Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect expression of Holly Golightly's sweet ambiance or a deft summation of a caviar girl recalling the days of grits and gravy. Then again, it may be simply lazy schmalz, dressed to the airy glamour of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Whatever the secret of its appeal, Moon River is the most successful melody to come from a film score since the classic Picnic theme six years ago. And its composer, Henry Mancini, has become Hollywood's hottest musicman. Says the modest Mancini: "I don't know how it happened, but there it is." Home...
...Mancini soon switched from television to the movies. After copping two Oscars last month (for Moon River and the Tiffany score), Mancini has producers stacked up at his door pleading for his services - and with cause. For they have discovered that Mancini's unorthodox orchestration can give quality to routine episodes, add drama to stock situations...
Just Sipping. In the Breakfast at Tiffany's score, he sets off his melodies with a walking bass, extends them with choral and string variations, varies them with the brisk sounds of combo jazz. Moon River is sobbed by a plaintive harmonica, repeated by strings, hummed and then sung by the chorus, finally resolved with the harmonica again. Says Mancini: "It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came...
...Moon Pilot. A skillful Walt Disney comedy about nervous astronauts and slow-thinking...
...cover that measured distance. Dr. Lowther proposes to improve this experiment by using the pure brilliance of newly developed lasers (TIME, April 20) and new electronic techniques. He hopes to pinpoint the speed of light to three parts per 100 million, which will give the distance to the moon within...