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H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Too hard for me without looking, Mr. D ... NP: BANDOLERO (Mr. Ponytail)
posted 04-16-2000 09:56 PM PT (US)

PeterD Oscar® Winner	Aw, come on, take a guess. Here's some hints: this was a highly regarded score, and keep in mind that these were Universal serials . . . There, now I've probably made it TOO easy.
posted 04-17-2000 06:12 AM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Oscar® Winner	Wow, what a long thread! The music in those serials was from Franz Waxman's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. I remember those serials quite well. [This message has been edited by Nicolai P. Zwar (edited 17 April 2000).]
posted 04-17-2000 11:41 AM PT (US)

PeterD Oscar® Winner	Nicolai is 100% correct! Got another question . . . ?
posted 04-17-2000 12:08 PM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Oscar® Winner	Well, lemme think... how 'bout this one: We all know Ennio Morricone composed John Carpenter's THE THING. Less know is that Morricone was only Carpenter's second choice. His first choice was another famous composer, but he turned down the job. (For reasons I don't know.) Who was that composer?
posted 04-17-2000 12:12 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Good Lord, stumped over and over. I reread this and then was going to make the plunge with BRIDE, but Nicolai beat me to it. Nobody answered the question of who Paramount wished to replace Rota on THE GODFATHER. My best guess is Henry Mancini. It's only a guess, this is one story I don't know. As for who Carpenter originally considered for THE THING ... not a clue. Best guess: John Williams.
posted 04-17-2000 02:56 PM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Oscar® Winner	Nope, it wasn't Williams. As for the GODFATHER story... hmmm... Burt Bacharach? (Buahahahahahaha!)
posted 04-17-2000 03:40 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	What do these three films have in common in the area of film music? In the Meantime, Darling-1943, Remember the Day-1941 and Stella Dallas-1937. Best, John.
posted 04-17-2000 05:08 PM PT (US)

g Oscar® Nominee	HRocco: Nobody answered the question of who Paramount wished to replace Rota on THE GODFATHER. My best guess is Henry Mancini. It's only a guess, this is one story I don't know. Pretty damn good guess because you got it right Mancini was all ready and pumped to get score this flick. regards, -g
posted 04-17-2000 10:45 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	(shrug) (where's my shrugging icon?) I guess I'm just a clever boy ... I frankly thought it was Mancini in part because he was of Italian descent himself. Also the "pop music" connection kind of helped give it away, and I mean, I doubt the job was ever going to, for example, Isaac Hayes. Actually, I bet Mancini would have written a fascinating score for THE GODFATHER. I think he was grossly undervalued as a serious musician, just regarded as a tunemeister, when he was in reality head and shoulders above a lot of his contemporaries and successors. Now I've got a question: Why was the first GODFATHER denied an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score? Nicolai, I guessed Williams might've been asked to do THE THING because he was fresh off all those fantasy projects then, even though I suspect Carpenter wanted a synth score all along, and I doubt he would have gotten one from Williams. So okay, who else was big on synths then ... My three new guesses: Isao Tomita (who was also considered for ALIEN), Gil Melle (who was also considered for ALIEN), and ... this might sound like a weird guess, but he DID do BLADE RUNNER the same year -- VANGELIS. (Am I allowed to post three guesses? Too late, I have done it.) NP: THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Michael Kamen, dreadful film, wonderful score) P.S. Nicolai, you're not going to tell me it was Jack Nitzsche, I hope.
posted 04-17-2000 11:48 PM PT (US)

SBD Oscar® Winner	Thank the maker, a remotely easy one. This happened because parts of Nino Rota's fine score were taken from a previous composition of his. As such, Rota's slot went to John Addison for SLEUTH.
posted 04-18-2000 05:58 AM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	That's right, SBD, and paradoxically enough, GODFATHER 2 WAS nominated, even if that too included the previously used theme. Go figure.
posted 04-26-2000 08:21 AM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Okay ... you got it ... so what was Rota's earlier, pre-GODFATHER composition CALLED? And what person VERY close to the Coppola family sat on the Academy board that tried to determine whether the original GODFATHER was nominatable? (that one's extremely easy, which is partly why this question's in two parts)
posted 04-26-2000 11:12 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	The Devil's Playground, 1976 Australian Movie directed by Fred Schepisi.....Who did the Score?? ...Someone tell Me!, As I don't know either?
posted 04-27-2000 06:50 AM PT (US)

Kevin Oscar® Winner	Timmer, Bruce Smeaton did the score for that movie. Can anyone tell me what romantic comedy in the late 1980's he scored? Kevin NP - Local Hero
posted 04-27-2000 07:18 AM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Thanks kevin!, Is it available?
posted 04-27-2000 04:10 PM PT (US)

SBD Oscar® Winner	Bruce Smeaton scored ROXANNE in 1987.
posted 04-28-2000 06:34 AM PT (US)

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