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...same rival and lost and won the same woman above the fading velveteen seats of the Majestic Theatre at Pomona (pop. 900), 30 km inland from the Sunshine Coast. And on most of those nights, Ron West has provided the silent movie's voice on his Wurlitzer pipe organ, playing swirly harp sounds when the heroine swoons, shifting to a sinister key when the villain appears, and pulling up short when the hero reins his horse...
...late wife Mandy took over the Majestic in 1974, the old picture palace had long since adapted to the talkie, Technicolor times. Ron, whose father played the oboe in silent-movie orchestras in New Zealand, had been a church organist since his schooldays, when he took up the organ to get out of football. As a hobby, "a plaything that I thought would keep me busy into my retirement," he started restoring the Majestic's decrepit organ, gathering pipes and electrical switches from old theaters and churches as far away as Fiji...
...Gary does not do any official set design. Instead, she helps develop an overall aesthetic for “Pirates” through library and online research, which illustrators and designers then incorporate into their work. One of her major projects has been finding art ideas for the massive organ of pirate Davy Jones’ (played by actor Bill Nighy). That task eventually allowed her to be one of the first people to hear the music written for the instrument in composer Hans Zimmer’s studio. Though Gary has followed a different path from many recent College...
DIED. RYUTARO HASHIMOTO, 68, controversial former Prime Minister of Japan; of multiple organ failure; in Tokyo. A short-tempered politician and dapper dresser, Hashimoto achieved international fame as Trade Minister in 1995, when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party...
...DIED. Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, controversial former Prime Minister of Japan; of multiple organ failure; in Tokyo. A short-tempered politician and dapper dresser, Hashimoto achieved international fame as Trade Minister in 1995, when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party...