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...entertainment that sends one back to Hitchcock, the masterly Vertigo in particular, for comparison. Obsession is a triumph of style over substance. Vilmos Zsigmond's camera, constantly on the move with a sinuous grace, is romantic in a manner seldom seen now in the movies. The late Bernard Herrmann's score, like the many he did for Hitchcock and Welles, is an instrument of flight, lifting the viewer up and over such resistance as he may have to the movie's patent improbability...
Died. Bernard Herrmann, 64, innovative film composer who won an 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...
Some TV shows can be at least as educational for the performers as the audience. Actor Edward Herrmann, who will portray President Franklin Roosevelt in a Jan. 11-12 special titled Eleanor and Franklin, was less than two years old when F.D.R. died in 1945. "Until recently, I knew very little about him," says the actor, "except that my father didn't like him and my mother did." Besides Herrmann's show, which COstars Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt, the small screen will soon show at least two more documentary dramas based on America's past. Arthur...
Robert E. Herrmann Los Angeles
RICHARD F. HERRMANN San Diego...