Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...master of the memorable musical motif and the splash of orchestral color remains Williams, 63. From the ominous, if oft-parodied, "dum-dum, dum-dum" tune for the shark in Jaws (itself an homage to a theme from Hermann's Psycho) to the soaring melody of the mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Williams has a knack for creating the perfect musical counterpoint to the fantastic images on screen. "We all look up to him," says Kamen. "He invigorated the idea that the orchestra is the way to go when making film scores. He emphasizes the tonal...
...Love from The Three Musketeers and Everything I Do from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, both sung by Bryan Adams. Kamen recalls that he had to fight to get his sinuous, elegant main theme into the movie Don Juan de Marco. "The director [Jeremy Leven] hated the tune," he recalls. Yet when Bryan Adams lent his vocals, it became Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?--and another No. 1 hit. "The theme was right: that's what you can hang your...
Featherstone continued, "She has the extraordinary ability to tune in with what you're trying to accomplish and help you without changing your own style...
...More 'I Love You's,'" is an evocation of love's demons in which a woman's bed of sad passion telescopes into a child's bedroom fears. A reworking of Paul Simon's "Something So Right" closes out the album and answers the pessimism of the first tune with a simple, stately vocal reworking of Simon's lyrics: "Some people never say the words 'I love you,'/But like a child I'm longing to be told...
...would like the sweet power of persuasion to be the key to success." He might have a receptive audience in Winnetka, Illinois, where members of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood became so concerned over the pervasive negative influence of the Power Rangers that they organized a TV Tune-Out week last winter. Says Winnetka developmental psychologist Jeanne Beckman: "If parents would sit down and watch that program from beginning to end, they would be shocked at what they...