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Lies, Lies, Lies, Ye-ah
In 2003, I and many film score fans were livid that Elmer Bernstein did not win his second Oscar for FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002). The winner—Elliot Goldenthal for FRIDA—is a fine choice. Goldenthal is
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Frankie Says Relax
The career of Elmer Bernstein encompassed numerous genres—westerns, epics, comedies—but it was his use of jazz that first brought him attention. Bernstein had cut his jazz chops arranging for Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force
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Daddy’s Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird
"Only Aaron Copland could have come as close to creating the musical Americana that [Elmer] Bernstein put into his score." So said Page Cook in his original review of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Even
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Isn’t It Delectable?
“Everything today is thoroughly modern…” Well, not exactly, but that’s half the fun. A tongue-in-cheek musical spoof of the Roaring ’20s, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE stars Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, James Fox, John Gavin, and
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