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Music Soundtracks for Motion Pictures and Television V OLUME 4, NUMBER 7 Iron Mike Kamen Page 29 TTinyinyTTuunene TTiittaans!ns! MeetMeet thethe teamteam behindbehind WaWarnerrner BrothersBrothers AnimationAnimation scoringscoring BABATTLESTARTTLESTAR GALACTICAGALACTICA Up-to-the-centonUp-to-the-centon chatchat withwith StuStu PhillipsPhillips BBUFFY’SUFFY’S BOLEROSBOLEROS MusicMusic toto slayslay vampiresvampires byby 07> 7225274 93704 $4.95 U.S. • $5.95 Canada CONTENTS AUGUST 1999 features departments 22 Tiny Tune Titans 2 Editorial Arrivederci Animaniacs, bye-bye Batman, so-long Making Dreams Superman... We salute the second golden age of Come True Warner Bros. animation scoring. By Jeff Bond 4News Laurence Rosenthal Gets the Nod, and more 29 Iron Mike 5 Record Label Michael Kamen gives us the lowdown on his Round-up terrific new kid flick, The Iron Giant, and a What’s on the way new composition for the Millennium. 6Now Playing If you see one movie this summer, By Jeff Bond Movies and CDs in make sure it’s not... you know. release page 29 7 Concerts 32 A Return, or A New Hope? Live performances What are those familiar strains on multiplexes around the world everywhere? Here’s a dissection of John 9 Upcoming Film Williams’s themes for Episode One. Assignments By Doug Adams Who’s writing what 11 Mail Bag Two Slices of H20 interviews 15 In Concert Regaining Composure 30 Beat Guy Long-time percussionist Emil Richards is 17 TV Downbeat Hollywood’s different drummer. Fangs for the Memories You gotta love, love, love By Doug Adams Glen A. Larson’s vision. 36 Score page 35 Pocket reviews of The 35 View From the Bridge Red Violin, Rambo II, Stu Phillips steps back to the podium to Song of Bernadette, re-record his epic score to a TV show from many, summer song CDs, and many yahrens ago. lots more. By Eric Lichtenfeld 48 Retrograde There’s Something About ASCAP 14 Reader Ads 38 FSM Marketplace Uh huh, they’ve got awards on their minds. page 48 ON THE COVER: THE MORE MELODIES, THE MERRIER. ARTWORK ©1999 WARNER BROS Film Score Monthly (ISSN 1077-4289) is published monthly for $36.95 per year by Lukas Kendall. ANIMATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City CA 90232. Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, CA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send Address changes to Film Score Monthly, 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City CA 90232 FILM SCORE MONTHLY 1 AUGUST 1999 EDITORIAL VOLUME 4 NUMBER 7 AUGUST 1999 Making Dreams Come True staff WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO EDITOR & PUBLISHER TAKE A PASSION FOR FILM MUSIC AND TURN IT INTO AN Lukas Kendall ENTERPRISE FOR FUN AND PROFIT? MANAGING EDITOR Jeff Bond DESIGN DIRECTOR Joe Sikoryak his is one of those fun editorials to will be a Jerry Goldsmith western. We have write, because I can share with you a half dozen things in production at any CONTRIBUTING WRITERS T all the cool new stuff we’re doing. given time, and we hope to release them one Doug Adams First off, we’ve moved from Wilshire Blvd. after the other for hungry collectors. Cynthia Boris (in the heart of Los Angeles) to Culver City Jonathan Broxton (near the appendix and spleen of Los Wait, There’s More Andy Dursin Angeles). Now we’re down the street from We’ve been promising the second edition of Jon Kaplan Sony Pictures Studios. We outgrew our tiny Robert L. Smith’s Soundtracks on CD Price Eric Lichtenfeld corner in the suite we have shared for Guide for years (literally), and that too is in James Southall the past two years with the Los Angeles the final stages of production. The first edi- Jesus Weinstein Independent Film tion covered CDs released up through 1994, COPYEDITOR F estival and which means this next one will have an addi- Steve Gilmartin Filmmaker maga- tional five years’ worth of information. It’s PUBLISHING CONSULTANT zine, and besides amazing to see the stuff that has come out— Digital Film & Print, Inc. which, we wanted between then and now, some of the greatest THANKS TO to be closer to film music of all time has gone from frus- B.A. Vimtrup liquor stores, dis- tratingly unavailable to at-our-fingertips. count furniture It’s a terrific time to be a collector. outlets and used- You’ll also notice that our publishing com- contact info car salesmen. pany this month has gone from just me, As many of you Lukas Kendall, to Vineyard Haven, LLC. EDITORIAL & SUBSCRIPTIONS know, Film Score Yes, after years of scoffing at the foolish 8503 Washington Blvd Monthly was some- implications of doing business as individu- Culver City CA 90232 BACK IN THE DAY: The editor regards thing I started as a als, we’ve incorporated and chosen the name PHONE 310-253-9595 this magazine’s humble beginnings. fan club in 1990 of my home town on Martha’s Vineyard. FAX 310-253-9588 (while a student in (Actually I lived in West Tisbury, but we got E-MAIL lukas@ high school), so in our mail through Vineyard Haven, at good filmscoremonthly.com the last decade I’ve published out of my par- old RFD 488.) ents’ den, various college dorm rooms, a tiny It’s fun to look around our office and see ADVERTISING L.A. apartment not fit for rats, and finally, all the little pieces of reality that started as Bob Hebert from a suite with two other businesses. It’s a crazy ideas—from our ever-growing number 8503 Washington Blvd blast to have, at long last, an office of our of CDs, to all the stories published in FSM Culver City CA 90232 own—and it’s probably the only office in the (check out the Warner animation scoring PHONE 213-382-8512 world where you’ll find weird stuff like a piece this month—it’s fantastic), to Jeff FAX 310-253-9588 framed 100 Rifles movie poster, while the Bond’s book, The Music of Star Trek—to say sounds of some obscure blaxploitation flick nothing of our burgeoning web site, OUR WEB SITE gently waft in the air. www.filmscoremonthly.com. So I think we Is updated five times weekly! have a pretty outstanding track record of Point your browser at: Now Hear This making stuff happen, and there’s more to Even more exciting, we’ve met our goal of come! WWW.FILMSCOREMONTHLY.COM releasing a CD every issue in our Silver Age Thanks for your continuing support! and Golden Age Classics series. We didn’t set © 1999 Vineyard Haven LLC. out to have such a preponderance of western scores, but somehow it’s ended up that way: PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. our latest this month is The Comancheros, a sterling Elmer Bernstein effort for John Wayne; the next Silver Age Classics release Lukas Kendall AUGUST 1999 2 FILM SCORE MONTHLY Scenes from the World Wide Web FS Your one-shop stop for film music on the Internet get hooked here Daily columns, links, secure-server ordering, CD sound clips and more With respect to the memory of Saul Bass We're not just doing the magazine online here! www.filmscoremonthly.com EVENTS • CONCERTS RECORD LABEL ROUND-UP UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS NEWS THE LATEST FILMS Contact the Hollywood Roosevelt Entertainment’s new laserdisc. Hotel at 323-466-7000 for special con- ference rates; see the Society’s web site Look for some of the rare and obscure at www.filmmusicsociety.org. items mentioned in these pages from the soundtrack specialty dealers: Screen Archives (540-635-2575), DVD/Laserdiscs Intrada (510-336-1612), STAR (717- 656-0121), Footlight Records (212- erry Goldsmith’s complete 533-1572) and Super Collector (714- Jscore to The Mummy will be 636-8700) in this country. isolated on the DVD release this fall from Universal. Columbia/Tri-Star is releasing Polling Places a special edition DVD of The Dark Crystal (1982) which will he FSM website continues feature an isolated audio track of Tto collect trivial informa- Trevor Jones’s score, a fantastic tion for your amusement. Here symphonic effort. are the results of some recent Laurence Rosenthal Gets the Nod On the laserdisc front, Image surveys: Entertainment is releasing a he Film Music Society cooperation with Soundelux on double-bill widescreen edition of For the majority of soundtracks will present its Seventh Saturday. The opening keynote two ‘60s sci-fi flicks: Last Man on in your collection, have you... T Annual International address will be given by film Earth (with isolated Paul Sawtell Film Music Conference at the music historian Clifford McCarty. score, in mono) and Panic in Year Seen the movie 735 votes 73 % Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on On Wednesday, conference Zero (with mono Les Baxter Not seen the movie 265 votes 26 % September 15-18, culminating attendees are invited to attend music and effects track). There 1000 total with the presentation of the the luncheon of the American will also be an isolated music and Society’s 15th Career Society of Music Arrangers and effects track on X! The Man with Which score deserved to win Achievement Award to composer Composers (ASMAC) which will the X-Ray Eyes (scored by the Oscar in 1959? Laurence Rosenthal at a gala din- feature a talk by Laurence Baxter), coming on laserdisc. ner on Saturday night, September Rosenthal. There will also be a Johnny Mandel’s score to Ben-Hur 512 votes 81 % 18. Intrada records is producing a panel discussion on new sound- Caddyshack is isolated with The Diary of Anne Frank 55 votes 8 % commemorative CD and video track releases.