I watched The Bonfire of the Vanities on HBOMax. I was looking at the A–Z of movies in the TCM section, it came up (this is why cheapo...

Congrats and many thanks to the Small family and Tim Greiving for a brand new and terrific website dedicated to the late Michael Small,...

Happy Halloween, everybody! The above pic is from a few years ago. The kids are going as Cinderella and Hermione Granger this year. I’ll...

Star Trek: The Next Generation is rolling into season three in the nightly airing on the H&I cable channel, part of their Star Trek...

Today is Friday, which reminded me of one of my favorite obscure TV themes—which I’m not sure we’ve ever talked about on the FSM board....

Here is the tape box to part one of Elmer Bernstein’s masters to his glorious symphonic score to Heavy Metal (1981). This was one of my...

Yesterday I took potshots at the late Michael Wayne, who I thought deserved it. It made me think of some of the other folks who have...

I have a rule that I don’t use this blog to go after people I don’t like—especially if they have passed and are no longer around to...

This is page one of the “Film Tech Logs,” as we called them, for the masters for Miklós Rózsa’s score to the 1954 Grace Kelly film, Green...

I’ve enjoyed blogging about screenwriting, but it’s occurring to me why I’ll never be a popular blogger (not that I particularly want to...

I am a lifelong Sox fan, but don’t hate me, I am from New England. I more than did my time watching them lose—especially as a little kid...

I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger, film score collecting self that one day I’d be arguing with Hans Zimmer personally on...

I have spent some time on “Screenwriting Twitter” following aspiring/emerging screenwriters and sometimes engaging in their...

This spoof by Peter Serafinowicz came up in my Facebook feed from friends and I admit I watched 30 seconds before I realized, hey, that’s...

When we started the FSM record label, we did our own fulfillment. This lasted until the fall of 2004 when I reached total burn out: if...

I am halfway through watching “Squid Game” and this show is the real deal. I wish it hadn’t taken me two episodes to figure out I needed...

On December 1, 1993, I did a phone interview with Elliot Goldenthal, who I was excited to talk to because of his scores to Alien3 and...

Our social media overlord, Facebook, informed me that today is Andy Dursin’s 47th birthday. Happy birthday, Android! That’s a very old...

If you were a sci-fi fan in the 1980s, pre-Internet, your access to the larger “worlds” behind your favorite franchises (Star Wars, Star...

There was something yesterday called “Screenpit” (short for “Screenpitch”) which was meant to be a free showcase for screenwriters to...

When you try to break in as a screenwriter, you quickly discover that nobody wants to read your script. You also learn that, if they do...

I loved Marvel Comics in the 1980s. I read them religiously from 1985–1989 and they were a huge part of my life. I’ll write more about...

I feel like telling the story of when I met John Barry. Please be warned, it is hardly a consequential story. But it happened, so here...

I’ve talked about the “Daily Music Report” that was part of M-G-M’s music scoring paperwork from the 1930s through the 1970s. This is an...