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...Carmine Coppola sees himself as something more than just another composer of film music. Collaborating with his son Francis Ford, the senior Coppola has written music for The Black Stallion, The Godfather, parts I and II, and Apocalypse Now. Now travelling across the United States with Napoleon, he conducts symphony orchestras through the score he wrote for the film. But while he shares his son's interest in film, Carmine Coppola says his compositions fall into two distinct categories: programmatic music composed in conjunction with other media, and pure music of a more personal nature...
After Napoleon has finished its American tour, Coppola will be able to return to the projects he abandoned to conduct his score. He intends to write the score for Francis Ford's two upcoming movies, The Back Stallion II, and The Little Mermaids, which is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. "I read that story recently for the first time. I want to capture the dreamy quality of it in my music," he asserts. Also in the works is a second opera, but first he wants to see Escorial performed; Sarah Caldwell has already expressed interest...
...riderless stallion, the orange fire truck rolled slowly toward the cemetery in Panama City last week, bearing a flag-draped coffin that was topped by a distinctive canteen, bush hat and gun holster. At the grave, a 21-cannon salute boomed as the coffin was lowered amid a torrent of flowers. Thus did Panama bid farewell to its strongman, Omar Torrijos Herrera, who was killed when his plane crashed four days earlier...
...much longer are film audiences to endure the tall, silent figure of Sylvester Stallone looming across New York in an endless repetition of the tough-guy-with-a-soft-spot role? Nighthawks, a meaningless jumble of The French Connection. Serpico and The Supercops, gives us the Italian Stallion in yet another variation on the theme, but without the wrenching brutality of Rocky, et al. We are left wondering from where the continuous fascination with Stallone arises...
Nighthawks boils down to just another cop-cum-chase scene thriller, with little action, less plot, and no originality. It is a pity that the film was released now: it might have made good drive-in fare. At last, we see the truth about the Italian Stallion: Rocky was a fluke, a rough-cut diamond of a film. By Stallone's inability to break out of the mold of the illiterate boxer, we perceive that the man cannot act any role but that of Sylvester Stallone. He is doomed to be the matinee idol, the star of B-movies like...