Summa This, Summa That
I don't like it quite as much as Sarah does (for mostly film-snobbish reasons), but it's got a really fun cast (including a great turn from the ever-great Ed Harris), makes great use of a fantastic, Copland-esque score from the legendary James Horner, and boasts one of the most absurdly-implausible-yet-true stories ever.
I'm listening to the finale of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's 3rd Piano Concerto (in B Minor), about which Greenberg says that while it is "mostly 'finger' music, consisting of scales and arpeggios in the style of Classical pianism, rather than 'arm' music that features huge leaps and thundering sonorities, it is a minefield of technical treachery." A "minefield of technical treachery," you say? Sounds awesome! (Literally. Heh.)
I'm not looking forward to it; not at all. The man's voice has been the mellifluous backbone to one of my life's greatest passions. I'm not even sure what baseball sounds like without him. But let's celebrate while we've got the chance. (The feedback bit from this clip is the best thing I've ever heard.)
Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt was a champion rodeo rider, and early film actor, and an influential second-unit director and action coordinator. Oh, and he was John Wayne's stuntman. And mentor. And he played a huge role in Wayne's on-screen persona. (Wayne himself said that he "spent weeks studying the way Yakima Canutt walked and talked. He was a real cowhand.")
