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Reader Music Review
CDs from TV shows I
By Dave Romm
At first, television followed radio and was a venue for music. But early on in the game, tv went on to become a producer of music with the tv themes becoming hits and spin off records and CDs featuring fictional characters. Considered the first in this line was The Ballad of Davy Crockett. Says the Davy Crockett Home Page: "Even before the Davy Crockett television series aired, there was the song The Ballad of Davy Crockett, which premiered on the very first episode of Disneyland, October 27 of 1954. It was placed there as a coming attraction for the upcoming Crockett trilogy.... In the first six months of 1955, nearly seven million copies of the song were sold, making it the fastest-selling record up to that time." They never looked back, and the song that kicked it off is still around.
Television's influence on music is so pervasive that I've already mentioned a few, since kids are a natural audience for this sort of thing. I've already talked about Big Songs from the Jim Hensen show Dinosaurs, which is loads of fun and Barney Rocks! which has a few great children's songs on it. So I won't go into them again here. Still, this set is really the first of several on music from tv and the fifth in the Children's Music set. Oh, the fun we have.
As The Ballad of Davy Crockett showed, sometimes it's the throwaway music that captures our attention and endures. (I'd bet more people have sung the song in the last 40 years than seen the show or worn a coonskin cap.) Schoolhouse Rock was an attempt in the 1970s to add some culture to the pablum on Saturday Morning tv by adding three minutes of educational material per hour to all the noise. Naturally, educational material couldn't have reached the air if it weren't mandated by the FCC. Somewhat to everyone's surprise, it succeeded. My favorite is still the first one made, Three Is A Magic Number, though I'm fond of The Preamble and Interplanetary Janet. If you agree (or if you have different choices), you can vote for your favorite at the Disney site. I have the boxed set of four CDs available at Rhino's site. I hate the packaging because it doesn't fit into my CD racks, but as a stand-alone tribute to the songs it works pretty well. A ring binder, like a school notebook, has the CDs and a fair amount of commentary on the creation of the series and the artists behind it. I'm not entirely sure if the videos are available, or even if the crude animation holds up after 30 years, but that's where they came from. MTV, eat your heart out.
In the wake of 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, children's cartoons enjoyed an all-too-brief Renaissance, mostly thanks to Executive Producer Stephen Spielberg and Producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall who went on to produce, among others, Tiny Toons, Freakazoid, and my favorite of the bunch: Animaniacs. The Animaniacs CD with songs from the cartoons has some songs that don't work as well without the visual accompaniment, but lots of them are just plain fun tunes. Yakko's Universe puts us in the Total Perspective Vortex just as well as Erid Idle's Galaxy Song. Yakko's World is nothing but the names of as many countries as they could cram into the Mexican Hat Dance. Wakko's America is the states and their capitols. The Planets is all the planets... except one. ("G'Night folks.") I Am The Very Model of a Cartoon Individual, The Senses and Let The Anvils Ring are some of the others which may be familiar to fans of the series.
The early 90's were a Golden Age of tv animation. The Spielberg afternoon cartoon shows were great. Even some of the Disney series like Aladdin were pretty good. Adults had Duckman and The Tick and a few others. Times were good but, like the Clinton administration, all good things must come to an end. Still, the grandaddy of modern cartoons is still on the air and about to begin its 14th Season: The Simpsons. Early on, they had a minor hit with Do The Bartman; dumb but fun rap. Typical of them, they produced a CD to capitalize on the flash-in-the-pan hit but didn't rush out a cheapo crass marketing insult. The Simpsons Sing The Blues is an album Bleedin' Gums Murphy would be proud of. Only Bartman and Moanin' Lisa Blues are actually from the show. Moanin' Lisa Blues features Joe Walsh on slide guitar and Tower of Power on horns. Walsh also plays on School Day, a drivin' cover of Chuck Berry's School Days ("Hail hail rock and roll") with Buster Poindexter singing lead with Bart. Bleedin' Gums Murphy adds his soul to God Bless The Child while Homer and Marge sing the sweet duet, I Love To See You Smile. Marge cooks up a band in Springfield Soul Stew, a cover of Memphis Soul Stew. Mr. Burns raps Look At All These Idiots. ("Mr. Burns, you make Muddy Waters sound shallow and cheerful by comparison." "Thank you Smithers; meaningless but heartfelt compliment.") B. B. King and DJ Jazzy Jeff and probably many other blues/rap artists I don't recognize add their talent. It won't make you forget Billie Holiday, but Sings The Blues is a pretty good intersection of a popular phenomena and traditional blues... and a way to sneak some culture into a tv addict.
Dave Romm is a conceptual artist with a radio show and a web site and a very weird CD collection. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The NBA Playoff game was on in the background. Not a pretty sight.
Played in the dirt hole that is becoming a garden. Finally, the poppies are popping.
Tonight, Monday, CBS has 4 rerun sitcoms - 'King Of Queens', 'Yes, Dear', 'Raymond', and 'Becker'. They are followed by '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Christian Slater and David Bowie.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Janel Moloney.
NBC has a rerun 'Fear Factor', then a fresh 'Spy TV', followed by a rerun 'Crossing Jordan'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Martin Short, Franka Potente and Ralph Stanley.
As is traditional, Conan has his Monday night rerun, with Tom Arnold, Roger Ebert and Doris Wishman.
Scheduled on Carson Daly are Dave Chapelle and John Mayer.
ABC has NHL Hockey that will intrude on primetime. Expect lots of local programming.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Debbie Schlussel ( columnist), Jane Seymour (actress), Michael Olowokandi (Los Angeles Clippers player), and Penn Jilette (magician ).
The WB has reruns of '7th Heaven' and 'Angel'.
Faux has reruns of 'Simpsons', 'Malcolm', 'That 70's Show', and 'Grounded For Life'.
UPN has reruns of 'The Hughleys', 'One On One', 'The Parkers', and 'Girlfriends'.
TCM has a tribute to 70's films - first, the disaster genre, Airport (1970) and
Earthquake (1974). Following are futuristic -
Rollerball (1975) and Soylent Green (1973).
Soylent Green was directed by Richard Fleischer who
is the son of Max Fleischer who was responsible for Popeye and Betty Boop (among others).
The Fleischer Brothers should be as familiar as Walt Disney - probably more so.
Some links: Max Fleischer - The thin black line
< snip> ''Animation's history may now be dominated by Disney but many of its techniques were pioneered by Max Fleischer's rival studio, which invented the characters of Popeye and Betty Boop and was the first to animate Superman.''
Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Max Fleischer Studio
< snip> ''Noted For: Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye animation, Superman animation, Gulliver's Travels, and more.
Before Hanna-Barbera, before Warner Bros., even before Disney, there was Max Fleischer. The Fleischer Studio started taking shape in 1915, when its mechanically-minded founder got an idea for a process whereby live-action footage could be transformed into animation. His device — the rotoscope — is still in use. But the animation studio he founded is long gone. ''
And, Betty Boop.
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To Be Knighted By Queen - Finally
Mick Jagger
Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger is to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his service to music, newspapers reported Sunday.
The aging rock star will receive the title Sir Mick in the queen's birthday honors next weekend, The Sunday Times said.
The Independent on Sunday said Jagger, who once outraged the British establishment with his hedonistic lifestyle, had been nominated by Prime Minister
Tony Blair, who is a fan of the band.
Mick Jagger
www.mickjagger.com
World Cup
Japanese Fan
La tifoseria giapponese festeggia la vittoria sulla Russia in Coppa del Mondo per 1-0.
Photo by Kimimasa Mayama
Interesting Link
Ten Least Essential Films of the Summer
Ten Least Essential Films of the Summer
Defend Coke Commercial
Counting Crows
If you've turned the TV on recently, you've probably seen the new Coca-Cola commercial starring the Counting Crows. The ad shows two bathing suit-clad teenagers at
the beach, being visited by the fully clothed band, while its new single "American Girls" (featuring vocal harmonies by Sheryl Crow) plays in the background.
Asked if the Crows felt out of place on the sand decked out in jeans and long leather coats, frontman Adam Duritz says, "That's the whole joke. Rock band on the beach.
"At a time when radio is playing so few songs, and MTV plays so few songs, you can't count on them to promote you," he continues. "I think the record companies are really
looking for a way to get you on TV for free. We don't make a lot of money, but it's a huge promotion for your record . . . I like Coke. It's everywhere. It's harmless."
"American Girls" will be featured on the Crows' fourth album, Hard Candy, which hits stores on July 9th. The album was produced largely by Steve Lillywhite (the Dave Matthews
Band, U2) and features guest turns by Ryan Adams, Leona Naess and Matthew Sweet in addition to Crow.
Counting Crows
Nuptials Scheduled For Tuesday
Heather & Paul
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his fiancee Heather Mills have arrived at the 17th century Irish castle where they plan to marry on Tuesday, it was confirmed on Sunday.
The couple arrived by helicopter at Castle Leslie in the tiny village of Glaslough close to the Irish border with British-ruled Northern Ireland for one of the most glittering celebrity events of the year.
The 59-year-old rock legend will be married to former model Mills, 34, by a local priest in St. Salvator's church in the castle grounds before hosting a lavish lakeside reception
for 300 guests on the 1,000-acre estate.
Among those reported to have been invited are former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and legendary guitarist Eric Clapton.
Heather & Paul
No Barbecue
Hillary & Chuck
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chuck Schumer were among the Democrats who stayed away from the barbecue resident Bush threw last Wednesday on the White House
lawn. This was a bash that originally had been scheduled for Sept. 11.
Hillary & Chuck
Back on Track
Yancy Butler
Looks like the battle against evil will go on for Witchblade's Yancy Butler.
The 31-year-old star of TNT's supernatural drama is expected return to the set of her show Monday after a monthlong stint in rehab for alcohol abuse, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Neither Warner Bros. Television nor reps for Butler immediately returned calls for comment Thursday. But the trade paper quotes sources saying filming is tentatively set to start again Monday
in Toronto--which means the second season would be able to move ahead uninterrupted.
Production on the show's second season was halted last month despite having just six of this season's 13 episodes wrapped up. The show is still set to premiere June 16.
While there were some murmurs about having to replace Butler in the lead role, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that her treatment was successful and she should be back at work Monday.
Yancy Butler
Handy Link
Modern Greek
The Shrine of the Modern Greek Language
On The Outs?
Ben & Matt
Former best pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon seem to be on the outs. The pair, who won Oscars for "Good Will Hunting," are competitors now with rival action flicks.
While promoting "The Sum of All Fears," Affleck dismissed Damon's movie "The Bourne Identity" as "fluffy garbage." And before that, Damon had shot a cameo as a waiter
for "Fears," which ended up on the cutting-room floor.
Ben & Matt
No Doubt And Pretenders, Too
The Rolling Stones Tour
The Rolling Stones, whose 40th anniversary tour starts September 3 in Boston, are taking two female-fronted bands along as support acts on the initial dates. The Pretenders,
with Chrissie Hynde on lead vocals and guitar, will have the honor of presenting the Stones for the eight arena/stadium shows in September, while the Gwen Stefani-fronted No
Doubt have been announced for three of the bigger shows in October.
There's no word on who will open the theater shows the Stones have set for the first month of the tour in Boston, Chicago, New York City, and Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
The Rolling Stones/Pretenders itinerary (subject to change):
September 3 - Boston, MA - FleetCenter
September 5 - Foxboro, MA - CMGI Field
September 10 - Chicago, IL - United Center
September 13 - Chicago, IL - Comiskey Park
September 18 - Philadelphia, PA - Veterans Stadium
September 20 - Philadelphia, PA - First Union Center
September 26 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
September 28 - East Rutherford, New Jersey - Giants Stadium
The Rolling Stones/No Doubt itinerary (subject to change):
October 12 - Detroit, MI - Ford Field
October 18 - Toronto, ON - Toronto Skydome
October 26 - Atlanta, GA - Turner Field
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Just Liked The Headline
Derwin Subs for Kerwin
Mark Derwin ("One Life to Live") has joined the cast of "Life With Bonnie," the new Tuesday night ABC comedy starring Bonnie Hunt. He replaces Brian Kerwin ("Beggars and Choosers") as
the husband of Hunt's character, a talk show host.
Derwin, whose credits include "The Minus Man" and "The Guiding Light," and Hunt worked together on the short-lived 1995-96 CBS comedy "The Bonnie Hunt Show." Hunt portrayed a TV reporter and Derwin a news executive.
Derwin Subs for Kerwin
Salacious Monday
Nell McAndrew
British model Nell McAndrew in a spider diamond dress arrives at the British premiere of Spider-Man in London's Leicester Square, June 5, 2002. The film broke box office records in North America after recording the
biggest opening of all time with 78 million pounds (114 million dollars) in its first three days.
Photo by Peter Macdiarmid
2 Decades In...
Steven Wright
Perhaps the funniest thing about Steven Wright, the poker-faced comedian whose slovenly dress and morose manner made him one of the hottest stand-up acts of the '80s, is that his act was never really an act.
Nearly two decades after he first burst onto the scene, it still isn't.
With Wright, who's suddenly hot again and doing his first New York performance in eight years Thursday as part of the Toyota Comedy Festival, what you see is pretty much what you get.
Among some of his favorite bits:
* "I knew I wasn't going to be the firstborn even before I was born. There was graffiti in the womb: 'Bob was here.' "
* "If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer?"
* "For a while I was in the centrifugal air force. Came home dizzy every night."
Wright doesn't do nearly as many live performances as he did a decade ago, and he welcomes the chance to choose his own projects now.
Which may also explain why he recently gave up homes in New York and Los Angeles, and permanently relocated to Lexington, Mass.
He said people have a habit of stealing his jokes and posting them wrongly on the Internet.
Steven Wright
Handy Link
Learn Italian
Cyber Italian - Interactive language course and more
San Francisco Landmark Turns 150
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and now has plans to expand its chocolate empire.
Founded in 1852 by Domenico Ghirardelli, an Italian immigrant, the chocolate company is one of the country's longest continuously running chocolate manufacturers.
Ghirardelli started to make the chocolate that is now a household name after he failed to make it as a gold prospector during California's Gold Rush.
The company was bought by the Golden Grain Macaroni Co. in 1963, and then by the Quaker Oats Co. in 1986. Since 1998, it has been owned by Lindt & Sprungli, a global high-end
chocolate company based in Switzerland.
The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Dracula-Tourism & Whitby
Bram Stoker
On a windy cliff on the northeast coast, Bram Stoker watched the mist descend on the ruins of a 12th century abbey and neighbouring graveyard: his thoughts turned to vampires and "Dracula" was born.
Or so they say in Whitby, where the Irish author came for a holiday and ended up writing the legendary novel about a blood-sucking count who turns his victims into vampires with just one bite.
Whitby, a small fishing town nestling beneath rugged cliffs and steep hills, features in just three chapters of the book but this is no obstacle to the lucrative Dracula-tourism that pulls in thousands of visitors a year.
More than a century since "Dracula" tapped into a 19th century fascination with ghosts and the supernatural, Whitby has become a haunt for a new generation of devotees.
Their faces painted with black and white makeup, dressed in 19th century-style costume or all in black with heavy silver chains, these so-called "Goths" flock to Whitby, which they describe as their spiritual home.
Twice a year Goths take over the town for a "Goth weekend", but there is also a steady stream throughout the year, Whitby Tourist Office said.
Dracula-Tourism & Whitby
BartCop TV!
The Arabic "Anne Robinson"
Rita Khoury
Not long ago Rita Khoury was an obscure radio presenter, but one who everyone liked.
A few months into the first series of "Al Halka Al Ad'af", the Arabic version of the hit global quiz show "The Weakest Link", the petite Lebanese presenter is a television starlet, but one who nearly no one likes.
Armed with school mistress spectacles and scathing one-liners, Khoury has caused outrage among Arab audiences more accustomed to a bland diet of political rhetoric and dubbed south American soap operas.
Khoury's curt "you are the weakest link - goodbye" has become an infamous put down among the Arab masses who tune in twice a week to watch the programme on the Beirut-based satellite channel Future Television.
Appearing in suits, veils and dishdashes, nine contestants drawn from all over the Arab world, must vote off one player -- "the weakest link" -- at the end of each round.
Khoury promptly follows each vote with a cowing review of the contestants' performance. Her quips have added resonance when directed against men from Saudi Arabia, where women
are not allowed to vote or drive cars.
The Lebanese producers of "Al Halka Al Ad'af" say they were after controversy but wanted to avoid the Arab social taboos that would be stacked against
"reality" TV shows such as Big Brother, which has been enormously popular in many countries.
Khoury says she regularly turns down pleas from men, anxious to protect their honour back home, that she edit out some particularly acid remark.
"No woman contestant has ever got upset," she said, flashing a cheeky grin. "Maybe it's because Arab women are so downtrodden."
Rita Khoury
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World Languages
World Languages - WannaLearn.com
Snarky Gossip
Woody Allen
Where have all Woody Allen's friends gone? Except for Dick Cavett, they certainly haven't been in court as he sues his former producer Jean Doumanian. Along with his box-office grosses,
Allen's clout has declined so far that few of the big names once happy to appear in his films will step up to defend him. It's understandable that Mia Farrow - bitter over being dumped
in favor of her daughter Soon Yi - would keep mum. And Uma Thurman is filming in China. But Mira Sorvino, who won an Oscar in "Mighty Aphrodite" (1995), simply had "nothing to say about
the matter," her publicist said. Neither did Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Dianne Wiest, Alan Alda, Dan Aykroyd, Tracey Ullman, Harvey Fierstein or Elizabeth Berkley. Allen's only defenders?
Mariel Hemingway ("Manhattan" and "Deconstructing Harry") called him "a wonderful human being and an amazing talent." And Joe Franklin ("Broadway Danny Rose") said, "He's the modern day
Charlie Chaplin. I can't believe she [Doumanian] would cheat him, but where there's smoke, there's fire."
Woody Allen
The World Cup
Hail, Britannia
A naked England fan sings as he stands in a flower bed in central Sapporo hours before a World Cup Finals Group F match between England and Argentina June 7, 2002.
Photo by Gleb Garanich
Movie Mermaid & The War Effort
Esther Williams
Movie mermaid Esther Williams says she did some of her famous swimming scenes in lingerie.
Well, lingerie fabric, at least. The material was used because the rubber to make stretchable thread was needed for the World War II military effort.
"I begged them to please make me something that wouldn't ride up my, well, you know. And they all told me that they used all the rubber for the tanks," the 80-year-old Williams
said Thursday during a "Tribute to Hollywood Icons of the Silver Screen" fashion show at downtown's Biltmore.
Williams said she and her costume designer finally persuaded a textiles firm to use latex with fabric.
The result was a hot pink satin latex suit she used in 1944's "Bathing Beauty.
Esther Williams
Film Delayed Again
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt may have grown all that hair for nothing.
"The Last Man," the apocalyptic sci-fi flick in which Pitt was to have starred with Cate Blanchett, may not begin shooting in August as planned.
A spokesman for Warner Bros. said the $97 million project would be put off at least a year, according to the Sydney Telegraph in Australia, where it was scheduled to be filmed.
Could the postponement be a manifestation of bad karma? Consider: Pitt agreed to do the film in Australia at a time when Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Michelle Gellar and
other actors have joined the Global Rule One campaign, which seeks to block big-budget American films from being shot cheaply Down Under.
Brad Pitt
Challenges Ahead
Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Gilbert says one of her biggest challenges as head of the Screen Actors Guild is to prove she's come a long way since her days as a child actress playing Laura
Ingalls Wilder on "Little House on the Prairie."
"I think a lot of people underestimate the level of my stubbornness," said the 38-year-old Gilbert, who took office as SAG president in March after two contentious
elections against actress Valerie Harper.
Gilbert said she will try to shore up the union's pension and health fund and try to enforce a rule that requires union members to only work on SAG-sanctioned projects.
But she is not expecting miracles.
"We're just a big, dysfunctional family of very dramatic and colorful people," she said. "I felt it was my time to step in and see if I couldn't direct that
energy and colorfulness, those eccentricities, in a more productive direction.
Melissa Gilbert
The FBI, The CIA & The University of California
Thanks, Ron
Under the guise of protecting national security, the FBI conducted wide-ranging and unlawful intelligence operations concerning the University of California that at different
points involved the head of the CIA and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, The Chronicle has learned.
According to thousands of pages of FBI records obtained by The Chronicle after a 17-year legal fight, the FBI unlawfully schemed with the head of the CIA to harass students,
faculty and members of the Board of Regents, and mounted a concerted campaign to destroy the career of UC President Clark Kerr, which included sending the White House derogatory
allegations about him that the bureau knew were false.
The FBI, in contrast, developed a "close and cordial" relationship with Reagan, who made campus unrest a major issue and vowed to fire Kerr during his 1966 gubernatorial campaign.
And after he was elected, the FBI failed to report that Reagan falsely stated on a federal security clearance form that he never had been a member of any group officially deemed
subversive, an omission that could have been prosecuted as a felony.
This is a long, and very damning article. Get your blood pressure up & realize paranoia may be justified...The FBI, The CIA & The University of California
SF Gate: The Campus Files - Reagan, Hoover & the UC Red Scare
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In Memory
Herman Cohen
Producer Herman Cohen, who invented the teen-age fright flick and launched Michael Landon's film career with "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," has died of throat cancer in Los Angeles at age 74, a hospital spokeswoman said on Sunday.
Cohen died on June 2 at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
"Werewolf," starring Landon as an affable teen transformed into a hairy horror by a diabolical hypnotist, became a cult classic after its release in 1957 and confirmed Cohen's conclusion that teenagers were movie tastemakers.
Made for less than $100,000, "Werewolf" grossed more than $2 million. The success inspired Cohen to do six more horror films in which hapless teenagers were terrorized by evil adults.
"I have always felt that most teenagers think that adults -- their parents, or their teacher, anyone who was older and who had authority -- were culprits in their lives," Cohen said in a 1991 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Through his cult horror films, which included "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" and "How to Make a Monster," Cohen put American International Pictures on the map and established himself as the "king of the drive-in horror movie," film historian Tom Weaver told the Times.
Cohen co-wrote many of his films, naming many characters after family members and friends and including cameos for himself, in the manner of Alfred Hitchcock.
The horror genre was a departure from Cohen's earlier work in the 1950s in mainstream films such as "Crime of Passion," starring Barbara Stanwyck.
The Detroit native began his association with motion pictures at 12, as an assistant to a movie theater janitor. He traded his services for free movie passes for himself and his family, the Times reported.
After serving in the Army, Cohen landed a sales job at the Detroit offices of Columbia Pictures.
He moved to Hollywood to work in Columbia's publicity department. In 1951, he earned his first screen credit as assistant producer of "Bride of the Gorilla."
Cohen stopped producing movies in the 1970s. He is survived by a brother and sister.
Herman Cohen
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
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