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Howard L Oscar® Winner	So much about "creative accounting" in the news these days and to think before all this, "creative accounting" meant a hysterical Mel Brooks film with a great John Morris score. Oh, pardon me: today's paper speaks of Enron's "aggressive approach to accounting". Venal, ain't it? Venal--ah, that can only mean a mean streets of New York score; Herrmann's Taxi Driver. "Venal", that's what Travis would say. That's what Travis did say. Ho Hum, who knew what and when did they know it. 'S got a familiar ring...and a David Shire score to match. What the hey: insider trading, not-so-independent auditors...yep, greed is good. Especially with the Stewart Copeland touch. But wait, this is no time to make movie music. The evildoers made millions while the little people lost everything. De-regulation didn't mean de-criminalizing. Or did it? Legalized bribery is everywhere, they're all on the take (some more so than others, quite apparently), some will go down, some might flee to Costa Rica, some might say what other Fortune 500 outfits has Arthur Andersen helped cook the books we gotta pull all our money quick sell, sell for goshsakes...and that means confidence in the market goes and you know that so goes the US of A so goes the rest of the world and just yesterday all these flag-waving patrons of commerce pulled the rug out of law abiding Mr. & Mrs. Front Porch but man raise them stripes higher and higher there's a sucker born every minute... ...of course...The Texas connection...always a Texas connection...Sutherland relaying Costner the whole shot, incredible John Williams cue builds and wrenches and finally sears the very soul as the whole scope of the thing comes into horrifying focus... ...Yep, the Williams cue. That's the tune in the news these days. ******************************************************************* [Message edited by Howard L on 01-18-2002]
posted 01-18-2002 05:16 PM PT (US)

LRobHubbard Oscar® Winner	Stewart Copland's music from WALL STREET would be an obvious choice...
posted 01-18-2002 10:54 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	...I keep hearing Michael Small's The Parallax View score, which Alan Pakula asked David Shire to mimic...
posted 01-18-2002 10:54 PM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	...Excellent. But what of the upright, *abrasive* but thoroughly honest gal who saw through the "accounting hoax" and damned the corporate torpedoes and moved straight ahead into the CEO's office? She had everything to lose; the good egg in a nest of vipers. Ah. When Ms. Watkins goes to Washington, most surely it can only be accompanied by a Dimitri Tiomkin score...
posted 01-20-2002 01:30 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Oscar® Winner	I keep hearing "Gay Berlin" from Sir Walton's Battle of Britain... What a circus. NP: Tora! Tora! Tora! (FSM version)
posted 01-21-2002 11:44 AM PT (US)

MWRuger Oscar® Winner	They should play a funeral march for the biggest corporate bankruptcy in US History. Not to mention the thousands of unemployed people and those who last their retirement funds. The Texas Teacher's Pension Fund lost 700 million all by themselves.
posted 01-21-2002 01:51 PM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	A circus...funeral march. Hmm. Per these last 2 replies, forget the traditional underscore, just do it New Orleans-style like in Live and Let Die...
posted 01-21-2002 02:04 PM PT (US)

Dana Wilcox Oscar® Winner	I keep hearing "Money, Money" from CABARET...
posted 01-21-2002 07:56 PM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	Well, well, well--now we've got an old-fashioned business suicide. I don't know, things are definitely getting weirder... ...and despite what Johnny Mandel composed it is not painless. But it is the most private of actions, unless you're a high school kid flying into downtown Tampa...yes, very private, personal, deep...no need to score a business suicide, just a brief toast to the man in the mirror and then have the camera nonchalantly pan around the room...and stop; nothing left to see but an open window, curtains fluttering in the breeze...that's the traditional company way but our man at Enron wasn't traditional; scratch Zero in The Front and substitute with Mr. Jarre and a different high schooler...and now we've got the way Mr. Baxter did it. With music.
posted 01-29-2002 10:45 AM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	Soooooooooo, now we's all gonna take the 5th, huh? Nino Rota, anyone? What a bunch o' rats. Let's see who's on first to flee the country...Costa Rica, my heart's devotion...
posted 02-05-2002 12:02 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	How about we OVERSCORE it with Zimmer's Crimson Tide? Lot's of tense moments there. NP Crimson Tide [Message edited by HadrianD on 02-05-2002]
posted 02-05-2002 03:36 PM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	Tense, you say? Not after yesterday's fiasco. Not when the former President/CEO goes from known control freak to plausible denier & amnesiac under oath. A senator even characterized him as "Sgt. Schultz: 'I see nothing. I know nothing'". YES, JEFFREY SKILLING, THIS JERRY FIELDING/WILL SCHAEFER/FRED STEINER SCORE'S FOR YOU! ******************************************************************** [Message edited by Howard L on 02-08-2002]
posted 02-08-2002 03:49 PM PT (US)

Philipp Oscar® Winner	How about Danny Elfman´s A CIVIL ACTION? Philipp
posted 02-08-2002 04:02 PM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	Oh that's coming, give or take a year!
posted 02-08-2002 04:19 PM PT (US)

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