BruceH

Congratulations! You won't be sorry! Me, I got the new Benny Carter Proper.

Science fiction (at its best) is a literature of ideas. It's hard to SHOW or DRAMATIZE ideas. So many movies labled as science fiction are all about mindless action. For instance, Philip K. Dick, the current favorite sf writer of Hollywood (who'd have thunk it?)-----he was the ultimate explorer of paranoia, but his stories somehow become all about chase scenes and explosions on the big screen. Instead of giving us a sense of wonder, sf movies these days want to pummel us with special effects, take us on an amusement park thrill ride, which isn't the same thing. Sorry for belaboring the obvious.

Good one, Shawn! Speaking of film, how about Thomas Mitchell, one of the great Hollywood character actors from the 30's to the 50's. He was in Stagecoach, Only Angels Have Wings, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gone With the Wind, and High Noon, as well as a couple of Capra's better-known films, namely, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and It's A Wonderful Life. A dependable, always convincing actor.

My sense is that the Pulitzer for music will continue to be a joke.

No, not a fan of The Cure.

The whole family saw it yesterday. The vice-president was most assuredly a Cheney clone, which was pretty funny. This made for the most hilarious and unbelievable part of the film, when near the end the Cheney clone ADMITS HE WAS WRONG! One of my kids noted that the president in the movie was too smart to be realistic. ( ) Dennis Quaid's kid was pretty good, played by the new Tobey Maquire (Jake Gyllenhaal).

Drink, wasn't it?

Mmmmmm.... Sweet, sweet heroin.... I mean Mosaic!!!

I've got to admit, I really like Regeneration. To each his own.

It's been on my bookmark for a long time. Very good reference site.

I can very much dig it! Actually, the tour of the Krell complex is still one of my favorite parts of Forbidden Planet. I was thinking more of the part where the cook (Earl Holliman) get Robbie to synthesize hundreds of bottles of whiskey for him; it's supposed to be funny, but it's just a drag. And the romance between the Captain and Altaira is pretty lame too. This is all stuff that I plain just didn't notice as a kid; it's like my mind just edited them out. Really, when you're 10 or 11 and watch a movie on TV, there might be some parts you don't understand too well or are just sort of boring and they just don't REGISTER. You just don't remember them later. When I saw FB on the big screen at a repertory cinema at about the age of 28, the above sections seemed almost new to me---the stuff I remembered was all about the Krell and the action scenes. Still one of my favorites. If Hollywood could make a science fiction movie this good nowadays, I'd be very surprised, and I'd go see it three times. I'm not holding my breath though.

"KISS-108"----the horror! The horror!

Barenga!

Answering your question is kind of like trying to explain "What's so special about heroin?"

That Nessa-Warne Marsh album. Sounds good.

I must say YES to that! I like the score to that one as well. Dave---I agree that Forbidden Planet is the only other sf film from the 50's that stands out from the crowd. For decades it was my second favorite behind only Day The Earth Stood Still. But time hasn't been as kind to Forbidden Planet. I still have a lot of affection for it, but I'd have to say that it doesn't hold up as well.

Actually, the most surprising thing was that his liver started to freak out. None of the doctors predicted that.

Donald Trump---the poor man's Monty Burns.

Who's that white guy with the alto?

I've just now started picking up some Sonny Criss, don't ask me why I've waited so long. Why HAVE you waited so long?

Giddins did a final column ("Flee As A Bird," in the December 15, 2003 Voice) in which he basically said, "It's time." But friends of mine have speculated that smaller wordage limits at the Voice may have also had something to do with it.

I hope his brain is OK.

"Allaboutjazz"----the poor man's Organissimo?

It is, but we love you anyway.