' in
1998. Ness composed most of the band's songs, and Danell co-wrote
with him periodically.
    Danell and the group's bassist also played in their own band,
Fuel, in 1994 while Ness was working on material for a new album
for Social Distortion.
    Danell's discs with Social Distortion include: ``Mainliner''
(1981); ``Mommy's Little Monster'' (1982); ``Prison Bound'' (1985);
``Social Distortion'' (1990); ``Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell''
(1992); ``White Light, White Heat, White Trash'' (1996); and ``Live
at the Roxy'' (1998).
    Social Distortion appeared in the 1983 movie ``Another State of
Mind,'' which documented the group's low-budget cross-country tour.

                      *Baron Enrico di Portanova
    HOUSTON (AP) -- Baron Enrico di Portanova, a jet-setter and
grandson of Texas oil magnate Hugh Roy Cullen, died Monday of
throat cancer. He was 66.
    Di Portanova's life included high-profile legal wrangling over
the immense Cullen family estate, elaborate parties attended by the
rich and famous, and lavish homes in Acapulco, Italy and Houston.
    By the mid-1980s, di Portanova was said to have a net worth of
more than $50 million.
    He and his wife, Alessandra di Portanova, regularly entertained
such guests as Sylvester Stallone, Barbara Walters, Henry Kissinger
and Beverly Sills. Their Acapulco mansion served as a backdrop for
the James Bond movie ``License to Kill.''

                           *George Duning
    SAN DIEGO (AP) -- George Duning, whose musical scores for movies
such as ``Picnic'' and ``From Here to Eternity'' earned him Academy
Award nominations, died Tuesday of heart disease. He was 92.
    Duning was hired in the 1930s as musical director of the NBC
radio show ``Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge.''
    When he returned from the Navy after World War II, he joined
Columbia Pictures, where he scored the movies ``Let No Man Write My
Epitaph,'' ``My Sister Eileen,'' ``Houseboat,'' ``That Touch of
Mink'' and ``Bell, Book and Candle.''
    He also wrote the music for such television series as ``The Big
Valley'' and ``Naked City.''
======
>From Variety:

Louis Pelletier

Screenwriter Louis Pelletier, who wrote such Disney family films as ôHorse
in the Gray Flannel Suitö as well as TV shows and more than 500 episodes of
the radio show ôThe FBI in Peace and War,ö died Feb. 11 in his sleep at his
home near Santa Monica. He was 93.

Pelletier wrote television shows for Disney and screenplays for the films
ôBig Red,ö ôThose Calloways,ö ôFollow Me Boysö and ôSmith.ö

While in the U.S. Army during World War II, he met radio writer Jack Finke
and the two spent their off-duty hours writing scripts for CBS. They hit
paydirt with ôThe FBI in Peace and War,ö adapted from the book of that title
by Frederick L. Collins.

Pelletier and Finke wrote the show for more than 10 years, contributing more
than 500 scripts. The program ran from 1944 until 1958, dramatizing cases as
seen through criminalsÆ eyes, with field agent Adam Sheppard (voiced by
actor Martin Blaine) closing in for the arrests.

Pelletier is survived by his wife, Mary; a daughter from an earlier
marriage; two granddaughters and three great-grandchildren.
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>From the Guardian --

Otello Martelli, cinematographer, born May 19 1903; died February 20 2000

Master of cinematography behind great Italian movies

John Francis Lane
Tuesday February 29, 2000

One of the great craftsmen of Italian cinematography, Otello Martelli, who
has died aged 96, photographed some of the most famous postwar films, from
Rossellini's Paisα to De Santis's Bitter Rice. He worked on seven Fellini
films, most notably La Strada and La Dolce Vita.
Born in Rome, he became an assistant cameraman at 14, and worked on silent
films. He was signed up as a cameraman by the state newsreel company
Istituto Luce, and in 1928 was sent to film the tragic airship expedition to
the North Pole by Umberto Nobile. After working as assistant cameraman, his
first important credit was in 1934, for Alessandro Blasetti's Vecchia
Guardia (Old Guard), a blatantly fascist film which, however, was "saved"
for its plastic values even by leftwing critics of post-fascist Italy.

After the war, Martelli was chosen by Rossellini to join him on the
adventurous journey up the Italian peninsula that resulted in Paisα. His
experience as a newsreel cameraman helped to give the film a feeling of
authenticity in this reconstruction of the struggles for the liberation from
the Nazi-Fascists, even in sequences that were not always filmed on the real
locations (such as the opening episode in Sicily).

During the shooting in Florence, Martelli was a first-person witness to the
debut of the future director with whom he would later work, Federico
Fellini, who was then Rossellini's assistant and co-scriptwriter. One day,
Rossellini was sick, and Fellini was instructed to shoot the scene in a
country lane, where a wine cart trundles by under fire from snipers. "Sor
Otello", as Martelli was known (Sor being a respectful Roman term of
address), had planned to shoot the scene from as high an angle as possible,
but the brazen young assistant gave orders for the action to be filmed from
ground level, which Martelli contemptuously called "a mouse's point of
view". Fellini got his way, and was congratulated warmly by Rossellini when
the rushes were seen.

Martelli photographed two of Rossellini's most famous films, the equally
adventurous Stromboli, with Ingrid Bergman, and the film that Franτois
Truffaut once described as "the most beautiful film ever seen", Francis,
God's Juggler - its exquisite visual aspect being very much to the credit of
the cinematographer.

When, in 1950, Alberto Lattuada and Federico Fellini decided to produce,
write and co-direct a film about Italian provincial music-halls, Luci del
varietα (Variety Lights), it was Fellini who suggested Martelli as
cinematographer. And three years later, Fellini chose him to photograph his
second feature, I Vitelloni. The two men continued to bicker affectionately,
but when the first choice for cinematographer of La Strada had to pull out,
it was Sor Otello who took over - and the world was to acclaim him as well
as the director.

He worked again with Fellini on Il Bidone (1955), and, though uncredited,
took over from Aldo Tonti to finish Le Notti di Cabiria in 1956. With Tonti,
he went round the world scouting locations for RenΘ Clement's The Sea Wall
(1958), for which, in the end, he, rather than Tonti, was cinema- tographer.

He photographed many of the great cinematic beauties of those years, among
them Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren and Melina Mercouri, but Martelli himself
said that the most photogenic of all was Anita Ekberg, immortalised by
Fellini (with Martelli's help) in La Dolce Vita. Martelli's contribution to
this film was his most creative achievement in later life. In spite of
continuing disagreements with Fellini over camera angles, there was great
mutual respect.

Martelli maintained that "it was not true that Federico knew nothing about
camera technique. He just had his own ideas. For example, he wanted to use a
lens for panoramic shots which is normally used only for close-ups. I told
him there was a risk of flickering, but he said it didn't matter. He was
absolutely right."

But after Fellini's episode of Boccaccio '70 (1962), The Temptations Of Dr
Antonio, the director said he was tired of hearing Sor Otello continuously
complain, "It can't be done." For the film 8, he entrusted the
cinematography to a new emerging master of lighting, Gianni Di Venanzo. But
Di Venanzo, like many other emerging cinematographers, admitted that Sor
Otello had been their maestro. The chore which induced Martelli into
retirement was working on one of the episodes of The Three Faces (1965), the
film directed by Antonioni and others which producer Dino De Laurentiis had
hoped would launch the then Empress Soraya of Iran as an actress.

He is survived by two daughters and a son, Luigi, who is a television
director.
- ---
>From the L.A. Times --

Joseph V. Perry; Played Mobsters on TV

     Joseph V. Perry, 69, character actor best known for playing
mobsters in such series as "Barney Miller" and "Night Court." A gifted
comic and master of dialects, Perry received the 1949 Glenn Ford Award
at Santa Monica High School and a UCLA Best Actor award in 1952. The
actor worked steadily in such films as the 1965 epic "The Greatest Story
Ever Told" and Don Knotts' 1968 "The Shakiest Gun in the West." Perry
remained in demand over four decades for television roles.

In addition to his colorful mobsters on police and detective series that
included "Quincy," Perry had roles in the series "Outer Limits," "The
Monkees," "MASH," "Cheers" and "Seinfeld." Most recently, he was cast in
the recurring role of Nemo in the popular "Everybody Loves Raymond."
Perry was also memorable in television commercials including portraying
a rotund baseball player mimicking swimsuit model poses for Slim-Fast
diet products. On Feb. 23 in Burbank.
- -------------
>From the Guardian --

Ross Russell

At one time or another Charlie Parker's record producer, manager and
biographer

by Ronald Atkins
Thursday March 2, 2000

During a crucial period in the late 1940s, the author and jazz critic Ross
Russell, who has died aged 90, produced many of Charlie Parker's finest
recordings, and issued them on his own Dial label. He briefly became
Parker's manager and, after his death, wrote the definitive Parker
biography.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Russell had two spells at the University of
California, earning money in between by delivering telegrams. He became
interested in jazz and collected records avidly. In the 1930s he spent time
with a black swing band, experiencing the way such bands were treated on
nationwide tours.

He became involved with the contemporary jazz scene in 1945, after wartime
service as a merchant navy radio officer. Having saved some of his wages, he
used them to open the Tempo Music Shop in Hollywood Boulevard, selling jazz
records at a time when the scene was splitting between traditionalists and
the supporters of a new style, bebop. The beboppers soon took over the
store - driving the opposition to the rival shop across town - and more than
justified Russell's initial gamble in ordering, unheard, the latest New York
78s - the first consignment sold out in hours.

The alto saxophonist Charlie Parker came to Los Angeles in 1946 with Dizzy
Gillespie and hung around after the band returned to New York, finding work
in a club. By now a convert to Parker's genius, Russell not only agreed to
record him for Dial, but relocated the label to New York shortly after
Parker returned there.

Once a budding author, whose work included detective stories that were
published in the same magazines as Raymond Chandler's early efforts - he
knew Chandler and wrote an unpublished biography of him - Russell wrote
about bebop for the Record Changer magazine and later, in 1961, published a
picaresque novel, The Sound, whose main character is based on Parker.

Researching Parker's origins in Kansas City, Russell produced his Jazz Style
In Kansas City And The South West in 1971, followed in 1973 by the Parker
biography, Bird Lives, the essential work about a man whose musical genius
and disorganised lifestyle turned him into a 20th-century icon.

Writing occasional articles and running courses on African-American studies
at the University of California and Palomar college, Russell kept control of
the Dial catalogue, which was released most notably on the British Spotlite
label, to whom he eventually sold the rights in 1990. For the past 20 years
he was living in mobile homes, most recently in Palm Springs, though he
often contemplated leaving the US. Described by a friend as paranoid about
money, he moved an account estimated at $150,000 around offshore banks
before settling on Austria, from which he would draw enough to finance his
many European trips.

He often came to Britain, notably in 1994 when he attended the September
auction at Christie's of Parker's saxophone. A few weeks earlier, he had
given a recital of Parker's Dial recordings to a meeting of the
International Association of Jazz Record Collectors held in London's
Docklands. White-haired and sounding a bit like the older James Stewart, he
spoke about such controversial events as Parker recording Lover Man while
suffering from acute alcoholism and malnutrition - Parker announced he could
get through the session provided someone gave him a handful of benzedrine
tablets.

Russell had often been accused of cashing in by releasing everything Parker
recorded for Dial, including several rejected versions. He told us that
other musicians pressed him to do this because they wanted to hear as much
Parker as possible.

He did not think much of Miles Davis, the trumpeter on most of the Dial
records, and believed that jazz ended with the death of Parker. Russell had
nearly finished writing a book on bebop when he died. The only music he was
then listening to was opera, preferably in Vienna.

He was married four times and is survived by twins - a son and daughter.
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Haza family silence has hurt anti-AIDS fight
                    By Judy Siegel

 JERUSALEM (February 29) - The refusal by Ofra Haza's
family to
 reveal that she was infected with HIV "magnified the
stigma of AIDS and
took us back 20 years by demonizing the disease," said
Prof. Zvi
Bentwich, head of the AIDS clinic at Kaplan Hospital
in Rehovot and an
 internationally known authority on the disease.

 Bentwich was abroad when the 41-year-old singer was
suddenly brought
 to Sheba Hospital at Tel Hashomer with unpublicized
medical problems.
 Her bodily systems, including her kidneys and lungs,
quickly collapsed,
 and she died 13 days after admission.

 The hospital, by order of the family, said she had
pneumonia as a
 complication of the flu, but it never revealed she was
infected with the
 AIDS virus.

 Only yesterday, Ha'aretz broke the silence by Israeli
papers that honored
 the family's request and reported that Haza "died of
AIDS," but without
quoting any official source in the hospital or the
Health Ministry.

Bentwich said he regretted the fact that the Haza
family decided to act as it
did, keeping secret the cause of her death. "It's a
shame, although I could
understand them," he said. But he added that he hoped
"the tumult created
by the revelation of AIDS will somewhat balance out
the damage.
However, I don't know if this will be effective in
clearing the air about
 AIDS," which is now recognized as a chronic disease
that can infect
 anyone but can be kept under control with a cocktail
of drugs.

Bentwich said he did not know details of Haza's case,
but said that flu
 could be fatal in an HIV carrier who was not receiving
proper treatment
and whose immune system was compromised.

"It could be that she didn't take the anti-HIV drug
cocktail at all; or she
may have received it but didn't like the regimen or
the virus showed
resistance to the drugs. Or she may have gotten it,
but it wasn't enough to
 strengthen her immune system," Bentwich said.

The Health Ministry had its "hands tied," he said,
because it was not
allowed by the Patients' Rights Law to allow doctors
to reveal the disease
against her or her family's will.

However, he did not justify claims in some papers that
Sheba staffers who
 treated her were angry because they hadn't been told
Haza had HIV.
"Every medical worker is trained to regard every
patient as potentially
having AIDS and required to protect himself," he said.

 Meanwhile, Haza's former manager Bezalel Aloni, who
had repeatedly
suggested asking Haza's family, and particularly her
husband, about the
 cause of her death, met Sunday night with Dan Region
police chief
Lt.-Cmdr. David Kraoza and said his life had been
threatened after he
 made the comments.
Police are checking into his claims.


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