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I tracked down some info. Bill Watrous did the trombone solo at the beginning of the film. In addition to Lennie Niehaus, other musicians were George Doering, guitar, and Emil Richards, percussion. I don't know the name of the opening theme or if it appeared on any of Niehaus's recordings.
[url]https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200020978/[/url]
Article archived on the wayback machine, "Lennie Niehaus: Composing for Clint" [url]https://web.archive.org/web/20150402180920/http://jazztimes.com/articles/18858[/url]
I agree that it would be a mistake to kill Carl.
Did I find Carl annoying when he was younger back in the days of the farm? Yes. But he matured into a sensible young man, given that he grew up around zombies. :D
I see Carl as the future of the show. I picture him becoming the group's leader if something were to happen to Rick, or acting as co-leader with his father. To me, he represents hope for future generations to survive in that world. For the show producers and AMC not to recognize this potential and to just kill him (if that is what they do) is extremely short-sighted of them, in my opinion.
I am also reading these books for the first time. Disclaimer: I haven't read any Stephen King books previously (though I have enjoyed movies made from his books); I was interested in these because of the genre.
I am in the middle of the second book, The Drawing of the Three. I read the nonrevised, original version of The Gunslinger. I wanted to see how the original version read.
Do you have the Plume edition, by any chance? After I read the first book, I looked at the copyright information and realized that The Gunslinger had previously appeared in print in [i]The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,[/i] broken into five chapters (with the same names as in the book) prior to being published collectively as a novel (chapter 1 in 1978, chapter 2 in 1980, and chapters 3, 4 and 5 all in 1981, but in three different magazine issues).
I mention that because for me, while reading the first book, I attributed some of the -- call it anomalies or disjointed qualities -- to King's being a young writer. Later, I realized he must have written this book across a span of years.
I still enjoyed the story, despite what I suppose could be considered the book's flaws.
I find the second one to be more cohesive so far.
I wouldn't call them "page turners" -- the pace is much slower than what I would imagine a typical King horror book would be. Then again, they are nothing like Faulkner, who had one sentence that was two and a half pages long! I lowered my expectations going in due to the mixed reviews I read. But I am finding them oddly enjoyable so far. We'll see how it goes; I plan to read them all as well (maybe not the last one).
This was very enlightening; thank you for sharing the make/model and information on the historical accuracy of those weapons.
I found this online page on the Mauser C96: [url]http://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read-free/mauser-rifles-pistols-table-of-contents/the-mauser-c96-other-mauser-pistols/[/url].
It is part of this online article on Mauser rifles and pistols, originally published in 1958. [url]http://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read-free/mauser-rifles-pistols-table-of-contents/[/url]
I can't decide if Duvall decided to do this because it would be "annoying" but I do agree that Duvall did it purposefully.
Personally, I think it was not so much an "inside joke" on his character's part but instead more of a believable dialect choice for Duvall's character.
Joe Kidd was set in the early 1900s, before New Mexico became a state in 1912. It would have been likely to have Texans in the territory of New Mexico. Texans have a long history of mispronouncing Spanish words. [url]http://languagehat.com/pronunciation-wars-in-texas/[/url]
[url]https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/texans-spanish-place-names/[/url]
Duvall did a number of movies set in Texas. My father, a deeply Southern man, lived in Texas. He would mispronounce words, not intentionally. For example, he pronounced Jay Leno (whom he watched every night) "Lee-no." He meant no disrespect; this is just how my dad pronounced his name.
Duvall as a gringo mispronouncing the name for whatever reason is totally believable. Another reason Duvall is such a great actor!
I agree with you, R_Kane. If a series goes too long without episodes, I forget what happens! Of course, I can rewatch the episodes, but would rather not.
I do want the final season to be awesome, so I guess I don't mind waiting, but like you, I prefer the seasons to be annual.
I do like the fantasy genre, and I like this series. Don't want to get your expectations up, though, since you don't care for the genre and because, if you are like my brother, he prefers going into something with little or no expectations and being pleasantly surprised rather than having it built up and being disappointed. :)
I have personally found it to be an enjoyable show so far.
Ah ha! A Philadelphia accent makes sense.
Sutherland sounds like he's doing a Philadelphia accent with a bunch of marbles in his mouth. :D
I found some interesting (and some funny) links on the Philadelphia accent:
Apparently it is one of the best-studied dialects of American English.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_English[/url]
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/philadelphians-have-a-unique-accent-with-pronunciation-evolving-over-the-decades/2013/04/29/fcfe7b18-ae74-11e2-98ef-d1072ed3cc27_story.html[/url]
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpTM2gXnJYI[/url]
Agreed! And it could keep the show fresher with new characters as well.
I am glad that Ian Anthony Dale, who plays Adam Noshimuri, Kono's husband, is still in the show.
Interesting.
Apparently it is a real injury, but I can't get to the bottom of it.
I found an article that stated, "According to the show’s CBS publicist, Mr. Caan hurt his arm in real life while not working on the series so the injury was written into the show,” he wrote.
I saw fan speculation that it was injured due to a fall or that Scott had surgery on it, but nothing that was confirmed, only speculation by fans.
I noticed that as well; that he was looking to Steve when they were coming up to the house! He was really looking several times at Steve, and being exceptionally attentive, which is why I wondered if he had police dog training.
He does seem like a smart dog! I wonder if they are giving him some "police dog training" for the show. That would be pretty cool.
Thanks for letting me know he has been in some commercials and another film.
Me too! I like all of them. I do miss the old characters, and wish they hadn't left. But the new casting is working out well.
I didn't know about this; did some googling and it seemed he contracted spinal meningitis while filming Kelly's Heroes.
Per this article, http://www.contactmusic.com/donald-sutherland/news/donald-sutherland-came-close-to-death_1309623
(will quote it in case it is removed later)
"Donald Sutherland saw ''the white light'' when he died for a ''few seconds'' after being stricken with meningitis while filming 'Kelly's Heroes'."
"The 76-year-old actor played the part of Sergeant Oddball in the 1970 comedy/war film, and during the middle of shooting he was hit with a bout of spinal meningitis, causing him to go into a coma and he admits he ''dug his feet in'' so as not to pass away.
"He said: 'I got sick in the middle of shooting 'Kelly's Heroes'. I came to Yugoslavia for a day's filming and I was out for six weeks.
''They took me to hospital - I had spinal meningitis. They didn't have the antibiotics, so I went into a coma, and they tell me that for a few seconds, I died. I saw the blue tunnel, and I started going down it. I saw the white light. I dug my feet in.''
"However, Donald was tempted for a second to stop fighting to stay alive.
"He added: ''I didn't want to go - but it was incredibly tempting. You just go, 'Aw, s**t man, why not?' ''
I came here because I looked him up as well due to the film "Forsaken." I enjoyed his role in it. It looked like it was loosely modeled on Doc Holliday.