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Andre Lux was another one that appeared at the same time (and of course he has repeatedly tried to get back on since then, most recently with that whole Yor routine).
He tried again only a couple of months ago, under various different names. He's like a disease that never goes away.
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This thread made me check my own arrival date, and found to my surprise that, come this year's D-Day anniversary, I'll have been 12 years a slave.... to FSM. You people are almost like family.
beat me by 2 years. Bastard! ha ha.
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Mar 31, 2015 - 8:20 PM
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Howard L
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Well, Bill, our resident "magnificent bastard" a/k/a "assretard" a/k/a Shaun R is another member of the 15 years+ circle. In addition to others already mentioned, let's add Jim Cleveland, John "Philadelphia Son" M, and Preston NJ to the list.
As Thor has pointed out, we have had our share of dearly departed and they all pretty much left at young ages. Mr. Scofield, Mr. McKone and Yours Truly were the same age give or take a few months to a year. We also tended to (1) have our share of similar experiences and tastes, and (2) see eye to eye, so I felt a bit of the newfangled cyber-kinship in particular with that pair.
Tom was a big proponent of Les Baxter, Guy of Henry Mancini.
Per Ron's tribute post already cited, it's a pity these guys weren't around to have seen the full explosion of soundtracks made available. They were meant to see it. In the case of Tom and the rest sans Guy, their words survive in numerous threads. It is eerie. It is cyberspace. I'm still getting used to the whole virtual-community phenomenon in all its facets.
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Oh, my. Just went through that thread. Amazing. Mr. Pulliam's is a remarkable companion piece to what's going on here. I'm deeply impressed. And moved. How did I miss that? Ah, the date reminds me I was in the midst of a particularly painful period among the many aforementioned residential moves. It was just a couple years after moving back up North to see to m'aged parents.
Hey Ron, in the event yer lurking about, this Bud's for you.
Cheers.
Could you make it a Guinness?
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My earliest memory of posting to the message board was a pre-2000 discussion about movie musicals. Guy McKone was leading a discussion on 1962 musicals in which "The Music Man" was being discussed alongside "Gypsy"...both Warner Brothers movies.
I remember someone made a remark about "Gypsy" director Mervyn LeRoy that was a bit negative and I jumped in and started sharing what I knew about the making of that film.
McKone became a buddy at that moment.
Too little was ever shared between us before he left this mortal coil.
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thread crapper and a troll. lol. and taking this thread into the garbage can again with filth flarn filth!! ha ha
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Apr 1, 2015 - 8:14 PM
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TAKING The Music Man--Special Edition--TO THE TOP!
Posted by Howard L on November 05, 1998 at 10:47:00:
Messrs. McKone, Mellies, and Kinsinger:
WE ARE DEFINITELY TALKING ROYALTY HERE! Oh, is this restored production a triumph.
Absolutely gorgeous--on all fronts. The chorus never sounded so "grand movie stylish", right from the
first "You Are In I-oway" and "Oh, we got trouble". The detail in the widescreen version is crisp, crystal
clear, colorful and A REVELATION. And I'm only 1/4 the way through! Can't wait for the '76
Trombones production number--wail, you Heindorf trumpets, wail!--and that library gone haywire to
Maaaaaaaaa...rion.
Brian, you are on the money--this is for sure one of the better musical transfers from Broadway to Big
Screen. Mr. K, it's right up there with the unabridged 1776. Both must be seen in all their letterboxed
splendor. And Sir Guy: Mr. Heindorf indeed, as with the other two, must be restored to his Finian's
Rainbow full glory next. Thankfully, we have excellent LPs, but I want to be BLOWN AWAY with HIS
grand movie style while watching AND LISTENING to the video. Music Man is just great. What a
marvelous tour of music. Unsurpassing joy (the Wells Fargo Wagon!). I've fallen in love with Shirley
Jones again--hell, I was only 6 the first time! And forget Pleasantville, Homewood, Willoughby and
Bedford Falls--
I WANT TO LIVE IN RIVER CITY!
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Follow Ups:
. WHO THE - WHAT THE -? Guy McKone 13:41:00 11/05/98 (0)
. YE GAHDS! - GREAT HONK! Guy McKone 13:38:20 11/05/98 (3)
. I MUST HAVE IT!!! Chris Kinsinger 20:58:48 11/05/98 (2)
. Re: I MUST HAVE IT!!! John Maher 06:25:34 11/06/98 (1)
. Re: I MUST HAVE IT!!! pross 09:23:31 11/06/98 (0)
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“There it stuck fast, and would move no more...”
I wonder if he was ever able to move it?
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Apr 2, 2015 - 2:06 PM
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Howard L
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Re subscribing to the magazine, do you recall the early black-and-white issue with everyone's top ten "desert island" picks?
Absolutely. Lukas may correct me on this, but I think the first coloured version of the magazine was the STAR WARS issue in mid 1997?
In any case, in the late 90s I bought all back issues prior to my first subscribed magazine (the TAKING OF PELHAM issue from 1996) from an American collector, in addition to a bunch of other magazines. It was quite amusing to read the first few one-page newsletters to 11 subscribers around the world in 1990.
LOL I've just found the December 1995 issue. Re Desert Island Movies, Lukas K requested, "Send your list if you haven't already: 1) You take the music to the desert island only inside the movie--no bad movies. Think synergy. 2) Don't feel compelled to list the year of release, I'll add it. 3) I have no spare room for lengthy comments. Please spare me. 4) Include your year of birth (optional), so we can do neat demographic stuff later. 5) Ten movies--no cheating."
Naturally, I cheated. Kinda.
...wavy...swirly...
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962), M. Jarre
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Elmer Bernstein
Ben-Hur (1959), Miklos Rozsa [note: LK included the accents in his name; class!]
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Hugo Friedhofer
Field of Dreams (1989), James Horner
Dances With Wolves (1990), John Barry
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Ernest Gold.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), John Williams
The African Queen (1952), Allan Gray
Gone With The Wind (1939), M. Steiner
Honorable Mentions: Empire of the Sun, The Year of Living Dangerously, Time Machine, Psycho, Vertigo, King Kong, Lost Weekend, Superman
Can't Help But Mention: Invaders From Mars (1953), The Thing (1951)
Why Not Mention: Lovesick, Breakfast at Tiffany's
I am 39 years old and my love of film/
film music stems from a childhood fascination
with the original Twilight Zone
series and an annual huddle around the
old Magnavox with the family to see
The Wizard of Oz. For Terry Roberts,
who wrote re: Herbert Stothart in
#59/60: If you liked the incidental score
to Oz, check out The Human Comedy.
Stothart snuck in the "Toto escapes the
picnic basket" theme into this sentimental
1943 piece of Americana. It's a
lovely score.
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Howard, looking at your profile and mine, it looks like we both registered Oct. 2, 2000.
Gee, Joan, you and Howard have a whole week on me! I signed in first on October 9, 2000. How time flies...
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Did I miss you (weren't you posting in '98-'99)?
Eh, either way, close enough.
I've been chained to this place so long that I feel like a character in Ogden Nash's "Tale of the 13th Floor" (the poem, not the film -- check it out if you never have). But the thing says I signed up in October of 2000, so I guess that's when it was.
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Apr 3, 2015 - 3:47 PM
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Howard L
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I know, I still scratch my head at the thought of clicking & coming here for 17 years. Seventeen! Twenty years including that entry on the FSM hard copy and whatever else before and in-between online status. Some current members were evidently born in the intervening years. Me, I was Jack Benny's age at inception (and still am, of course...).
Never have gotten around to that steak, Mr. Wilcox, nor to catching up with Thor either here or across the drink. We all seemed to just miss each other which is what happens when you deal with an itinerant little creature like this 'boarder. Such was not the case in Detroit in Y2K when I, Mark Hatfield, H Rocco, Wedge, Shaun R and Jerry G ( ) leaped off the keyboard into Flesh Fair territory. That was one for the ages. If memory serves, our "badges" read Florida, Arizona, NYC, Michigan, Pennsylvania and California as points of origin. We caught up with "Lorien" (Boston) and "solarwnz" (?), and representing the other side of Scoreville, "James" (Chicago). He was a high schooler then.
There have been a few individual encounters as reported, too (CAT/Cindy--here's looking at you, kid  ). But the real "convocation" was the gathering 5 years ago in Hollywood. Which appears to have turned into an annual event. It was there that the scope, for me, as hinted at in the close of the OP, came to full fruition. Kendall, Bond and others responsible for this whole shebang...schmoozing with them and numerous messageboard residents...reuniting with my temporary sax partner and jazz band instructor from h.s. days turned composer, H. Manfredini...confirming in person that Mr. Jones wasn't jaking it that he'd been hit by a bus  ...you get the idea.
It simply adds a neat and fun dimension to it all.
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