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T.D.

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  1. Remarkable! I'm not ashamed that I didn't guess.
  2. Funny. I never could have guessed it, but as soon as I read the answer, said "yeah, sure!". Used to love those Truffaut films, but it was decades ago...
  3. George Wallington Giacinto Scelsi Marc Ribot
  4. Nothing more than a curiosity, but Wayne Gretzky's teenage son just signed with the Cubbies.
  5. Excellent one! The car was a total fake-out! I got the answer by Google, but too late...
  6. Phil Spector? (going from the vanity plate)
  7. Correct! The other two pictured are Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington. The pic was part of an interesting Sports Illustrated story sometime in the past year or two [added: 2009, link to story].
  8. Nope...The movie I mentioned above should provide a hint.
  9. GA, the interesting thing I recall from the "Once...West" DVD commentary is that CC grew up in Tunisia (!), and didn't learn to speak Italian until she moved to Italy and began appearing in films. I'd never have thunk it! Here's a pretty easy one...the dude on the left (others are noteworthy in their own right...)
  10. Claudia Cardinale? [big fan of Once Upon a Time in the West, recently rented it and watched for the umpteenth time. She figured in some of the bonus feature commentary, interesting history.]
  11. Very cool and surprisingly Earthlike. Reminds me of some of the landscapes in the movie No Country For Old Men...half expected to see Javier Bardem with a weird-ass haircut blowing somebody's brains out...
  12. Big Daddy Lipscomb Idi Amin Dada Irene Papas
  13. I recently saw the film Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him?). Jimmy Webb is one of the main talking heads in the documentary.Happy birthday!
  14. I've never paid much attention to Mr. Rose, but my understanding is that he played a significant role in documenting the Joyce Hatto fraud (I won't go any further there... ), and I give him credit for that.
  15. Damn...I would have gotten Curley Russell, but wasn't paying attention.
  16. Thanks. Babayan has been on my list to hear. I liked posted samples, and have had pretty good experience with recordings on the Pro Piano label.
  17. You all are probably objectively correct about Scarlatti harpsichord. It's just my personal taste, which is doubtless bad, but I have trouble listening to solo harpsichord music for extended periods of time (as a continuo instrument it doesn't bug me so much). After listening to Haskil and Tipo, I don't think either is the last word on piano. Will try Zacharias and maybe Pletnev, but CD purchasing is on hiatus for a while...
  18. I checked the Troupe and Chambers books at home (didn't bring them in to work, so can't quote exactly). There was another quote in the autobiography (just after the one I gave above) that gives support to Stockhausen's influence being via "process". Something to the effect of "through Stockhausen I understood music as a process of elimination and addition. Like before you can say 'yes' you have to have said 'no'..." I don't know enough Stockhausen to say which specific "process pieces" might apply here. The most obvious "addition and subtraction" process piece I can think of is Frederic Rzewski's "Attica" "Coming Together". Chambers also says that Buckmaster gave Miles recordings of "Mixtur" and "Telemusik", as well as several cassettes (contents not specified). He further writes that Stockhausen was in the Columbia studios with Miles in 1980 (Chicago area), but that the resulting material (unspecified) has never been released.
  19. I may be able to dig some Stockhausen info up at home (I have some Miles books). Here's an academic passage I googled, though I don't find it very informative... Another passage here: Miles Davis, whose later albums make extensive use of studio techniques, paid homage to Stockhausen’s influence in his works. In his autobiography, he wrote that “I had always written in a circular way and through Stockhausen I could see that I didn’t want to ever play again from eight bars to eight bars, because I never end songs: they just keep going on. Through Stockhausen I understood music as a process of elimination and addition.” The collage-like quality of music from the ‘Electric Miles’ period was said to stem directly from his reaction to Hymnen and several of Stockhausen’s non-electronic pieces. Inspired by passages in Miles's autobiography (the Quincy Troupe book), I once (years ago) looked for Buckmaster material on the web and found basically nothing. Thanks for the above tips.
  20. Wow, that's a tough one, GA! I was able to Google the answer given your hints, but won't give spoilers because I'd otherwise have had no clue.
  21. Just finished A Dead Man in Deptford, historical novel by Anthony Burgess about the life and death of Christopher Marlowe. So I've started Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Never read anything by Marlowe before.
  22. I've seen 'em both lots of times (annual cable TV "Godfather" marathons), to the point where I've gotten a bit sick of Mafia flicks. I like II a lot more, but it's just personal taste and the original is certainly excellent. I guess I find the sequel much more wide-ranging and sweeping, with Michael's life following a sort of tragic trajectory. The original may be stronger photographically, but it seems more a straightforward narrative (especially since I read the book before the film was made) and less complex. [Added] Though I prefer the sequel, I want to stress that the original is a classic film. IMO the "Sicilian Vespers" sequence, where Michael's godson's baptism is overlaid with rubouts of all Michael's rivals ("Michael Corleone, do you renounce Satan?") is one of the greatest in cinema.
  23. Conn Smythe Patty Smyth John McEnroe
  24. Right! That didn't take long! (Maybe not a great choice, since the pic was from a UK commercial campaign... )
  25. Sorry, but since nobody spoke up:
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