I love Mancini. My appreciation for him has only grown as I’ve gotten older, especially of his lesser-known dramatic scores. I was...

Here is the fundamental conflict in being an entertainment journalist: You can have honesty. You can have access. But you can’t have...

Things from 10 years ago feel lame. But things from 20 years ago feel cool. Circa 1989, Star Wars was passé. (It was actually kind of...

This is a random photo of tapes stored at UCLA of the CBS music library, which was donated to the Special Collections dept. and,...

There was talk on a Facebook James Bond music group about some of the remaining unreleased Bond music, and given that I produced the 2003...

From 1994 concert work by Wojciech Kilar. WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED. (It reminded me in some places, favorably, of early James Horner....

I’ve added an “About Me” page to the site, with rapid-fire smart-aleck remarks. The above pic: this is a drawing I made of Jay...

I was going to write a long, confessional true story of the unpublished Jerry Goldsmith book that his daughter, Carrie Goldsmith, was...