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...portrait of superannuated sex--"Forget that I'm fifty cause you just got paid/Suck, baby, suck, give me your head/Before you start professing that you're knocking me dead." But his evocation of transience and loss is even more vivid on "Five Years," a song that uses a cliched sci-fi formula--the sudden end of the world--to ingenious effect...
Futuristic sci-fi themes permeate Bowie's compositions. And for me, they increase the desperate quality of his songs. One has to be in the very depths of malaise in order to bank hopes on the possibility of star travel, extraterrestial visitors or any of the technological redemptions that Bowie offers in numbers like "Starman" or "Moonage Daydream." One of his most poignant cuts relates the paltry and vicious in everyday life, only to conclude with the mysterious chorus "Is There Life On Mars?" The frustration and loneliness is so extreme that a human solution is precluded...
...Academy Award at 30 with his music for All That Money Can Buy; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. Herrmann's association with Orson Welles dated from the radio days of the 1930s to his scoring of Welles' landmark film Citizen Kane. Later, for such Sci-fi thrillers as The Day the Earth Stood Still and Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, he mingled discordant wails of electronic instruments to evoke the sounds of rolling thunder or blood-curdling shrieks. Among Herrmann's nonfilm credits were his opera Wuthering Heights (1950) and a cantata, Moby Dick...
THEA MUSGRAVE, 47, has written chamber music, ballet and opera. "Music is a human art, not a sexual one," she says. "Sex is no more important than eye color." When Britain's Musgrave talks about "space music," she is not referring to synthetic sci-fi sounds but to compositions in which the players are directed to move about the concert hall...
...hadn't been able to reel any in. Then two Kodakolor snapshots of Whitmore trudging across the campground puffing on a pipe, wearing sneakers. Picture courtesy of Mrs. Ellen Scholl, Sheboygan, Wisc. The clip was ten years old--1965. Anyway, poor James Whitmore, star of the early fifties sci-fi feature Them, the hero of a couple of short-lived series like The Law and Mr. Jones, and a dead ringer for Spencer Tracy, is now getting a lot of attention for his portrayal of Harry Truman in this new movie, created from a play which Gerald Ford...