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Round-up By Jon & Al Kaplan, et al What’s on the way. 6 Now Playing FEATURES Movies and CDs in release. 12 Battle Plans It started with a pair of lesbians. 7 New Assignments John Frizzell and Randy Edelman talk about their collabora- 14 Who’s writing what tive efforts in scoring the epic Civil War production of Gods for whom. and Generals, the prequel to Gettysburg. 8 In Concert By Daniel Schweiger Film music performed around the globe. 14 Take the Red Pill It’s all things Matrix for Don Davis lately, as he focuses his tal- 9 Mail Bag ents on two gigantic theatrical productions and nine Internet Nice Hobbit. mini-features. All this and he still has time to explain post- modernism. 11 Pukas By Jeff Bond Unctious Underscore. 19 Arrakis Attack Score 33 Whether writing ethnic textures for the Sci-Fi Channel’s 19 Spicy stuff on Sci-Fi. The latest CD reviews, Children of Dune, action music for The Hunted, or cues for the including: The Recruit, Tooth Fairy in Darkness Falls, one thing’s for sure: Brian Tyler is Re-Animator, It’s Always working a lot. Fair Weather, Gods and By Jeff Bond Generals and more. 22 Call Forth the Mutants 45 Laserphile Directing Urban Legends 2 kept him from being able to com- Spring Has Sprung. pose the score for The X-Men. This time around, John Ottman is keeping his schedule open for Bryan Singer’s sequel. By Jeff Bond 36 FSM Marketplace 45 Still hot, even on DVD. ON THE COVER: MMMM! Film Score Monthly (ISSN 1077-4289) is published 10 times a year (with double issues in May/June and November/December) for $36.95 per year by Vineyard Haven LLC., 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232. Periodicals postage paid at Culver City, CA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Film Score Monthly, 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 FILM SCORE MONTHLY 1 FEBRUARY 2003 v8n3 issueB.qxd 4/8/03 12:38 PM Page 2 EDITORIAL Dumb Luck VOLUME 8 FSM's fearless leader radically applies NUMBER 3 the concept of "taste" to film music discussion. Editor & Publisher his month our cover story is a list of the last shot of Ponch and Jon, and then LUKAS KENDALL Managing Editor film music’s “great moments.” In launches into the theme with the disco gui- TIM CURRAN T other words, we’re in the magazine tars. That’s not even mundane, that’s down- Executive Editor business, where somehow an annual “Top right awful! But I love it. JONATHAN Z. KAPLAN 100” list of rich people that Forbes started has I suppose “memorable moments” are like Editor-at-large become “It” lists, A-lists and power lists as far fingerprints, unique to each person. A great JEFF BOND as the eye can see. (Maybe cooking magazines deal of them are age-dependent—I’ve often Design Director have a Top 100 list of ingredients—number held that people get into film music at an JOE SIKORYAK one: flour!) Major League Baseball recently early age, usually through genre material, be Mr. Helper released its “Memorable Moments” in which it with Gunga Din or The Magnificent Seven or Star AL KAPLAN half the entries weren’t even “moments” but Wars or Gladiator. If you’re 13 and bored and Copyeditor generalized happenings, like a player having a one day you see an awesome movie star STEVE GILMARTIN Contributing Writers good year. Western culture likes lists. killing people while great music plays—that’s DOUG ADAMS Our FSM list of great “moments” has only a your gold standard. According to Freud, every ALTOMARI few examples that I would have personally boy grows up seeking the image of his mother STEPHEN ARMSTRONG selected—and yet I know exactly what the list in other women. (Freud didn’t bother much SCOTT BETTENCOURT is all about. A few years ago I was feeling with what women seek, a problem which ANDY DURSIN depressed—a period which has lasted from extends to film music fandom.) I think every ANDREW GRANADE roughly 1983 to today—and was griping to a boy grows up wanting to be the James Bond MARK GRIFFIN friend that I didn’t know why I should even or Luke Skywalker he saw killing people on STEVEN A. KENNEDY care about movies, or good TV shows, or TV when he was 13. And that music is the DARREN MACDONALD music. “Because they’re about life!” he said. music of his life. Or mine, anyway. DANIEL SCHWEIGER And they are. Human beings need relation- There’s no accounting for taste, someone CARY WONG ships for emotional and mental health, and once said, and it’s true. So it is with film Editorial & Subscriptions part of that sustenance comes from art and music’s “memorable moments.” They’re 8503 Washington Blvd storytelling—from feelings and ideas and about age and access and the plain dumb Culver City, CA 90232 truths about life, big or small. I have always luck of what anyone happened to see or PH. 310-253-9595 loved film music because for fleeting little hear at a seminal moment in life—but FAX 310-253-9588 moments, my three favorite artistic forms (sto- they’re also about taste. Why do I like E-MAIL [email protected] rytelling, visual images and music) intersect to vanilla but not chocolate? Salmon but not create powerful—well, moments. Think of the shrimp? Morricone but not Nascimbene? I Sales & Marketing Manager shark hunt in Jaws, a fairly long sequence. The don’t know—but why “The Ecstasy of Gold” BOB HEBERT exact moment I have always loved is when from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly isn’t on our 8503 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232 Quint is shooting the first barrel into the list is truly puzzling. [Guess we just didn’t PH. 323-962-6077 shark, and the crew is scrambling to rig the grow up watching Eli Wallach kill enough FAX 310-253-9588 equipment—that precise instant when John people! —The Kaplans] Supervising Mail Order Handler Williams changes from pounding suspense Love, MAILMAN AL into the joyful sea shanty of the chase. Our Website I could list dozens more of my own favorite Is updated five times weekly! moments, but many would seem mundane. Point your browser at: There’s a lot of Star Trek in there. 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