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Feb 11, 2019 - 12:46 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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In Tim Burton's 2005 animated film CORPSE BRIDE, "Victor Van Dort" (Johnny Depp) is a milquetoast--a bumbling, unlucky dreamer. To make things worse, his parents (voiced by Paul Whitehouse and Tracey Ullman) are forcing him into the classic "arranged marriage", which is more like a contract with the cash-strapped but aristocratic "Everglots"--"Finis" (Albert Finney) and "Maudeline" (Joanna Lumley). Things turn around, however, when he meets his intended, "Victoria Everglot" (Emily Watson) who is actually very attractive, inside and out. Albert Finney had been the leading choice to play "Grandpa Joe" in CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005), but when Tim Burton was attached to direct, he nixed the idea, because the only big name he wanted in the movie was Johnny Depp. So Burton cast Finney in this movie to apologize. Said Burton of making the film: "The amazing thing is all the actors never worked together. They were never in a room together, so they were all doing their voices, except for Albert (Finney) and Joanna (Lumley) did a few scenes together, everybody else was separate." Danny Elfman's score was released by Warner Sunset and expanded for a 2010 Burton-Elfman box set.
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Feb 11, 2019 - 1:27 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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In A GOOD YEAR, after years of no contact with his "Uncle Henry" (Albert Finney), London banker and bond trader "Max Skinner" (Russell Crowe) learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman (Marion Cotillard), and a young American (Abbie Cornish) who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy (Freddie Highmore) know things that Max the man has forgotten? Ridley Scott directed this amiable romantic comedy. Marc Streitenfeld's score for this 2006 film was released by Sony/Legacy. Albert Finney and Freddie Highmore in A GOOD YEAR
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GATHERING STORM is the best Churchill bio ever! Check it out! Brm
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Feb 11, 2019 - 1:14 PM
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Rozsaphile
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Newton would go on to compose the hymn "Amazing Grace." More precisely, he wrote the words that were later set to several preexisting tunes From Wikipedia: When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton. Contemporary hymnbooks did not contain music and were simply small books of religious poetry. The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns (London, 1808), where it is set to the tune "Hephzibah" by English composer John Husband.[44] Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes; more than twenty musical settings of "Amazing Grace" circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named "New Britain", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies ("Gallaher" and "St. Mary") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw (Cincinnati, 1829). Spilman and Shaw, both students at Kentucky's Centre College, compiled their tunebook both for public worship and revivals, to satisfy "the wants of the Church in her triumphal march". Most of the tunes had been previously published, but "Gallaher" and "St. Mary" had not.[45] As neither tune is attributed and both show elements of oral transmission, scholars can only speculate that they are possibly of British origin.[46] A manuscript from 1828 by Lucius Chapin, a famous hymn writer of that time, contains a tune very close to "St. Mary", but that does not mean that he wrote it.[47]
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Bob, THE RUN OF THE COUNTRY (1995) seems to have been omitted from your "retrospective" ??
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