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Meteor Disaster Avoided! Father’s Day Music

Wait? John Williams was supposed to write the music for “Meteor?” Well, I suppose it makes sense, following on his association with “The Poseidon Adventure,” “Earthquake,” and “The Towering Inferno.” Thankfully, this was one disaster he was able to avoid.

Share that sense of relief, as we enter the weekend with another Classic Ross Amico double-feature.

First, it’s all about Father’s Day – with music from “The Godfather” (Nino Rota), “Field of Dreams” (James Horner), “Life with Father” (Max Steiner), and “To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein) – on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, at 6 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Then Roy Bjellquist and I will take on The Mother of All Asteroids, as we dissect “Meteor,” on the Facebook live-stream “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner” at 7.

https://www.facebook.com/roytiediescificorner/

Getting ready to rock your world (literally). Mom and Dad would be so proud.

June 19, 2020
“Meteor” Movie Review A Disasterpiece!

Lord, do I hate “Meteor.” Despite having seen it under optimal conditions – at the late, lamented Loewe’s Astor Plaza in New York City, back in 1979 – it has persisted in my memory as one of the most excruciating couple of hours I have ever passed in a theater.

Now, 41 years later, thanks to Roy Bjellquist, I bite down hard on a strip of leather and re-subject myself to the torment, having been invited for the third week in a row to guest co-host on “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.” I hope you’ll join me, as I join Roy, in offering exhaustive background and sardonic insights into this stunning misfire – a disaster movie so disastrous that it cured even the most undiscriminating audiences of their mania for imperiled airplanes, capsized ocean liners, earthquake-ravaged cities, and blazing skyscrapers, until the advent of CGI. Falling close on the heels of “Hurricane” and “The Concorde… Airport ’79,” “Meteor” ensured that the genre went out in a blaze of ignominy.

An all-star cast (led by Sean Connery), a comet, a five-mile asteroid, and a five-dollar budget add up to a recipe for disaster! This had to be the blackest mark on the resume of even the lowliest intern. Even as a viewer, I still bear the scars.

If that’s not incentive enough for you to punch us up, I don’t know what is. I hope you’ll join Roy and me for the next “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.” The show will be live-streamed on Facebook this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT. It may not be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it still promises to be meatier than “Meteor.”

https://www.facebook.com/events/2765874766978123/

To quote a wide-eyed Karl Malden, “That meteor is five miles wide, and it’s definitely gonna hit us!!!”

June 18, 2020

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