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Here is the summary preview of the issue from the website:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/02/graydon-carter-on-hollywood-issue-2016
In its imagery and self-presentation, Hollywood doesn’t come across as the epitome of “family-friendly” to much of the country. Indeed, from a distance—or up close, for that matter—it looks more like Game of Thrones with infinity pools, a domain populated by ruthless opportunists and striving arrivistes. But it’s difficult not to be struck by the way ordinary family relationships actually underlie so much of the movie business. I don’t just mean “acting families,” such as the Hustons and the Barrymores and the Redgraves, but the people behind the screen as well. As V.F. contributing editor David Kamp points out in “The Music Men,” a powerful case in point is the extended Newman family—based in Los Angeles and now headed by the revered singer and songwriter Randy—whose fingers can be found all over the movie music of the past 85 years, and in every niche you can imagine. The dramatic searchlight fanfare that announces every film from Twentieth Century Fox? That was the work of composer and conductor Alfred Newman, Randy’s uncle, the paterfamilias, who in the 1930s worked with Charlie Chaplin on Modern Times and went on to become the musical director of Twentieth Century Fox and win nine Academy Awards.
It was Alfred who more or less enticed the whole Newman family to move to Southern California. Two of his brothers joined him in the movie-music business. Alfred’s oldest son, David, is a composer—he wrote the music for Ice Age, Matilda, and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, among other movies. He also re-recorded his father’s Twentieth Century Fox anthem for the studio. Alfred’s younger son Thomas is a fellow composer. (He wrote the music for the latest James Bond movie, Spectre, and for the upcoming Pixar release Finding Dory.) Their sister Maria is a composer and violinist. And then of course there’s Alfred’s nephew Randy—nominated for 20 Academy Awards (and winning twice, for Monsters, Inc., in 2002, and for Toy Story 3, in 2011). Randy is now at work on Toy Story 4 and is about to release his first new studio album in eight years.
“The musical Newmans are as storied an Old Hollywood family as the Goldwyns, Warners, or Zanucks,” Kamp writes—and that is unquestionably true. As Kamp notes, the roots of all these families lie in the shtetls of the Old World. But there’s a bit of a difference between the Goldwyns, say, and the Newmans. The Goldwyns are “Hollywood royalty.” (See also Liz Goldwyn’s “My Hollywood” reminiscence.) The Newmans’ pedigree, more down to earth and yet no less integral to the way the industry works, is known as “Hollywood gentry.” Although, given that Alfred had the foresight to buy up a lot of property in Pacific Palisades, where much of the Newman clan now lives, perhaps the term “Hollywood landed gentry” is more apt.
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I thought Broughton re-recorded the Fox fanfare back in 1994? Maybe there was another one done more recently, I guess...
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