Ivo Vynckier - My So-Called Blog

Technical writer-web writer. Student of Steven Spielberg's movies. Author, developer and web master of 3 web sites.

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Mitch gets transported from the hospital to the rehab center.

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Elaine Chao wears a black bra. How was Mitch, a stiff plank from Kentucky, able to keep up with that sexy little number?

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If we know Manchester at all, it's because of Brian Cox. Not because of mayor Burnham.

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PM or DJ? If Burnham keeps up this behavior, I'm definitely heading for the hills.

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Abdul Ballout. Rip his balls out.

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Nana Mouskouri had better glasses.

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Champagne socialism personified.

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Does somebody need a 70mm IMAX version of the documentary "Melania"?

Shit, the theatre would have to hand out a medical-grade sick bag with your $100 ticket.

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One Wildberries warehouse is on fire after the other.

Has the founder-CEO Tatyana Kim financed a $70 million unauthorized documentary on Vladimir's women or something?

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The American Revolution: no taxation without representation.

MAGA: representation by braindead senators.

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This kind of applies to Mitch McConnell now...

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Russian retailers lost their stock at the Wildberries warehouses, on fire after drone attacks.

Let them watch Ingmar Bergman's movie "Wild Strawberries". (In it, a man near death wonders if his life had any meaning.)

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PUTIN (Randy Newman)

Sometimes a people is greater than their leader

Germany, Kentucky, France

Sometimes a leader towers over his country

One shot at glory, they don't get a second chance

I dragged these peasants kicking and screaming

Into the 21st century

I thought they'd make it

I must have been dreaming

These chicken farmers and file clerks gonna be the death of me

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Ernie Watts is another saxophone players whose name you don't know... but you've heard him play in movies.

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More film music news?

Plas Johnson (94) has died. He's the saxophone player who played the Pink Panther theme.

Film composer Henry Mancini wrote it.

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A typical example of underscoring. The music requires no melody but simply has to reinforce the tension of the scene.

And when John Williams does it, this is the level of sophistication you get...

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John Williams' score for "Disclosure Day" comes close to the one he wrote for "Minority Report".