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Kind of unusual for a singer's album -- she does not even appear on several tracks which spotlight the trumpeters involved (Wallace Roney, Tom Harrell, Lew Soloff and Roy Hargrove). Tom Harrrell has "Joy Spring" all to himself while Kenny Barron is the sole performer on "Memories of You".

Well, I have not seen Dazed and Confused, so i didn't have any expectations built up for this movie. I plan on watching D&C "someday", as I have heard good things about it. I also liked Boyhood by the same director. I have read that he also considers this film as a kind of "spiritual sequel" to that film, since that one ends with the boy/man going off to college and this one begins with a boy/man arriving for his first year of college. I could see some one not liking this movie. I would have been kind of "meh" about it, but I thought the denouement regarding the central character helped push it into the "like" column. Not "strongly like" or "love", but "like" nonetheless. I guess the nostalgia factor also played a part in my enjoyment of this movie. I would have been in the same age group as these characters in 1980, so the clothes, cars and music all brought back some pleasant memories of college days long gone.

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Disc 2 of 2, which contains this album (plus 3 bonus tracks)

A question for all those who did not like Roger Moore as James Bond. Say you were Cubby Broccoli -- Sean Connery has made it clear he will not be doing any more Bond movies. You tried casting an unknown in the role and that was resoundingly rejected by the public. (It's been many years since I've seen OHMSS, but I recall thinking George Lazenby was not that bad at all.). If not Roger Moore, then who would you have cast as James Bond in 1972? Would you have tried to groom another unknown in the role? What other "known" actors would have been available? Michael Caine? He'd already done three Harry Palmer movies and probably was not keen to be tied to another spy film series character? Another British actor? Oliver Reed? Michael York? Albert Finney? An American actor affecting a British accent perhaps? Maybe you could have persuaded Dick Van Dyke to take on the role and revive his British accent which was soooo beloved by film audiences. But seriously, if not Roger Moore, then who? (My own preference would have been for Christopher Lee to have been the original Bond instead of Sean Connery. I think he would have been quite good in that role, but by 1972, he would have perhaps been a bit too old for it.)

Keynote High Note One that is always a pain to try to spell correctly (and I'm sure was a pain for radio DJs to try to pronounce correctly) was/is Chiaroscuro.

Disc 2 of 2

Nothing very profound, but I enjoyed it.

Probably the only country album that kicks off with a version of "The Blues Walk".

I have watched the first 6 episodes and so far I would give it an overall grade of B-. I do not like the new Gypsy at all. I'm sure it might be seen as kind of sexist now that the only "feminine" character in the original cast (until Pearl Forrester showed up) was kind of dim, but I liked having one character on the show who was sort of sweet and not full of snark. (Plus, Gypsy was the greatest thing to happen for Richard Basehart since Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea went off the air.). The new Gypsy, although still not seen all that much, is just another smart-alecky robot. I am undecided about the new "test subject", "Jonah Heston". He hasn't made much of an impression on me one way or the other yet. I do like Patton Oswalt as "TV's son of TV's Frank" and wish he were used a little more. There was a funny cameo by Jerry Seinfeld in one episode. The quality of the jokes has been uneven. A few of the lines have definitely been LOL funny and they have made some references to classic lines from the old series ("Watch out for snakes!", "SLEEEEP!" and even a reference to Rowsdower). They do seem to be relying on more fart jokes than I recall being used in the original shows. Maybe the movies they are using now are more "dialog heavy", but it also seems that the jokes are not as fast and frequent because they don't want to talk over the dialog of the movie. The skits in-between segments of the movies have not been all that great. If nothing else, I did finally get to see Avalanche, a 1970's disaster movie starring Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow (with all the blazing onscreen passion you might well imagine from that pairing) that I never got around to seeing before.