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Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	Marc Shaiman Elmer Bernstein Leonard Rosenman Michel Legrand Patrick Williams Danny Elfman Alan Silvestri Basil Poledouris I believe that ALL of these composers are actually lurking right here at this message board...they never post, or at least they never use their real names. Alex North Alfred Newman Bernard Herrmann ...are among the composers who read our comments from their internet connections in The Great Beyond. Sadly, their spiritual state prevents them from posting (those transluscent fingers just can't PUSH the keys!). DO YOU BELIEVE that any of our favorite film music composers actually COME HERE? I DO! I just wish that they would POST! COME ON!!! POST!!!
posted 03-23-2000 08:45 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Okay, one of those I know for a fact ... several others seem likely. But where did you get YOUR list, chum? (You're not trying to get me to admit -- oh, never mind.)
posted 03-23-2000 08:49 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	Rocco, My list came from... RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD! No thinking, just keystrokes. NOW: I want the composer who YOU KNOW is lurking here to just show up, and let us talk with him... We'll be good. At least I WILL...
posted 03-23-2000 08:53 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	I thought you knew. He lurks, but to my knowledge doesn't post. It isn't me (he said.)
posted 03-23-2000 08:59 PM PT (US)

Wedge Oscar® Winner	Hee hee hee! It ain't meeee! Beyond that, discretion prevails. I'll just say Chris's list isn't 100% wrong. NP - INDEPENDENCE DAY by David Arnold (Yeah, I know, Rocco. So sue me. It's fun.)
posted 03-23-2000 09:09 PM PT (US)

Wedge Oscar® Winner	P.S. - Rocco: Chris knows.
posted 03-23-2000 09:10 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	P.S.-Wedge: Chris made a lucky guess. I DON'T know. But you guyz better TELL me, or I'll-
posted 03-23-2000 09:22 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Oscar® Winner	The truth is out there =D --Kyp NP: Magnolia: Jon Brion (***1/2)
posted 03-23-2000 09:25 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Wedge, Chris knows NOW. I assumed he already DID. When he wrote me it seemed he did NOT. But NOW he DOES without any CHANCE of DISPUTE. (It still ain't me!) (how could it be?) (i'd never TELL you ... )
posted 03-23-2000 09:48 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	I KNOW! I KNOW! I knowIknowIknowIknowIknowIknowIknow... I K N O W ! ! ! OK, it's time for you to come out and talk to us, fella! C'mon! We LOVE ya'!
posted 03-23-2000 10:50 PM PT (US)

Jennie Oscar® Winner	UGH!!! Sheesh...Who is it??? I am SOOO lost...I have no clue who it is...and I'm dying to know...can anyone tell me?? C'mon...help a girl out here...I'm desperate...Please??? Pretty pleease??? With a cherry on top? and whipped cream? c'mon now...i'll even had the nuts....PLEASE!! I'm begging you...
posted 03-23-2000 11:22 PM PT (US)

Jennie Oscar® Winner	Ooopss....thats "i'll even ADD the nuts" sowwy hehe...
posted 03-24-2000 12:36 AM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	I Know!!
posted 03-24-2000 05:21 AM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	I don't want to know. Wouldn't want our 'mystery composer' to think I'm trying to suck up in the event of a post with praise.
posted 03-24-2000 05:38 AM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	Oh Howard, you're such a party poop.
posted 03-24-2000 06:45 AM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	Really? If I recall it was, umm...uh....hmmmm...YOU who exposed 'John Rhoades' in our last "party", and I had to clean up the mess!
posted 03-24-2000 08:53 AM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	To Howard and Chris, This is a topic that I will actually wonder about when I'm at work today. Who was John Rhoades? Who is the mystery composer? This will actually bother me. Shaun
posted 03-24-2000 10:40 AM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	'Mr. Rhoades' was the pseudonym of choice for a certain real-life composer who was coerced into confessing his occasional "lurkabout" ways in a certain "Fact or Fiction?" piece which, you may recall, included a cameo appearance by a certain Mr. Rutherford.
posted 03-24-2000 11:24 AM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	It's all becoming clearer now! Thanks! Shaun
posted 03-24-2000 11:31 AM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Oscar® Winner	The thing is, if YOU were a famous film score composer, would you post here? I remember Marc Shaiman posted quite some time ago a few times on rec.music.movies only to vanish completely from that forum. Why? Who knows. I can only guess, but I assume that he probably got swamped with all kinds of e-mails with all kinds of odd requests or "critiques" of his work. (I don't know, this is just guessing.) IF they post here at all, I'm sure they wear shades. NP: Pierre Boulez: Première Sonate Idil Biret, piano (Naxos) [This message has been edited by Nicolai P. Zwar (edited 24 March 2000).]
posted 03-24-2000 12:03 PM PT (US)

James Oscar® Winner	Hmm... I could be James Horner or James Newton Howard... ... but I'm not. I don't want to know who it is, and I don't think they'd want many of us to know who it is. Remember the Simpsons episode where Homer "dropped in" on Alec Balwin and Kim Basinger? I think that's exactly what would happen here. If I was a composer, I'd post on this board, but I'd do it under a pseudonym, (1) because I wouldn't want anyone to think my opinions were more valid than theirs, and (2) I already post under a pseudonym... I normally hate it when people know who I am. James
posted 03-24-2000 01:36 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Oscar® Winner	NOW NOT PLAYING: Any 12-tone crap written or conducted by Pierre Boulez. Memo to Nicolai: If by any chance you live near a school record library, look for a weird experimental piece called "Another August" by William Flanagan. Ned Rorem dismissed it as Messiaenic movie-music, but Virgil Thomson had the good taste to like it. It's a psychedelic masterpiece. Es ist Luft von anderen Planeten, as Schoenberg said. And the final irony is: "Another August" is partially a 12-tone piece.
posted 03-24-2000 01:47 PM PT (US)

mlw Oscar® Winner	Bernard Herrmann yells at me sometimes, especially when he thinks I'm cutting em too much slack.
posted 03-24-2000 01:53 PM PT (US)

Al Oscar® Winner	If one of those listed visits the site, it is a good chance that it is Marc Shaiman. He seems to use the net quite a bit. NP - Morricone's "Mission to Mars" (Where?)
posted 03-24-2000 03:30 PM PT (US)

robin4 Oscar® Winner	Anyone else as lost as I am?????????
posted 03-24-2000 07:54 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Benny would yell at you anyway, Michael, just on principle. I really was going to respond to ANY post you made to tell you that if you haven't already seen it, you should check out the current issue of "Creative Screenwriting." SENSATIONAL cover-story interview with John Milius. Boy, he hasn't mellowed. Didja know that Milius was the model for the John Goodman character in THE BIG LEBOWSKI? Milius doesn't mention this, but the Coens have. NP: THE 13TH WARRIOR
posted 03-24-2000 08:02 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	"The Wind And The Lion", "Conan The Barbarian", "Farewell To The King"...three great movies! I MISS JOHN MILIUS! I don't want to see him on TV... SO, that was actually John Milius sitting in that little diner, saying, "I'm just enjoying my coffee!" (I think I got that quote correct) NP: "The War Lord" Moross [This message has been edited by Chris Kinsinger (edited 24 March 2000).]
posted 03-24-2000 08:23 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Milius is currently in talks to revamp the Dirty Harry character for a new series of pictures, minus Clint, I suppose. (Fun fact: Milius wrote the bulk of the final filmed version of the original DIRTY HARRY, but didn't know how to appeal to the Guild to demand credit. He DOES get credit -- shared with Michael Cimino! -- on MAGNUM FORCE. And he also said that after he completed his work on the picture, another draft was commissioned from -- TERRENCE MALICK! Who'd a thunk it? He also manages a faintly amusing put-down of Kevin Reynolds, who wrote the original version of RED DAWN. Doesn't mention him by name though, which is weirdly polite.) NP: SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET (some guy with the middle initial T.)
posted 03-24-2000 08:32 PM PT (US)

Jennie Oscar® Winner	Wow...I'm utterly confused...but thats ok It's true that if a composer was giving their opinions and replies, they would want to stay unknown for the reasons that many of you guys listed. So, it's all good, we're all one big happy family. =)
posted 03-24-2000 11:04 PM PT (US)

Dawk Oscar® Winner	to LL: what in the hell does that have to do with anything? just curious. -Dawk
posted 03-24-2000 11:20 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	This is what happens, Chris. This is what happens when you.... Shaun
posted 03-24-2000 11:39 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	... to the tune of smashed windshields. Chuckle chuckle chuckle. And that IS what happens, folks ... chuckle chuckle chuckle chuckle chuckle chuckle chuckle ... Be kind to strangers!
posted 03-25-2000 12:04 AM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	You'll have to forgive Lazlo, Dawk. Hasn't been the same since Ilsa demanded he learn to play "As Time Goes By."
posted 03-25-2000 09:34 AM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Oscar® Winner	Memo to Dawk: The fundamental things apply as Howard waddles by. I'm tawkin about music, Dawk. It's a form of sonic entertainment that has absolutely nothing to do with John Milius's Jaws anecdote about the Indianapolis, the aircraft carrier that got torpedoed by the Japs. I'm tawkin about a subject that is completely non-germane to all of those sailors who got eaten by tiger sharks. I'm not here to discuss the black eyes of a shark. Dead eyes. Like a doll's eyes. NOW NOT PLAYING: "Godzilla versus The Lee Strasberg Actors Studio on Gilligan's Island" by Hideo Yakamoto. (Use the Method, Rocco.) [This message has been edited by Luscious Lazlo (edited 25 March 2000).]
posted 03-25-2000 02:04 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	Show me the way to go home, I'm tired an' I wanna go to bed; Oh, I had a little drink about an hour ago, And it went right to my head!
posted 03-25-2000 03:13 PM PT (US)

Dave Oscar® Winner	I put on my cool Fox Mulder jacket and try to figure out all of the clues....if there were acturally any dave NP : POLTERGEIST
posted 03-25-2000 03:20 PM PT (US)

Marc Flake Oscar® Winner	LL: The Indianapolis was not an aircraft carrier, it was a heavy cruiser. Marc
posted 03-25-2000 04:52 PM PT (US)

Richard Oscar® Winner	Can we at least have the name of the composer? Just the name of the guy? (I'm assuming it's a guy) Pretty pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeassssse???
posted 03-25-2000 05:27 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	At least a tiny little hint! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeze!
posted 03-26-2000 11:46 AM PT (US)

mlw Oscar® Winner	Eternal banzais to Wild Bill Kelso for when Milius, that GREAT f'kin lunatic director, said Star Wars was a piece of ****, and for pointing out that Spielberg, after getting the Thalberg and proclaiming we need to get back to the word, of course went out and did another Indiana Jones. Also said Duel was Spielberg's best movie up til then: "that movie had guts!" Said Coppola's version of Apocalypse Now was better than his. I saw Milius' original draft of Texas Rangers offered, was thinking about getting it. One of the best living screenwriters. Idiotic they get all wet over pathetic Charmin ads like Alan Ball's annoyingly pretentious John Updike-with-a-twist American Beauty (did you see his oscar speech-- what was THAT? I thought he was supposed to be a writer-- the truth squirts out under pressure!). Milius writes epic fist-slamming poetry from the gut. BIG WEDNESDAY, his 1978 John Ford-like paen to surfing, youth, his own mythic inner-life, is one of the great movies of that decade, Milius' compleat expression. True filmmaking is there anytime the elements involved outgrow their pretentions and stake out their own life.
posted 03-27-2000 01:00 PM PT (US)

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