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Thread #14683   Message #128277
Posted By: lamarca
26-Oct-99 - 03:17 PM
Thread Name: Important Movie Soundtracks?
Subject: RE: Important Movie Soundtracks?
Agree about Peter Gabriel, Max - he's one of my musical heroes. I was thrilled to see his show (couldn't really call it just a concert - it was a full-fledged theatrical piece) when he was touring Us! I never went to see Scorscese's Last Temptation of Christ, though - its star, "Willem" Dafoe just went by plain Bill Dafoe when I went to high school with him. After that role, the town fathers of Appleton, Wisconsin (hometown of Senator Joseph McCarthy) stopped asking him back to lead the Memorial Day parade and such...

Kat, the Peter Sellers movie was "Being There", adapted from the book by the late Jerczy Kozinsky, and is more and more scary to those of living "inside the Beltway" than ever before in its depiction of candidates as mere puppets of the unscrupulous forces and people behind them...