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Returning to Hollywood November 19-20 2003 For info& to register: www.billboardevents.com or 646.654.4660 presented by v8n7issue.qxd 9/2/03 6:51 PM Page 1 CONTENTS AUGUST 2003 DEPARTMENTS COVER STORY 2 Editorial 20 Sex, Lions and Audiotape “There’s No More Heroes FSM catches up with one of the good guys, the refreshingly Left in the World.” cheerful and talented Patrick Doyle, as he scores Secondhand Lions and Calendar Girls. 4 News By Nick Joy If It Ain’t Broke... 5 Record Label Round-up FEATURES What’s on the way. 5 Now Playing 12 Earning His Spurs Spurs and saddles! Movies and CDs in Back in the saddle again? Hardly. Michael Kamen jumps 12 release. onto his first western film score, for Kevin Costner’s 6 Concerts Open Range. Film music performed By Jeff Bond around the globe. 7 Upcoming Film 15 A Matter of Honor Assignments Movies, shmovies. Chris Lennertz proves with the Who’s writing what videogame Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault that you don’t have for whom. to work on a feature film to write for a real orchestra. 8 On the Air By Jeff Bond Soundtrack radio shows. 18 Better Than a Dream 8 Pukas For over 30 years, Betty Comden and Adoph Green wrote The Appleseed Saga, the music and lyrics for some of theater and television’s Part 1. best-known productions. Here, Ms. Comden tells us just what made their collaboration so special. 9 Mail Bag By Mark Griffin 18 Song and dance! A Nice Concert. 24 Scores to Settle 11 Downbeat There’s a lot more to preserving and remastering film Not Your Typical music and sound than meets the ear. How about Dolby Chick Flicks. Surround? Pro Logic? MP3s? DTS? PCM? 24/96? Confused? Yeah, us too. 29 Score By Nicholas Sheffo The latest CD reviews. 44 Laserphile Eeeeeeeeeek! 36 FSM Marketplace 44 Spooks and scares! ON THE COVER: Patrick I; photo by Benjamin Ealovega. Film Score Monthly (ISSN 1077-4289) is published ten 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 AUGUST 2003 v8n7issue.qxd 9/3/03 2:23 PM Page 2 EDITORIAL “There’s No More VOLUME 8 Heroes Left in the World” NUMBER 7 ounger FSM readers: Can you imagine son you’re genuinely excited about? Because I’ll tell EDITORIAL STAFF what it must have been like to be alive in you, the only person I’m excited about is the new Editor & Publisher Y the ’60s? Witnessing Elmer Bernstein at the Howard Shore, who was always a great composer, LUKAS KENDALL peak of his powers? Alex North writing some of the and has now been reborn a genius. But set that aside Executive Editor best film music of all time for Spartacus and for the sake of argument because he’s in his 50s. JONATHAN Z. KAPLAN Cleopatra? Jerry Goldsmith coming into his own with Who are the voices of the future? Managing Editor one unstoppable score after the next? John Frizzell, Ed Shearmur, Clint Mansell, TIM CURRAN Barry on Bond? Morricone westerns? David Julyan, The Dannas, Elia Cmiral, Design Director Or how about the ’70s, when film Christophe Beck, Marco Beltrami, Lisa JOE SIKORYAK music got its Jesus with John Gerrard, Teddy Castellucci, Brian Tyler and Supervising Content Consultant Williams, along with the emergence Media Ventures? AL KAPLAN of David Shire, Jerry Fielding, Michael I know that today’s film composing cli- Editor-at-Large JEFF BOND Small...even Bill Conti? mate is a very brutal one, so you don’t have Copyeditor I know what it’s like to be alive dur- to write in to tell me. I know that there’s a STEVE GILMARTIN ing the ’80s: John Williams could never chance that if Jerry Fielding and Alex North Contributing Writers go wrong; Goldsmith was still unstop- Do you smoke?! were breaking in today they may not have DOUG ADAMS pable; and out of the woodwork came landed a single job, and the same goes for STEPHEN ARMSTRONG one exciting newcomer after the next: Danny the fiery Jerry Goldsmith, who’d probably be selling ANDY DURSIN Elfman, Basil Poledouris, Bruce Broughton, Howard insurance somewhere. I know that composers are LUKE GOLJAN Shore, Alan Silvestri, James Horner, Michael Kamen, no longer handpicked and reared by other good ANDREW GRANADE Randy Newman, Craig Safan, Chris Young, Arthur B. composers like in the old days. I know that televi- MARK GRIFFIN Rubenstein. It was unreal. sion is no longer a proving ground but a wasteland. STEVEN A. KENNEDY In the ’90s, things slowly began to change. There I know that temp scores and test audiences and “too ANDREW KIRBY NICK JOY were new voices, but fewer: Thomas Newman, Elliot many cooks” syndrome are destroying creativity DARREN MACDONALD Goldenthal, James Newton Howard, Patrick Doyle, throughout Hollywood filmmaking. But I also know NICHOLAS SHEFFO the stinky but enjoyable Randy Edelman. that some of the blame does lie with the IAN D. THOMAS And there was also Hans Zimmer. I single out composers—the ones who have made it and don’t CARY WONG Zimmer because he was important then and he’s deserve to be there, but also the ones who haven’t important now. John Debney is also pretty impor- made it and never will. Because if today’s real com- BUSINESS STAFF tant. And it’s sad that they’re important, but they posers (and there have to be some) found a way to are. They represent two of the three largest factions win this particular lottery, we’d have some good Editorial & Subscriptions 8503 Washington Blvd in current film scoring. Zimmer’s once fresh and film music to look forward to. Culver City, CA 90232 now overwhelmingly constant sound competes with Either way, things will be okay for a while. PH. 310-253-9595 Thomas Newman’s to dominate Hollywood pic- Enough of the older generation is still alive and FAX 310-253-9588 tures. Debney’s influence is certainly a notch below kicking. What’s good about film music now is still E-MAIL [email protected] the other two, but he’s scoring more movies than really good, but what’s bad is such terrible, terrible Sales & Marketing Manager anyone else, and he also spearheaded a very specific shit. And while the newer guys appear to have very BOB HEBERT wave of generic imitation (similar to John Beal’s low ceilings, composers can and often do get better 8503 Washington Blvd trailer scoring) that has endured to this day. with age and experience. 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