VI.
June 2001-April 2002
June
3, 2001: "Past & Present." An old piece by a film composer
is followed by a selection from one of his/her more recent soundtracks.
June
10, 2001: "Total Request Almost Live." Requests from listeners
who thought Fistful broadcasts live (it doesn't).
June
17, 2001: No show.
June
24, 2001: "Your Bond Song Stays on My Mind." The fourth anniversary
show. A salute to the Bond theme song, featuring classics like "Goldfinger,"
"Diamonds Are Forever" and "You Only Live Twice,"
plus Bond song parodies from The Simpsons and Austin Powers:
The Spy Who Shagged Me and selections from one of my favorite CDs
of the moment, Shirley Bassey: The Remix Album… Diamonds Are Forever.
July
1, 2001: "Summer Overtures." Selections with a summertime theme,
like "Summer Overture" from Requiem for a Dream and "Father
to Son" from Do the Right Thing.
July
8, 2001: "Fistful in Concert." Selections from the live
albums Cinema Concerto—Ennio Morricone at Santa Cecilia
and The Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer.
July
15, 2001: "Every Good Hero Should Have Some." Heroic theme music.
July
22, 2001: "Up, Up and Away." Movie themes and musical numbers
related to flight.
July
29, 2001: "Gorillas in the Mix." Music from the Planet of
the Apes movies. Interviewed: TV Guide Online film critic Frank
Lovece.
August
5, 2001: "Fistful Remixed." Film music remixes from such
albums as Morricone RMX and Shirley Bassey: The Remix Album...
Diamonds Are Forever.
August
12, 2001: "Fistful on the Run." Music from movies with
"run" in the title or an "on the run" theme, including
Run Lola Run, Midnight Run, Chicken Run and Blade
Runner.
August
19, 2001: "April Fools Day." (Originally aired: April 1, 2001)
August
26, 2001: No show.
September
2, 2001: "Summer Overtures." (Originally aired: July 1, 2001)
September
9, 2001: "Past & Present." (Originally aired: June 3, 2001)
September
16, 2001: "Fistful in Concert." (Originally aired: July
8, 2001)
September
23, 2001: "ABCD." Selections from soundtracks to movies that
begin with the letters A, B, C and D.
September
30, 2001: "Back to School." Fistful marks the return of—blah!—school with campus-related music
from films like Back to School, To Sir with Love, Rudy,
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Virgin Suicides,
School Daze and even those naughty Schoolgirl Report German
porno flicks.
October
7, 2001: Preempted.
October
14, 2001: "Mondo Morricone 2001." Fistful's annual birthday
salute to Ennio Morricone.
October
21, 2001: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Halloween Special 1999."
(Originally aired: October 30, 1999)
October
28, 2001: "Creature Features: A Fistful of Soundtracks Halloween
Special 2001." Music from the soundtracks to creature features like
Alien, Predator, Killer Klowns from Outer Space,
The Blob, Godzilla and Ghostbusters. Sketches include
"2001: A Spaz Odyssey," "Sexy Beast and the City,"
"Hannibal-bera," "Monster M*A*S*H" and "Roadkill
Rage." (Go here to read about the making of the special.)
November
4, 2001: "Stand Up and Score." Throughout the show, a clip of
a stand-up talking about a certain movie or genre will be followed by
a selection from the soundtrack of that movie (or a similar movie). The
stand-ups featured during the show are Rex Navarrete,
Paul Mooney, Carlos
Mencia and Pablo Francisco.
November
11, 2001: "A Tribute to New York." Two months after the attacks,
Fistful salutes the most resilient city in the world with music
from movies and series that were shot or set there. (Go here to
read a transcript of this show.)
November
18, 2001: "Turkey Day: Great Scores to Movies That Suck." (Originally
aired: November 19, 2000)
November
25, 2001: "Long Time, No Hear." Soundtrack tunes that haven't
been played on Fistful in a long time.
December
2, 2001: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Christmas Special 2000."
(Originally aired: December 24, 2000)
December
9, 2001: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Christmas Special 2001."
Music from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands,
Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics and the original (and superior)
version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Also: a segment on DVD
gift ideas for the holidays, featuring music from new DVD releases like
Shrek, the Godfather films, Twin Peaks and Star
Trek: The Motion Picture. Sketches include "A Christmas Story
Starring Charlton Heston" and "Christmas Fear Factor."
(Go here to
read about the making of the special.)
December
16, 2001: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Christmas Special 1999."
(Originally aired: December 18, 1999)
December
23, 2001: "A Fistful of Soundtracks Christmas Special 2001."
(Originally aired: December 9, 2001)
December
30, 2001: "Holiday Scraps." The post-Christmas show. Fistful
recovers from the holiday madness with selections from the scores to The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Ocean's Eleven,
Spy Game, The Last Castle and Shrek.
January
6, 2002: "Hard to Find." Rare, imported or out-of-print movie
music. Featuring selections from out-of-print scores like Under Fire
and Scarface and music from the first volume in Yoko Kanno's imported
series of soundtracks from the anime series Cowboy Bebop.
January
13, 2002: "Double Shots." Sets of two tracks for each artist.
January
20, 2002: "Bollywood Swingin'." Selections from the classic
Indian action-movie music remix compilation Bombay the Hard Way
and its new sequel, Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo.
January
27, 2002: No show.
February
3, 2002: "Take Two." Each tune is followed by an alternate version
or a cover of the same theme music.
February
10, 2002: "Solid Goldsmith." Fistful's annual birthday
salute to Jerry Goldsmith.
February
17, 2002: "The Best Scores of 2001." Selections from last year's
best original scores, including In the Mood for Love, The Lord
of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Ocean's Eleven and
The Royal Tenenbaums.
February
24, 2002: "Q." A Black History Month salute to Quincy Jones.
March
3, 2002: "Combination Platter." A show in the vein of "Holiday
Scraps" and "No Theme This Week Week," i.e. "This
week, I'll just slap together a bunch of movie tunes that I like and that
have no unifying connection whatsoever." Interviewed: Chi-Hui Yang,
director of the 20th
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
March
10, 2002: "Anniversary Director's Cut Special Edition." Music
from films that have gotten the "special edition" treatment
for theaters or DVD (Almost Famous, Vertigo, Star Wars,
Superman: The Movie, Spartacus, Akira, E.T.).
March
17, 2002: "It's Spring Again." Fistful marks—and
mocks—the beginning of spring.
March
24, 2002: "The Best Scores of 2001." (Originally aired: February
17, 2002)
March
31, 2002: No show.
April
7, 2002: "Spring Forward." Selections from soundtracks to futuristic
movies like Akira, Blade Runner and Cowboy Bebop: Knockin'
on Heaven's Door, plus an occasional Daylight Savings Time reminder
that you've lost an hour of your life. Not to mention the other four that
you wasted watching the Oscars.
April
14, 2002: "Unleash Hell." War is hell. So is trying to make
a movie about it. But sometimes, out of the most difficult circumstances
arises the finest music. This episode, which gets its title from the only
good line in Gladiator, consists of the most rousing and intense
attack/battle/charging themes ever written for film.
April
21, 2002: "Conduct Yourself Accordingly." Featured throughout
this show are selections from albums like Cinema Concerto—Ennio
Morricone at Santa Cecilia and the recently reissued Goldsmith
Conducts Goldsmith, in which film composers conduct new concert hall
arrangements of their own tunes. Tune in next week for "Copy Yourself
Accordingly," a show about James Horner.
April
28, 2002: "Themes Like Old Times." Another show in the vein
of "Combination Platter" and "Holiday Scraps," i.e.
"This week, I'll just slap together a bunch of movie tunes that have
no unifying connection whatsoever."
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