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I hated the sound in the "new" edition of Ambersons. It sound like all the actors were looped. That may have been just in the theater in which I saw it . On the other hand I found the same thing in The English Patient and Walter Murch did the sound editing/mixing for both.

I once saw Bernard Hermann speak at the British Film Institute. Someone from the audience asked him how he could have gone along with the butchery of Ambersons. He replied "We (he and Wells) thought it was just a movie. We thought we were going to make lots of them." Given the later history of both Hermann and Welles it was one of the saddest statments I'd ever heard.

Saw this film at the festival yesterday. Arm, if you like these photos you're going to like the film.

For the last couple of decades he's been very active in the American Film Institute and did a lot of work advising younger filmmakers. My wife wrote a short film and had him as an advisor. A lovely gentleman and great filmmaker.

And many more!!!

That wasn't the govorner. That was Sen. Mary Landrieu. ← Ooops. My bad.

I saw her a lot: including getting ripped by Anderson Cooper for thanking all the other politicians for theri help.

Just yesterday I was saying to a friend that I knew it was trivial compared to everything else happening in New Orleans but I wondered if Herman Leonards negatives were safe. This morning I got the following e-mail from musician/ composer John Altman: > > Apologies for the tone - this was aimed at jazz fans rather than musicians- > but the sentiment is the same - I'm sure we all want to reach out to all the > affected at this time > > Many of you music fans will know and love the photographic work of Herman > Leonard. His defining pictures of the jazz greats - Charlie Parker, Billie > Holiday, Louis Armstrong etc etc have been justly celebrated worldwide. > Herman and his family lived in New Orleans - although they escaped, he has > lost everything. His negatives are in the musuem and may be safe (we won't > know for months I guess), but he has lost his darkroom, equipment, images, > prints, computer that has 10 years work stored on it etc.I am also > attempting to set up with the commitee a speedy benefit concert in LA to > raise some funds - I'd appreciate any help/suggestions etc at this time > either via e mail or on the phone at 310 871 9951 Here is an e mail I just > received > > Dear Family and Friends, > > We are writing to you on behalf of the LEONARD FAMILY HELP FUND. > > As many of you know, Herman Leonard, Shana Leonard, Stephen Smith and = > their daughter India were living in New Orleans, specifically in the = > Lakeview area, which is now well submerged in water in the wake of = > Hurricane Katrina. They were able to evacuate the city but their = > property has been flooded and their possessions destroyed. They left New = > Orleans with little more than the clothes on their back and will have to = > completely rebuild their lives. > > Amongst their possessions were all of India's expensive medical = > equipment. India is severely disabled with cerebral palsy and = > microcephaly. Although she is 10 years old, she is not able to walk, = > talk or feed herself, and requires 24-hour care. A lot of the equipment = > that is used on a daily basis they were forced to leave behind and it = > must be replaced as soon as possible. > > Many of you have been calling and asking how to help, which has meant a = > lot to them. Here is the way: LOVE AND CASH! (And not necessarily in = > that order). > > We have formed the LEONARD FAMILY HELP FUND to assist them in rebuilding = > their lives. Please feel free to contribute generously, but most = > importantly - no amount is too small. > > Please make the check payable to: > LEONARD FAMILY HELP FUND > > Send To: > Leonard Family Help fund > c/o Jo Winett > 10716 Esther Ave. > Los Angeles, CA 90064 > > Or you can pay via paypal: > leonardfamilyhelpfund@verizon.net > > We will be emailing you updates with news and progress. If you have any = > questions regarding this fund, or would like to help, please feel free = > to contact us. > > On behalf of the Leonard Family and ourselves, we sincerely thank you, > > Rana Joy Glickman, Jo Winett and Hillary Bratton > > Organizing committee contact info - > Rana Joy (323) 960-0080 rana.joy.glickman@shakrahfilms.com > Jo (310) 234-0268 jowinett@verizon.net > Hillary (650) 233-3747 hillary@brattyworld.com >

The latest nutty thing I've heard is that the National Guard was about to help evacuate Charity Hospital but turned around when they thought they were fired upon. So now volunteers are bringing boats to help out! The hospital is about 1/2 mile from the Guard staging area and the Convention Center is 12 blocks from the staging area. What kind of Natinoal Guard is that?! Who's in charge here? !! How incompetent are they?

I just read the following: "The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort, currently in Maryland, will be arriving in the Gulf of Mexico Sept. 8." SEPTEMBER 8!!!!!What kind of emergency reponse is that? Earlier I read that it's not even going to leave Baltimore for a few more days!!! What's going on? I love New Orleans and was planning to drive there with my son so I could intorduce him to The Big Easy. Given the plight of those who are there my disapointment is trivial but in my head I keep hearing Pops singing "Don't you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" Though weirdly enough as I type this I'm listening to Bill Frissell play "A Hard Rain's Going to Fall".

Anyone here have information/ideas/opinions about the best places to donate money to help out?

Yeah I did. Good stuff. I also ordered the soundtrack with a book and in doing so got a free 6 cut cd of a '63 Carnegie hall concert. I was around when all this was new but at the time didn't get Dylan. I was much more interested in Miles Davis and Jean-Luc Godard. I may be the only person in the world whose first Dylan Lp was Self Portrait.

As compared to spending billions invaiding a country that had nothing to do with slamming airplanes into US buildings? Thus saving bin laden-- a sworn enemy of Saddam-- the trouble of toppling him.

Maybe something could have been done. Here's a posting from the Huffington Post so obviously there's some bias but... Today's must-read article comes courtesy of E&P, which looks back at previous press warnings about the lack of federal dollars the Bush administration was sending to New Orleans as it scrambled to complete its hurricane protection levee system, which ultimately failed in the wake of Katrina. Why did funds stop flowing to the Big Easy? Simple, Bush's war in Iraq was costing too much money. There it is, in black and white. But the question is, what will the MSM do with this obvious news angle, particularly when Bush makes his inevitable sympathy tour of the devastated region in coming days. Here are some of the highlights from E&P: *"New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA. Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars." *" In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness." *" On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: “It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.”" *"The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in decades. In spite of that, the federal government came back this spring with the steepest reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history." *" One project that a contractor had been racing to finish this summer: a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main breach on Monday." *"The Newhouse News Service article published Tuesday night observed, "The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only to be opposed by the White House....In its budget, the Bush administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed $10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need." Local officials are now saying, the article reported, that had Washington heeded their warnings about the dire need for hurricane protection, including building up levees and repairing barrier islands, "the damage might not have been nearly as bad as it turned out to be."" [Emphasis added.]

I think if you get The Fox and Katanga you've got the complete recordings of Dupree Bolton.

Ooops. I counted wrong. I'm one of the people who cl;aimed more than 300 but I've actually only (only!?) got about 200. How do I change my vote?

I checked in at 151-200 and hardly any of them are from after 1970. (Well maybe 20 or so.)

Last week Robert Fulford devoted his entire Natinal Post column to kvelling about the cd . Fulford's been a culural commentator for decades. (I used to guest on his CBC radio show many years ago.) I tried to provide a link but failed. Perhaps someone more computer savvy than me (eg any 13 year old) could find it. Fulford suggests (regretfully) that the concert may replace the Massey hall concert as the great Bop event. If you're in Canada can you order directly from the good doctor?

I'm there !

Wow I was starting to think I was the only one who'd ever heard Pop's singing "Cheesecake". My son's music teacher at school played it for him when he was in grade six. He came home raving about it and I thought it would be a cinch to find a copy. Took me forever and very few Jazz fans I asked about it had ever heard it or even heard of it!

Oh to be 50 again! Happy Birthday.

Berigan: You obviously had a great and loving relationship with your mother. My sincerest condolences.

KOB: 1) On Lp from Columbia record club when it was first released 2) 1st cd 3) Gold cd 4) Newer cd release because of exra track (which I already had on-- I think-- the Miles on Columbia box set) 5) SACD 6) Miles/Coltrane box 7) New CD/DVD

Well they did open with some groups that claimed to fuse Celtic and Afro-Cuban music! But Bill Frissell was appearing (though some may not consider him a jazzman anymore). And they also inlcuded some straight ahead Canadian players: Sonny Greenwich, PJ Perry and Oliver Jones with Jennie Lee. (I may have gotten some spelings and even names wrong here.)

What's the best place/site to order the new Nance cd from ?