Dr. Crusher Wants to Know (1983 Enquirer Ad)
See Gates McFadden in this 1983 National Enquirer ad: I don’t remember this particular ad, but I do remember the campaign!
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Creature Features CD Sale Coming Friday 3/3/23
Mark your calendars! If you’ve been following my selling of my CD collection, you know that Creature Features has been kindly handling the storage and fulfillment. They’re the best! For the unaware: Taylor White’s Creature Features has been at the forefront of publishing and CD production for several decades. Go here for their eBay store. Long story short: I am returning the favor by helping them organize and sell their own CD inventory, which has some truly outstanding, rare
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 26
- 3 min
What Is Wrong With People, Dilbert Edition
I was a big comic-strip fan as a kid. When I was in grade school, I wanted to be a comic artist when I grew up. The first strip I was into was Garfield, when I was too young to notice it was, uh, not very good. Then I discovered Peanuts, Bloom County and, especially, Calvin and Hobbes—whose artist, Bill Watterson, is coming back with a new book. Calvin and Hobbes took me a while to get into (I was 12 when it debuted)—it didn’t really do “jokes”—but it has to be the all-time c
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Power Outage
When I was a kid growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, we lived at the end of a long dirt road in the woods. So a few times a year, when there was a big storm, the power would go out. The wind would blow a tree onto a line, or something like that—at least, something that was easily understood by us entitled dummies. I went off to college and then moved to Los Angeles, so I forgot about the association: storm = no power. But for some reason, our little suburb of L.A.—which is super
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 24
- 1 min
In the 25th Century...
I am enjoying the new season of Picard. The first episode opens with the above card, which is an homage, of course, to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: As I recall, director Nicholas Meyer added this to explain to his dad, who he knew (in the audience) would be wondering when the story took place. It was the first time Star Trek specified the time period; before that, fans weren’t quite sure. Well, great minds think alike! This was the opening card of my Sky Fighter short, wh
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 23
- 1 min
Composer Assistants in The Guardian
There’s a new piece in The Guardian getting spread around on social about composer assistants and the terrible working conditions. Check it out. I wrote about the same topic last September, after hearing a podcast.
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 22
- 2 min
My Project With Jonathan Frakes
Here is something I’ve had cooking that is super exciting! Normally I would not say anything, but Jonathan Frakes briefly mentioned it on the last episode of the Inglorious Trekperts podcast (at around 31 min.). I wrote a half-hour TV pilot, FAN FILM, that is loosely inspired by developments in Star Trek fandom in recent years. The logline: A couple of “Space Fleet” fans—a frustrated filmmaker and overzealous collectibles merchant—try to make the world’s most expensive (and t
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 21
- 1 min
My CD Sale Continues!
A few people have written to ask if I’m still selling CDs from my personal collection. Yes! We had a very busy couple of weeks when the sale started in January—so much so that I wanted to take a break, so I haven’t really advertised for the past week or two. But as of this morning (Tuesday, 2/21/23) there are 811 items left—a little under 50% of what we started with. Here’s the updated list. Ordering instructions: 1) Send me an email with what you want: Lukas@filmscoremonthly
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 20
- 2 min
I Wrote a Logan’s Run TV Pilot
Greetings, friends! So I did something that you’re probably not supposed to do, and has no point other than I was interested in doing it. And maybe it might be an interesting “stunt script” (a writing sample to get attention, not to be made). READ THE PILOT HERE. DISCLAIMER: Obviously, I do not own Logan’s Run! Warner Bros. does. They seem to announce a new film version every three to four years. I’ve always been fascinated with the 1976 movie. I spent quite a bit of time wit
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 19
- 2 min
Thoughts About The Menu
I caught up with The Menu and really enjoyed it. It’s a wicked send-up of fine dining and snooty rich people (something that’s definitely been in the air recently), from director Mark Mylod (some of his “rich asshole” cast members from Succession play supporting roles). I remember reading a glowing review of the script (by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy) on scriptshadow. Ralph Fiennes is super fun to watch. And Anya Taylor-Joy is a mega-star. Oh, and a typically outstanding perfor
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Remembering Gerald Fried
I woke up this morning to the sad news that Gerald Fried died on Friday, February 17. He had just turned 95 on the 13th. Please see Jon Burlingame’s Variety obituary. “Gerry” was a lovely guy and we crossed paths with him quite a bit. Like most Trekkies and TV junkies of my generation, his music has been a seminal part of my life. He had such a distinct style—he said he got his sense of rhythm from loving the “pulse” in Mozart’s music—that you always knew when it was a Gerald
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Rózsa Rocks
My thanks to my pal Frank DeWald who shared these metal versions of classic Rózsa themes. I think it’s cool!
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 16
- 1 min
Star Trek TOS Enterprise Comparison Chart
My thanks to Mark Farinas at TrekComic.com for making the above—outstanding! I am looking forward to watching the Picard season three premiere later—all my TV friends, back together again!
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 15
- 1 min
Vague Post
I can’t blog about anything because I’m doing something at my computer that takes hours, if not days. I hate these “vague tweet” like things (oooh, I’m so mysterious!) and you’ll notice I almost never do them. But I’m doing it today. Don’t worry, I’ll explain with a few days or a week at most what this is.
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 14
- 1 min
The Empire Strikes Back: “The Magic Tree”
Whoa! Dominic Sewell Music on YouTube is going through the entire John Williams score for The Empire Strikes Back with reductions and analyses. He just reached “The Magic Tree”: Brain too small to comprehend!
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 13
- 1 min
My Dumb Sports Opinion
I know nobody comes here for my take on sports—but yeah, what a lame finish to what was heading to the climax of a terrific Super Bowl game. I enjoy playing and watching sports so unlike a lot of entertainment commentators, who just watch the Super Bowl for the ads and halftime show and pop-culture baloney, I follow the game pretty closely. My dad is from Philly, so I wanted the Eagles, but it’s sort of beside the point. I guess the holding call was technically correct, argua
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 12
- 1 min
Miklós Rózsa: Daniel Robbins Interview
Miklós Rózsa fans will want to check out this interview with Daniel Robbins, who has written his memoirs (yet to be published), Memoirs of a Musical Life, including his long relationship as a student, associate and friend of the great composer.
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 11
- 2 min
Why Do We Like Film Music?
During summers in the early to mid 1990s, I worked at a grocery store on Martha’s Vineyard while also doing the earliest newsletter editions of FSM. Through reaching out to various composers and album producers, I met Jonathan Sheffer, who had conducted Alien3 for Elliot Goldenthal and done a few scores of his own. He was about to vacation on the Vineyard in a house not far from my mom’s. So set up, and had, a pleasant lunch. I was 19, and he was very nice and gracious. I rem
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Happy Birthday, Maestros
One of the coincidences you learn as a die-hard film score fan is that John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith have birthdays the same week in February, although they were born three years apart: Jerry on February 10, 1929, John on February 8, 1932. The above pic features them together at one of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music awards dinners in the early 1990s, I think—and it might have even come from FSM. But sadly I can’t find the original, and I can’t remember the
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Lukas Kendall
- Feb 9
- 1 min
R.I.P. Burt Bacharach
Farewell to one of the all-time greats, Burt Bacharach, who has died at 94. Here’s Tim Grieving’s obituary from The Washington Post. I always loved his songs. I am certainly not alone! He was really one-of-a-kind, to reinvent songwriting with the most unusual and seemingly complicated twists and turns—but they were so easy to recall and adore. That’s real genius. And out of that well came an unending stream of hits. Impossible to pick a single song and rendition to remember h
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