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Labor Day Crossword Music & Work Puzzle

Labor Day may be a day for leisure, but this week’s Classic Ross Amico crossword is all about music and work.

To fill out the puzzle, follow the link and select “solve online” at the bottom of the page. You’ll then be able to type directly into the squares. Once you feel you’ve exhausted the puzzle, you’ll find the solutions by clicking on “Answer Key PDF.”

An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. Keep yourself occupied here:

https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2020.09/0605/06055955.150.html

September 6, 2020
Music & Laziness A Ross Amico Crossword Puzzle

Calling all couch potatoes: today’s Classic Ross Amico crossword is devoted to the two things I like best – music and doin’ nothin’.

To fill out the puzzle, follow the link and select “solve online” at the bottom of the page. You’ll then be able to type directly into the squares. Once you feel you’ve exhausted the puzzle, you’ll find the solutions by clicking on “Answer Key PDF.”

Eat, drink, and be lazy. Take a very leisurely glance by following the link here:

https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2020.08/3006/30065103.288.html

August 30, 2020
Puss in Boots & Robinson Crusoe on Mars Tonight

Swashbuckling cats and monkeys on Mars!

You’ll be able to marvel at both this evening, on another Classic Ross Amico double-feature.

First, Antonio Banderas sends-up his Zorro persona in “Puss in Boots.” We’ll enjoy music from the film, composed by Henry Jackman, alongside selections from James Horner’s score for “The Mask of Zorro.” The balance of the hour will be devoted to Alfred Newman’s music for the Tyrone Power vehicle “Captain from Castile” and Max Steiner’s score for the Errol Flynn classic, “The Adventures of Don Juan.” Gen-Xers may recognize some of the latter from its use in “The Goonies!” Enjoy it this week, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Friday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Then Roy Bjellquist and I will talk ourselves red-in-the-face about the Red Planet, and “Robinson Crusoe on Mars.” Paul Mantee (who took his stage name from Humphrey Bogart’s Duke Mantee), Victor Lundin (who abandoned an operatic career to become a film actor), and Adam West (soon to be TV’s Batman) test their mettle on a foreign world. But that’s okay, since apparently there’s food and oxygen. As the poster states: “This film is SCIENTIFICALLY AUTHENTIC… It’s only one step ahead of present reality!”

FUN FACT: Barney the Woolly Monkey was outfitted with a fur diaper so that he could effectively play female space simian Mona.

Join us for the Facebook live-stream, and be prepared to exchange comments, at Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, tonight at 7:00 EDT!

https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/

August 28, 2020
Insect Symphony August Crossword Puzzle

It’s August, and the insect choirs are out! Wing your way over to this week’s Classic Ross Amico crossword for a musical celebration of our six-legged friends.

To fill out the puzzle, follow the link and select “solve online” at the bottom of the page. You’ll then be able to type directly into the squares. Once you feel you’ve exhausted the puzzle, you’ll find the solutions by clicking on “Answer Key PDF.”

Catch a buzz! Flitter with the critters here:

https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2020.08/2306/23064546.142.html

August 23, 2020
Gilded Age & Martian Chronicles Double Feature

It’s Friday afternoon! Nearly time for another Classic Ross Amico double feature.

First, at 6:00 EDT, all that glitters is not gold, as we listen to music from movies inspired by novels set during the Gilded Age (post-Civil War to around the start of World War I), including selections from “The Heiress” (Aaron Copland), after Henry James, “The Age of Innocence” (Elmer Bernstein), after Edith Wharton, “The Magnificent Ambersons” (Bernard Herrmann), after Booth Tarkington, and “Mr. Skeffington” (Franz Waxman), after Elizabeth von Arnim. That’s on “Picture Perfect,” on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Then, at 7:00 EDT, Daniel Day Lewis is conspicuously absent, as we depart the Age of Gold for the Red Planet and Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles.” Rock Hudson leads an all-star cast in this NBC miniseries, produced in 1979, through the magic of no-budget special effects and quasi-disco interludes. There’s plenty of talent on-hand, both in front of and behind the cameras, but somehow it all just doesn’t hang together. That’s my opinion, anyway. Roy Bjellquist and I will talk about it tonight, live-streamed on Facebook, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner:

https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/

Join the discussion or leave a comment.

We come in peace! (Sorry about the chicken pox.)

August 14, 2020

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