II.
January 1999-April 2000
January
2, 1999: "Purple Rain/When We Were Kings."
January
9, 1999: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Takes the Radio Hostage:
The Negotiator/The Taking of Pelham One Two Three."
Interviewed: Film Score Monthly writer Doug Adams, Len P. Feldman
of GIST.com.
January
16, 1999: "Tickle Me Elmore." (Originally aired: August 8, 1998)
January
23, 1999: "The Truman Show/Smoke Signals." Interviewed:
Film Score Monthly writer Doug Adams.
January
30, 1999: "Special Super Bowl Weekend Edition." Interviewed:
Film Score Monthly editor Lukas Kendall. The first hour of this
sports-themed episode featured scores from sports movies like Rocky
(Bill Conti), The Natural (Randy Newman), Hoosiers (Jerry
Goldsmith) and Rudy (also Goldsmith). Then in the second hour,
The Power and the Glory, a soundtrack of music from the NFL Films
documentaries, took center stage. That year, no other soundtrack received
as many phone calls as that one. Also, Kendall discussed The Power
and the Glory and put his money on Atlanta. Bad move, Lukas.
February
6. 1999: "Solid Goldsmith (Part 1)." Interviewed: Film Score
Monthly writer Jeff Bond.
February
13, 1999: "Solid Goldsmith (Part 2)." Interviewed: Len P. Feldman
of GIST.com, Cupid fan Jonathan Hobbs. The conclusion of
a two-part Jerry Goldsmith birthday salute. Feldman discussed Goldsmith's
Star Trek: First Contact score, as well as the composer's much-talked
about 1998 Carnegie Hall concert, in which the audience went so gaga over
his ubiquitous Star Trek march and his tango theme from Six
Degrees of Separation that Goldsmith and his orchestra gave encore
performances of both pieces. The show concluded with a segment that had
nothing to do with Goldsmith, but with Valentine's Day—I interviewed
Hobbs about my favorite new TV show at the time, the critically acclaimed
but low-rated romantic comedy series Cupid, starring Jeremy Piven
and Paula Marshall. ABC put Cupid on hiatus the week of Valentine's
Day, and the Atlanta-based Hobbs was one of several fans who launched
an Internet campaign to save the show. It wasn't successful, so after
only about five months on the air, Cupid had to hang up his arrows and
his diaper.
February
20, 1999: "Special Black History Month Edition (Part 1): In the
Heat of the Night/The Blaxploitation Era."
February
27, 1999: "Special Black History Month Edition (Part 2): Eve's
Bayou/Do the Right Thing."
March
6, 1999: "Independents' Day: A Fistful of Soundtracks Tribute
to Independent Filmmakers." Interviewed: the Independent Film Channel's
Mark Lipsky and Jonathan Shair, Salon film critic Andrew O'Hehir.
March
13, 1999: "Quincy Jones/Stanley Kubrick." Interviewed: Film
Score Monthly writer Doug Adams.
March
20, 1999: "Special Independent Spirit Award and Oscar Preview."
Interviewed: Santa Cruz Sentinel film critic Wallace Baine, the
Independent Film Channel's Mark Lipsky and Jonathan Shair. The only Oscar
preview show that wondered whether Ashley Judd will wear panties or not
this year.
March
27, 1999: "I Want to Live!/Johnny Cool." Interviewed:
writer Patrick McGilligan. A show focused solely on Rykodisc's reissues
of the soundtracks to I Want to Live! (Johnny Mandel) and the obscure
1963 gangster movie Johnny Cool (Billy May). McGilligan, who wrote
the liner notes for both CDs, discussed both soundtracks.
April
3, 1999: "The General/The Magnificent Seven."
Interviewed: poet/film critic Morton Marcus, Rykodisc's Ian Gilchrist.
The first hour centered on John Boorman's underappreciated 1998 film The
General, about the life of Irish thief Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson).
In between selections from Van Morrison saxophonist Richie Buckley's score,
Marcus talked about the film and its complex portrayal of Cahill. The
second hour was a birthday salute to Elmer Bernstein, and it focused on
Rykodisc's long-awaited release of his celebrated Magnificent Seven
score. Gilchrist, a producer of the CD, discussed Bernstein's energetic
score, a milestone in Western movie scoring.
April
10, 1999: "The Nickelodeon Theatre's 30th Anniversary/Anatomy
of a Murder/I Want to Live!" Interviewed: the Nickelodeon's
Jim Schwenterley and John Woodard, UCLA law professor and Reel Justice
co-author Michael Asimow, writer Patrick McGilligan. Schwenterley, the
owner of Santa Cruz's Nickelodeon art-house theater, discussed the 30th
anniversary of this Surf City fixture. Woodard, one of the Nick's managers,
was also interviewed. The rest of the show centered on the soundtracks
to Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington) and I Want to Live!
(Johnny Mandel). Asimow, who co-wrote Reel Justice, a book about
courtroom movies, discussed Anatomy and its accurate portrayal
of criminal law, while McGilligan, who wrote the liner notes in the I
Want to Live! CD reissue, gave his thoughts on the 1958 Susan Hayward
film and its score.
April
17, 1999: "Henry Mancini/Miklos Rozsa/Johnny Cool." Interviewed:
writer Patrick McGilligan.
April
24, 1999: "Loni Ding." A rebroadcast of a December 1998 interview
with Emmy-winning Bay Area filmmaker Loni Ding, who discussed Ancestors
in the Americas, her documentary series about Asian immigrants. Her
Ancestors in the Americas films were featured at the 1999 Pacific
Rim Film Festival in Santa Cruz.
May
1, 1999: "Star Wars: A New Hope." During "May the
Force Be with You May," discussions with actors, critics and fans
about the Star Wars films were interspersed with selections from
the Star Wars soundtracks. Interviewed: former Jedi knight Mark
Hamill, San Jose Mercury News writer Charlie McCollum, Lincoln
Gasking of countingdown.com.
May
8, 1999: "The Empire Strikes Back (Part 1)." Interviewed:
Free Enterprise writer/producer Mark A. Altman, San Jose Mercury News writer Charlie
McCollum, Lincoln Gasking of countingdown.com.
May
15, 1999: "The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2)." Interviewed:
Free Enterprise writer/producer Mark A. Altman, San Jose Mercury
News writer Charlie McCollum, countingdown.com members Scott Bakalor
and Becky MacKnight.
May
22, 1999: "Return of the Jedi." Interviewed: Free
Enterprise writer/producer Mark A. Altman, Mark Hamill, Jarvis Mak
of countingdown.com.
May
29, 1999: "Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace."
Interviewed: Kenny Baker ("R2D2"), former San Jose Mercury
News film critic Julie Hinds, Film Score Monthly and eon
magazine editor Jeff Bond, Jarvis Mak of countingdown.com, Jeremy
Bulloch ("Boba Fett"), Mark Hamill.
June
5, 1999: "Danny Elfman's Birthday/Jim Faris." Interviewed: MGM
animation editor Jim Faris.
June
12, 1999: "A Fistful of Shagtracks." Interviewed: author and
spy-movie expert Michael Monahan.
June
19, 1999: "I'm Gonna Party Like It's 1989 (Part 1): Batman."
Interviewed: Mark Hamill, Free Enterprise writer/producer Mark
A. Altman, comic-book writer Doug Murray (The 'Nam), Music for a Darkened People's Ryan Keaveney,
online film critic Steve Kong. On the 10th anniversary of the release
of Tim Burton's 1989 version of Batman, this edition centered on
the Danny Elfman score, interspersed with remembrances about the film
and its score.
June
26, 1999: "I'm Gonna Party Like It's 1989 (Part 2): Do the Right
Thing." Interviewed: Mark A. Reid, editor of the Do the Right
Thing Cambridge Film Handbook, and S. Craig Watkins, author of Representing:
Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. On the 10th anniversary
of the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, this edition
centered on the Bill Lee score album and the Motown song album, interspersed
with remembrances about the film and its score.
July
3, 1999: "Terence Blanchard's Jazz in Film/The Songs from
Summer of Sam." Interviewed: S. Craig Watkins, author of Representing:
Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema.
July
10, 1999: No show.
July
17, 1999: "Independents' Day: A Fistful of Soundtracks Tribute
to Independent Filmmakers." (Originally aired: March 6, 1999)
July
24, 1999: "Gerald Fried." Film and TV composer Gerald Fried
(Roots, Star Trek) talked at length about his music, including
the scores he wrote for the first four films of his childhood friend Stanley
Kubrick.
July
31, 1999: "Anatomy of Anatomy of a Murder." Interviewed:
UCLA law professor and Reel Justice co-author Michael Asimow, Anatomy
of a Murder soundtrack reissue producer and WKCR-FM jazz deejay Phil
Schaap. This show centered on Columbia/Legacy's expanded edition of the
Duke Ellington Anatomy of a Murder soundtrack, reissued as part
of Ellington's 100th birthday celebration. Reissue producer Phil Schaap
discussed the project and how another Ellington fan, Wynton Marsalis,
made him appreciate the score even more than he did previously. Asimow,
a columnist for the Picturing Justice Web zine and the co-author
of Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies, explained why
Anatomy is "probably the finest pure trial movie ever made."
Also featured was commentary from Ellington himself, from a 1959 radio
interview.
August
7, 1999: "A Fistful of Shagtracks." (Originally aired: June
12, 1999)
August
14, 1999: "Hitchcock's 100th." Interviewed: the Bernard Herrmann
Archive's Christopher Husted, UC Santa Cruz art history lecturer and Hitchcock
fan Allan Langdale.
August
21, 1999: "Desperado/Six-String Samurai." (Originally
aired: October 24, 1998)
August
28, 1999: "Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace/Lost
in Space." (Originally aired: May 29, 1999/April 24, 1999)
September
4, 1999: "The Living Daylights." (Originally aired: November
7, 1998)
September
11, 1999: "Alexander Nevsky/Jason and the Argonauts."
Interviewed: the Bernard Herrmann Archive's Christopher Husted.
September
18, 1999: "Anatomy of Anatomy of a Murder." (Originally
aired: July 31, 1999)
September
25, 1999: "Send in the Crowns: A Fistful of Soundtracks' Thomas
Crown Affair Special." Interviewed: Film Score Monthly
critics John Bender and Daniel Schweiger.
October
2, 1999: "King Kong." Interviewed: Turner/Rhino soundtrack
producer George Feltenstein, author Daniel Bernardi (Star Trek and
History: Race-ing Toward a White Future).
October
9, 1999: "Mondo Morricone '99." Fistful's annual birthday
salute to Il Maestro, Ennio Morricone. Interviewed: soundtrack producer
Didier C. Deutsch, Film Score Monthly critic-at-large John Bender.
October
16, 1999: "Hitchcock's 100th." Interviewed: the Bernard Herrmann
Archive's Christopher Husted, UC Santa Cruz art history lecturer and Hitchcock
fan Allan Langdale, Alfred Hitchcock Presents... Signatures in Suspense
producer Didier C. Deutsch. (Originally aired: August 14, 1999)
October
23, 1999: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Halloween Special 1998."
(Originally aired: October 31, 1998)
October
30, 1999: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Halloween Special 1999."
Music from the soundtracks to Stigmata, Stir of Echoes,
The Sixth Sense and Vampyros Lesbos. Also: the studio gets
attacked by zombies.
November
6, 1999: "A Fistful of Soundtracks 2000." Interviewed:
Free Enterprise writer/producer Mark A. Altman.
November
13, 1999: "Tomorrow Never Dies/The World Is Not Enough."
Interviewed: Mr.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang editor James
Rumley, Ian Fleming Foundation co-founder John Cork.
November
20, 1999: "The Legend of 1900/Cinema Paradiso."
Interviewed: soundtrack producer Didier C. Deutsch.
November
27, 1999: "The Mann Show." Music from Michael Mann films. Interviewed:
film critic Michael Sragow (the Baltimore Sun, Salon.com).
December
4, 1999: "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." Interviewed:
Film Score Monthly and eon magazine editor Jeff Bond, Star
Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack reissue producer Didier C. Deutsch.
December
11, 1999: "Goldfinger/The Godfather Part II."
Interviewed: author David Ehrenstein (The Scorsese Picture: The Art
and Life of Martin Scorsese, Open Secret: Gay Hollywood, 1928-1998).
December
18, 1999: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Christmas Special 1999."
Music from The Nightmare Before Christmas and animated holiday
specials like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Year Without
a Santa Claus. Also: the studio is visited by the Chorus of Department
Store Santas, who can carry a tune as well as they can hold their liquor.
December
25, 1999: No show.
January
8, 2000: "A Fistful of Soundtracks 2000." (Originally
aired: November 6, 1999)
January
15, 2000: "The Mann Show." (Originally aired: November 27, 1999)
January
22, 2000: "D'oh!-Re-Mi: A Fistful of Soundtracks Tribute to
The Simpsons."
January
29, 2000: "The Best Scores of 1999."
Interviewed: Film Score Monthly editor Lukas Kendall.
February
5, 2000: "Solid Goldsmith." Fistful's annual birthday
salute to Jerry Goldsmith.
February
12, 2000: "Anatomy of Anatomy of a Murder." (Originally
aired: July 31, 1999)
February
19, 2000: "A Jones for Quincy Jones." Interviewed: Film Score
Monthly writer Doug Adams.
February
26, 2000: "Tryin' Ta Get Over: A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield."
Interviewed: S. Craig Watkins, author of Representing: Hip Hop Culture
and the Production of Black Cinema.
March
4, 2000: "Film Music at UCSC." Interviewed: UCSC music professor
David Cope.
March
11, 2000: No show.
March
18, 2000: "Superman: The Movie." Interviewed: Superman
soundtrack reissue producer Michael Matessino. (Go here to read a transcript of this show.)
March
25, 2000: "Award Weekend." Interviewed: John Wilson, founder
of the Razzie Awards. Fistful's annual Oscar preview show.
April
1, 2000: "April Fools Day." This show centered on comedy scores
and had me pulling not one, but two April Fools pranks: the show opened
with the themes from Star Wars, Goldfinger and The Good,
The Bad and the Ugly played backwards, and then was interrupted by
an angry, foulmouthed listener named Tony who didn't find the prank funny—and sounded an awful lot like Tony Clifton, Andy Kaufman's
abrasive lounge-singer character. Tony's phone calls, as well as profanity-laced
songs from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Blazing
Saddles, resulted in one of the most bleeped-out shows in Fistful
history. (The guy providing Tony's nasal voice was none other than...
yours truly.)
April
9, 2000: "A Jones for Quincy Jones." (Originally aired: February
19, 2000)
April
16, 2000: "Solid Goldsmith." (Originally aired: February 5,
2000)
April
23, 2000: No show.
April
30, 2000: "D'oh!-Re-Mi: A Fistful of Soundtracks Tribute to
The Simpsons." (Originally aired: January 22, 2000)
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