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Lander, Bob Balaban, Rob Reiner, JaneJane Lynch,Lynch, JohnJohn MichaelMichael Higgins,Higgins, 04> Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand, Diane Keaton, Anthony Newley, Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Jamie Lee Curtis, 7225274 93704 Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Wolfman Jack, $4.95 U.S. • $5.95 Canada JoeJoe DiMaggio,DiMaggio, OliverOliver North,North, Fawn Hall, Nick Nolte, Nastassja Kinski all mentioned inside! v8n4 covers.qxd 5/13/03 1:58 PM Page c2 On August 19th, all of Hollywood will be reading music. spotting editing composing orchestration contracting dubbing sync licensing music marketing publishing re-scoring prepping clearance music supervising musicians recording studios Summer Film & TV Music Special Issue. August 19, 2003 Music adds emotional resonance to moving pictures. And music creation is a vital part of Hollywood’s economy. Our Summer Film & TV Music Issue is the definitive guide to the music of movies and TV. It’s part 3 of our 4 part series, featuring “Who Scores Primetime,” “Calling Emmy,” upcoming fall films by distributor, director, music credits and much more. It’s the place to advertise your talent, product or service to the people who create the moving pictures. So make a “sound” business decision. Place your ad today. SPACE DEADLINE: July 31 • MATERIALS DEADLINE: August 6 L.A. - Judi Pulver, (323) 525-2026 • UK - John Kania, (44-207) 420-6144 N.Y. - John Troyan (646) 654-5624 v8n04 issue 5/13/03 1:59 PM Page 1 CONTENTS APRIL/MAY 2003 DEPARTMENTS COVER STORY 2 Editorial 24 The Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever Blasphemy! Harry Shearer and Michael McKean—who along with Christopher Guest comprise the legendary band Spinal 4 News Tap—discuss their comedic and musical backgrounds, as Earle’s a Star; well as the satirical worlds of This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Farewell, Old Friends. Guffman and the recent A Mighty Wind. 5 Record Label By Jeff Bond Round-up What’s on the way. 28 A Mighty O’Toole 6 Now Playing Annette O’Toole talks about discovering her songwriting 14 He drove his composer Bananas. Movies and CDs in muse with husband Michael McKean. release. 7 New Assignments FEATURES Who’s writing what for whom. 12 Nature Into Music Having finished his orchestral soundscape to the BBC 8 Pukas series The Blue Planet, George Fenton is taking the show on Fights of Fancy. the road, conducting his music to picture worldwide. By Simon Duff 9 Mail Bag I Like The Mummy... 14 Nobody Does It Better In his first-ever interview with FSM, Marvin Hamlisch 33 Score chats about his amazing and varied career, from his earliest A variety of old and scoring job for Burt Lancaster’s The Swimmer, to working new CD reviews, with Woody Allen and writing songs for Barbra Streisand. 24 Got hair in all the wrong places, uh huh. including: Daredevil, By Mark Griffin The Life of David Gale, The Guys, Sunset Boulevard, 17 The New Stuff five Bond reissues and Former Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago is taking his rock and more. roll roots to the scoring stage. By Stephen Armstrong 45 Pocket Reviews 18 From Lukas With Love FSM’s esteemed publisher provides a crash course in 36 FSM Marketplace soundtrack restoration and recounts his recent project: the EMI Bond re-releases (first of two parts). By Lukas Kendall 30 Babes & Brits 30 And the Oscar goes to...? Ed Shearmur keeps busy (and continues to avoid typecasting) with the summer blockbuster Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and the spy spoof Johnny English. ON THE COVER: Break Like the Wind, part deux By Jeff Bond 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 APRIL/MAY 2003 v8n04 issue 5/13/03 1:59 PM Page 2 EDITORIAL Blasphemy! VOLUME 8 Song in film isn’t necessarily bad, and we’re gonna prove it. NUMBER 4 know when some of you see the cover Mighty Wind are great examples of that. Here Editor & Publisher of this issue and see the faces of Harry the songs are not only (in most cases) writ- LUKAS KENDALL Managing Editor I Shearer and Michael McKean (among ten especially for the movie, they contribute TIM CURRAN others) staring out at you instead of some vital plot and character points, they’re hilar- Executive Editor “real” film composer you’re going to be ious, and the movie really focuses on them. JONATHAN Z. KAPLAN shouting “boo!”...but I submit that you are in Plus a lot of them are good songs! Editor-at-Large actuality shouting “BOOOUUURNS!” After I have listened to Harry Shearer’s radio JEFF BOND all, if you had the chance to have a lengthy program Le Show on and off for years, but I Design Director chat with the man behind The Simpsons’ Mr. never fully appreciated his songwriting JOE SIKORYAK Burns, Smithers, and Ned Flanders, wouldn’t genius until the media frenzy surrounding Supervising Content Consultant you? the death of JFK, Jr. in a plane accident. It AL KAPLAN “Music in film” is a pretty broad defini- was sort of a miniature version of the Copyeditor tion, but that having been said, we inten- worldwide mourning for Princess Diana— STEVE GILMARTIN Contributing Writers tionally ignore a huge percentage of music two celebrities who were, I’m sure, perfectly STEPHEN ARMSTRONG written for (or applied to) film in FSM. I have fine human beings that people devoted rel- SCOTT BETTENCOURT to explain this to publicists all the time— atively little thought to until they died, SIMON DUFF ‘No ma’am, we don’t cover songs or rock when they suddenly all became our best ANDREW GRANADE groups in the magazine…nope, just the friends. Shearer performed a song about this MARK GRIFFIN underscore…that’s the music that plays in that perfectly punctured the pretensions of LUKE GOLJAN the background…like John Williams, right.’ this mass mourning, with one line (“it feels NICK JOY We know our audience pretty well, and so good to hurt so bad”) that just struck me STEVEN A. KENNEDY we think we have quite good philosophical as ingenious. Shearer wasn’t making light of DARREN MACDONALD reasons for not covering songs in FSM. For anyone’s death, just the fatuous “me too” IAN D. THOMAS one thing, whether they’re written before, fake suffering that surrounded it. GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS CARY WONG during or after the movie-making process, When I saw Waiting for Guffman a second DEBORAH YOUNG-GROVES “soundtrack album” songs rarely have any- time, knowing that Shearer had worked on thing to do with the movie. 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