Roy Scheider dies age 75

Roy Scheider just died after a two year battle with cancer of the plasma (myeloma). First of all, I didn't think you could even get plasma cancer...I wonder if he picked that up on his adventures on Seaquest DSV...must be some crazy deep sea cancer (first Jonathan Brandis, now this?). I was really bummed to hear this news, as he was totally awesome...and even killed JAWS. This guy KILLED JAWS. THE JAWS...but cancer got him. Just shows you how tough cancer can be.
He sailed to the great beyond berthing from Little Rock AR, which is about 3 hours away from me. That'd be cool, if we weren't talking about him dying and everything.
Check his obituary here. He was a kick ass dude.

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Saturday Score Selection #10 : The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
music by Micheal Kamen

Heath Ledger and Terry Gilliam seems to be on everyones tongue and/or blog lately, what with the potential death of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus...oh and the actual death of Heath Ledger. All this talk has once again stirred up yet another chapter of the "Terry Gilliam Curse". (If you've never heard about it...follow that link. It's pretty interesting) I thought that this week I'd bring you music from a Gilliam film that was no less troubled, but actually got finished in the end. One that many people overlook, but I consider to be a fantastic fantasy/adventure, and that's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I won't go into a film review, as we're talking about music here...but like the film, the score by Micheal Kamen is innocent and whimsical with a touch of magic and adventure. I find this one of the most interesting Kamen scores out there, as it really shows how diverse he can be when scoring films. We've all heard his work on Highlander, Lethal Weapon, and X-Men, but this has quite a different feel that he pulls off just fine. So I leave you this week with a couple of very out of print tracks that capture Gilliam's great sense for the bizarre and Kamens broad versatility. Enjoy.
Download Micheal Kamen's - Wednesday via yousendit
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Download Micheal Kamen & Eric Idle - The Sultan via yousendit

Get the film on DVD for 15 bucks!

ps- when the link dies, you can always find my score selections
streaming here.

Lost But Not Forgotten #1: 99 And 44/100% Dead (1974)

Howdy gang!

I'm excited to offer a new weekly feature here at the Speakerbox, contributed by an old co-host of the radio show and dear friend of mine The Negative Cutter. He runs an out of print movie website All Clues, No Solutions, and each Thursday I'll be spotlighting one, giving you his short review, and you can even go buy it. CHEAP. Oh man, I'm pumped? How about you? Let's get to it.



"99 And 44/100% Dead" (1974) (John Frankenheimer)

The Negative Cutter says: "Offbeat gangster melodrama with pop art and new wave sensibilities; about a hitman (Richard Harris) hired by one mobster to knock off a rival gang, who has subsequently hired arch enemy hitman (Chuck Connors with an interchangeable appendage apparatus) to do the opposite. Kookiness abounds as characters and scenes seem out of moving comic books. Strange little absurdities pop up all over the place when least expected and actors play out bizarre sequences straight faced, all of which boldly feeds your curiosity. Stylish and peculiar. It is a lost mini-revolution of studio avant-garde deviation. Frankenheimer later regretted it but you might not."

1974 / 98mins. / English Language / Color / USA

Buy this for $7.00 on DVD.



(note from the Boom Operator: I love this movie, especially the scissor handed Chuck Connors.)

Technical problems, but all is not lost!

Howdy folks,
Another week has come and gone and normally I'd have a brand new show for you guys. However, due to some technical problems at the station, I couldn't record a podcast, so I just played a show from the archives that I've never made available here on the website. It was a pretty good one too. It originally aired on August 20th, 2007. I'd have a playlist for you guys, but I'm too lazy to go through and make it. So you'll just have to be surprised!

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Instead of a playlist for my podcast I'm going to give you a short list of some cool DVDs that came out today!

Perfect Strangers - 1st and 2nd Seasons! (1986)
Remember Balky? Yeah...me either.
21 bucks at Amazon.com

Portrait In Black / Madame X (Double Feature) (1966)
Lana Turner...Film Noir...say no more.
13 bucks at Amazon.com

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection - Volume 10.2 (Giant Gila Monster / Swamp Diamonds / Teenage Strangler / Giant Spider Invasion) (1964)
Dude, it's MST3K...nuff said.
45 bucks at Amazon.com

Anthony Bourdain Collection 2 (2005)
This guy is the Steve McQueen of the kitchen...and who I want to be when I grow up.
18 bucks at Amazon.com

Tootsie - 25th Anniversary Edition (1982)
Bwahaha! Dustin Hoffman in drag...so classic
15 bucks at Amazon.com

Roxy Music - Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982 (2006)
Love em or hate em...they know some visuals
17 bucks at Amazon.com

The Whitest Kids U' Know (2007)
A comedy troupe that actually makes me not want to hang myself
20 bucks at Amazon.com

Midnight Express (1978)
If you don't have the Giorgio Moroder soundtrack to this, shame on you.
15 bucks at Amazon.com
Get the score at iTunes

You've Got Mail (Deluxe Edition) (1998)
Order this and you're a homo...and you smell, and you need to put your foot down at home more often
13 bucks at Amazon.com

Jean-Luc Godard Box Set
Contains the films: Passion, First Name: Carmen, Détective, & Oh Woe is Me
26 bucks at Amazon.com

Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set (1975)
Stuff like this is always fun...and affordable to boot
10 bucks at Amazon.com


Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Special Edition) (1964)
A great Ukrainian film released by the good people over at KINO
27 bucks at Amazon.com

You know what? There's a couple of other ones that tickled my fancy, but I'm tired of typing, and you're probably tired of reading. So, if you like any of those...follow those direct links and grab a copy for yourself. Heck, it even supports my broke ass.

Saturday Score Selection #9 : Breakin' (1984)

Breakin' - (1984)
Various Artists
God damnit! You know what I'm getting sick of? Movies about dancing, dance crews, choreographers or any other excuse to get a bunch of new, young, no talent actors trying to break it big by trying to pull a Saturday Night Fever sans a script and the Bee-Gees. Success of things like Step Up and Dancing with the Stars has somehow got the public in a "We're too fat to ever move our bodies off the couch, let's watch others do it!" frenzy. Cause I guess if it's in a movie or on TV then we're supposed to watch it. If I want to watch sweaty, athletic young people gyrate all over each other in a passionate and steamy setting...I'll watch it in the privacy of my bedroom on the internet thank you. I digress...to a time where movies about dance crews were actually awesome. Cue the 80's, when pretty much everything was awesome by mere chronological proximity. Case in point: Breakin'. This movie was THE dance crew film. Did I mention it was also the film debut of Ice-T? It also starred people with such monikers as "Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers" and "Bruno Pop N' Taco' Falcon" ...umm kickass? These guys brought pop'n and lock'n to the silver screen on a red and black checkered linoleum platter. More to the point...the music in this film was groundbreaking. It was a veritable who's who of electro funk artists of the day (who are just now starting to get their credit nearly 3 decades later when people are finally starting to admit that electro is rad...thanks France.) So I leave you with two of my favorite tracks from this film.
Download "Body Work" by Hot Steak via yousendit

and

Download "Showdown" by Ollie & Jerry via yousendit
Excuse me while I go practice the worm.
Yours,
The Boom "Sidestep Strudel" Operator