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...played every instrument. He released a superb solo album under his own name two years later but got entangled in protracted legal bloodletting with the head of his former label, Saul Zaentz (who is also the much Oscared producer of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The English Patient). It's a fight that continues to this day. "I haven't been paid properly in 17 years," Fogerty says. "That will give you a handle on why I was so angry." He didn't record again for almost 10 years, and when he did, on 1985's smashing...
...many crew members are focusing on improving overall industry conditions by curtailing hours. In a campaign prompted by Hershman's death, Haskell Wexler, a renowned cinematographer (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), is leading a petition drive to impose a 14-hour workday. "People are working as zombies," he says. Among those who have signed are Julia Roberts, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Nichols, Sally Field and Harold Ramis...
...Holocaust. Heavily influenced by the totalitarian oppression he witnessed, he chose to celebrate the freedom of the United States in his latest work. Prior to "Larry Flynt," Forman has enjoyed a prolific directing career and has twice received the Oscar for best director: first for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and again for "Amadeus...
...beginning of the first movement, which always calls to mind both the Rhine music in Wagner and the opening of the Brahms 2nd, was here also reminiscent of the tense introduction to the finale of the "Symphony Fantastique." The offstage trumpets and cuckoo-like clarinet were truly awesome. The strings sounded as tight and together as they do on recordings from the legendary Szell era, but much more joyous when they got to the main theme. It comes from Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfaring Lad" (the lied seemed to be the organizing principle of the whole concert...
...tried to accept that finding calmly. Given the widespread speculation in the press recently about the possibility that Perot has always been a cuckoo bird, I figured that the discrepancy might be explained by the human tendency to remember what we wish we had done rather than what we did. It's possible that a survey taken now among baby boomers would indicate that almost none of them wore either Nehru jackets or bell-bottom blue jeans in the late...