Miami Vice Guest Stars
On this last day of 2023, I give you my shock and amazement to learn how many huge actors were guest stars on Miami Vice: I never watched...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 30, 20231 min read
Where’s Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty was so great on the first four years of Law & Order. I mean, wow. He did a great acting trick that not many can pull...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 29, 20237 min read
Black List Number One Scripts
It’s a good career move to have your script rank number one on the annual Black List, voted on by development executives (as opposed to...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 28, 20233 min read
Apple TV
I am an Apple customer (or fan, at least) going back to the early 1980s. In fourth grade (1983), the teacher had an Apple IIG in the...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 27, 20231 min read
Amazon Punks Us
I’m sure we’ve all seen or heard of Amazon’s last-minute Christmas “present”: ADS! They are coming to Prime on January 29th, unless you...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 26, 20231 min read
Saltburn
Saltburn is not quite what I expected. Part of this is deliberate. It looks like a film where the poor shy kid at boarding school is...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 25, 20231 min read
007 Xmas Surprise
Twenty years ago—wow, it’s been a while—I was lucky to put together several expanded James Bond soundtrack reissues for EMI and MGM. It...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 24, 20231 min read
Maestro
Maestro is excellent. Great lead performances, amazing makeup, great sense of period. And the music speaks for itself. I wonder how much...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 23, 20231 min read
The Crown Finale
Congratulations to the makers of The Crown on concluding a truly high quality and high-class show. I’m a typical American, so the British...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 22, 20231 min read
Nahre Sol’s John Williams Video
Nahre Sol is a pianist, composer and music educator with a lot of great videos online, both for serious musicians and casual aficionados....
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 21, 20231 min read
Cowboy Bebop Netflix LP
I only now realized that the short-lived, live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop on Netflix actually had two separate Yoko Kanno albums...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 20, 20231 min read
Paul Jenkins Fundraiser
Paul Jenkins is one of the ex-directors of a Star Trek fan film that went off the deep end. I don’t even want to tell the story. Just...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 19, 20231 min read
International Film Music Archives
My compliments to the International Film Music Archives on an eclectic collection of unreleased film music on YouTube. There’s a bunch of...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 18, 20231 min read
What Is Wrong With People, Tolkien Edition
Reading Deadline this morning, I saw this news item about somebody who published fan fiction of Lord of the Rings and then tried to sue...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 17, 20231 min read
Missing Krull CD
This is probably a shot in the dark but we are trying to find a La-La Land Records Krull CD from the recent big CD sale that might have...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 16, 20231 min read
Hip Hop Sample
Some months ago I watched a YouTube video about a famous hip-hop sample and made a note of it in my list of blog column ideas. Now I am...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 15, 20234 min read
Battle Beyond the Stars
I was so excited to get Intrada’s new expanded version of James Horner’s Battle Beyond the Stars, and it did not disappoint. This goes...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 14, 20231 min read
La-La Land Holiday Party
Last night was the La-La Land Records holiday dinner at the Smoke House restaurant in Burbank, the first one in four years. Many thanks...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 13, 20231 min read
When the Heck Are We?
Is it really about to be 2024? I’ll be fifty next year. Movies that I feel like just came out are now 25 years old. My kids see a...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 12, 20231 min read
Max Rebo Band
Many thanks to Julian Baxter’s YouTube channel which has posted a bunch of piano reductions of the Return of the Jedi score, including a...
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