Original Music Soundtracks for Motion Pictures and TV V OLUME 5, NUMBER 2 The Good, the Bad, and the Oscars... page 19 ANY GIVEN COMPOSER Oliver Stone’s Score-O-Matic CD REVIEWS An Uncommonly Positive Batch! JERRYJERRY FIELDINGFIELDING A 20th AAnniversary 20th ReminiscenceAnniversary Tribute Ht: 0.816", Wd: 1.4872", Mag: 80% BWR: 1 $4.95 U.S. • $5.95 Canada CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2000 cover story departments 24 Music by Jerry Fielding 2 Editorial On the 20th anniversary of the legendary Words of wisdom composer’s passing, we reminisce about his work and its impact. 4 News By Nick Redman George Duning, awards and more 28 Twenty Years Gone 5 Record Label Camille Fielding remembers Jerry. Round-up What’s on the way 6 Now Playing Movies and CDs in Twenty years after his death, he f e a t u r e s release remains a one-of-a-kind. 8 Concerts page 24 Live performances 19 The Good, the Bad around the globe and the Oscars 10 Upcoming Film How shall we remember the soundtracks of Assignments 1999? 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Short but sweet 45 Score Internationale Sexy shorts, socialist injuns and Strassenfeger 48 Retrograde The Statman has spoken 15 Reader Ads 37 Marketplace Our kings of the review weigh in on the scores of 1999. page 19 ON THE COVER: A PORTRAIT OF JERRY; orIGINAL Pen AND INK DRAWING FroM the Film Score Monthly (ISSN 1077-4289) is published monthly for $36.95 per year by Vineyard Haven LLC., FIELDING hoME, coUrteSY CAMILLe FIELDING 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 2000 EDITOR I AL V O L U M E 5 N U M ber 2 FEBRUARY 2000 Double Plus Good editorial staff THIS MONTH, FSM OFFERS WORDS OF WISDOM EDITOR & PUBLISHER Lukas Kendall SENIOR EDITOR elcome to our special C.H. be allowed to run our mouths off, too. 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The Best Carter (William Holden) and the Soundtrack award went to the Tarzan album, with songs by Phil unsettling effect his arrival has Collins and score by Mark Mancina. The Grammy for Best Song for on the women of a small Kansas Motion Picture or Television went to Madonna and William Orbit for town. Picnic is best remembered “Beautiful Stranger” from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. for its famous dance scene, in which Carter and Madge Owens BAFTA (Kim Novak) first acknowledge he British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA) their mutual attraction. Through Tnominees were announced recently. The Anthony Asquith Award stunning use of counterpoint, for Achievement in Film Music nominees are: Duning blended the ’30s tune Thomas Newman for American Beauty “Moonglow” with his own Picnic Ry Cooder and Nick Gold for Buena Vista Social Club love theme to create an indelibly Michael Nyman for The End of the Affair romantic ’50s screen moment. In Gabriel Yared for The Talented Mr. Ripley a 1996 interview, Duning recalled The award show will take place April 30 in Cardiff, Wales. eorge Duning, the that it took him “four or five man responsible for days” to work out the sequence. Film & TV Music Conference Gthe sound of some of “And after all these years,” he he Hollywood Reporter and the Society of Composers and Columbia Pictures’ top films of added, “that number still turns TLyricists present The 5th Annual Film & TV Music Conference: the 1950s, died Sunday, February up on my ASCAP statement.” The State of the Art. The event will take place Saturday, April 8, at the 27, at Alavarado Hospital in San For Picnic, Duning received a DGA Theatre Complex, 7920 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. Diego. He was 92. Down Beat magazine award Visit www.hollywoodreporter.com/film/conference.asp or call 323-525-2121. Duning’s most celebrated score and the fourth of five Academy was for Joshua Logan’s 1955 Award nominations.