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John Litweiler's Ornette bio mentions a film called The Box Office made in 1981 and released in 1982 and produced by Josef Bogdanovich (not sure who that is and if he is related to film director Peter), which apparently has a score written by Ornette Coleman for Prime Time+40-piece Orchestra+singer (recorded in March 1981). In addition, there are three songs written by pianisrt Freddie Redd and sung by one of the actresses in the film (who presumbably wrote the lyrics). Freddie has confirmed the existence of this film and his involvement, but does not remember the three songs. Does anyone know anything more about this? My interest is two-fold. 1) It is a rare Ornette recording, which obviously took some time and money to put together. 2) There may be three unknown Freddie Redd tunes, which could be revived and added to his current repertoire. Is this film available somewhere? IMDB has few details, and it's certainly not on DVD. It was apparently either never released or only briefly. REALLY curious about this one! Bertrand.