Yesterday we listenend to excerpts of Max Steiner’s score for ‘The Big Sleep’. I’m rather enjoying divorcing these rich orchestral works from the pictures they were designed to play under so today I’m presenting Miklos Rozsa’s score for ‘Double Indemnity’ (1944). It’s impossible not to visualize the opening shot of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxJrRhazLcM Here’s a rocking good version of one of my favorite Sondheim songs from ‘Follies’, the intricately prosaic and wonderfully sour ‘Buddy’s Blues’. It’s performed by Alexander Gemignani and was part of the Sondheim 90th birthday virtual TV concert, which thanks to the pandemic gave us performances via Zoom. Yet
Right, then. Salt Lake City. Sundance 2000. The story of selling “Two Family House”. Anybody still care? Anybody reading this? HELLO!!! The guys from USA films were very enthused about the movie and naturally this alerted the other distributors, who showed en masse to our second screening the following night,
All right, so I got busy and have only posted intermittently. And what the hell of it? Heres a nice link to a nice review of “Tis Autumn” (available now on Amazon!). And here’s another one. And now we’ll wrap up this mini-history of “Two Family House” which all began due to the stage
Okay. So I skipped a week. Would you like to know what I’ve been doing all this time? If only I could remember… But I digress. And whatnot. When was Columbine? April 20, 1999. Why do I care? Simple. Because that dates when the pre-production phase of “Two Family House”
So it’s late 1998 and I’ve heard from Al Klingenstein and Jim Kohlberg (via Anne Harrison, my producing partner) that they want to make the film. This is the problem with show business. The least likely things happen and the most obvious ones don’t. Which leads you to keep putting
The main character in the film “Two Family House” (and our new musical “Buddy’s Tavern”) is a kind of mid-century, outerborough everyman named Buddy Visalo. Oddly, ever since I made the film, people have asked me if I “knew the real Buddy”–as if there was something about him and his
Onward, blog-ho. Here’s how we got here, re: this musical of ours, “Buddy’s Tavern”, now playing in Norwich, Connecticut. But first, click here for Wikipedia’s unexpectedly informative page about my film “Two Family House”, on which the musical is based. “Two Family House” began life as a screenplay which I wrote
Last night I attended the official opening night of a musical we made of my film “Two Family House”, which I wrote and directed and which was released in 2000. We call our musical “Buddy’s Tavern”–really I should have titled the film that but was stupidly talked out of it