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Sinbad Zardoz Fashion Film Fest Tonight

If you’ve got a passion for fashion, have I got an “Ideal” double feature for you!

I hope you’ll join me, as I present “A Thousand and One Nights at the Movies” on “Picture Perfect” – with selections from “The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad” (Bernard Herrmann), “Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger” (Roy Budd), “Aladdin” (Alan Menken), and “The Thief of Bagdad” (Miklos Rozsa) – at 6:00 this evening (EDT) on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Then at 7:00, I guarantee it will be all you’ll ever want to see of Sean Connery. The giant floating head wasn’t the only thing stoned in the making of John Boorman’s “Zardoz” (1974). Roy Bjellquist and I will engage in a spirited conversation about Brutals, Eternals, Renegades, and Apathetics, on the next “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.”

How catty will it get on the catwalk? As catty as we knead!

Catch it via Facebook live stream, and leave a question or comment!

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

For a hit of “Zardoz,” here’s the trailer:

And David Munrow’s arrangement of Beethoven’s 7th:

PHOTOS: Rocking the whole pony tail/red diaper thing, Rex Ingram as the Genie in “The Thief of Bagdad” (left) and Sean Connery as Zed the Exterminator in “Zardoz”

July 10, 2020
Zardoz Typecasting Actor’s Extreme Lengths

Just how far will an actor go to avoid typecasting?

No need to ask Sean Connery, so desperate to get away from James Bond that he exploded his cash cow by strapping on red-hot bandoliers, fire engine mankini, and thigh-high kink boots for John Boorman’s inscrutable masterpiece, “Zardoz.”

Join Roy Bjellquist and me as we chip away at a giant stone head (floating gracefully to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, then vomiting guns), explore the blurred relationships between myth, legend, and religion, and delve into the very mysteries of life and death, on the next “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.”

“Zardoz” is nothing if not ambitious. But did it – could it – ever rise to the level of its aspirations? When “Zardoz” opened in 1974, it was met by widespread confusion and scathing reviews. Is it possible that an overtly bad movie could actually mask a fairly good one?

46 years of brain bleach has been powerless to dispel the enduring WTF of “Zardoz.” I hope you’ll join Roy and me in slack-jawed wonder on the next Facebook live-stream of “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner,” this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT.

https://www.facebook.com/roytiediescificorner/?fref=ts

July 9, 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
Saint Cecilia Feast Day Music on WWFM

Hail! Bright Cecilia, hail!

November 22 is the feast day of Saint Cecilia – the patron saint of music.

Join me this afternoon at 4:00 on The Classical Network, as we celebrate with musical tributes by William Boyce, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins, Charles Gounod, George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Alessandro Scarlatti. We’ll also hear the “Serenade to Music” by Ralph Vaughan Williams and “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” narrated by Sean Connery.

At 6:00, look ahead to Thanksgiving on “Picture Perfect,” with selections from “Friendly Persuasion” (Dimitri Tiomkin), “Our Town” (Aaron Copland), “Plymouth Adventure” (Miklós Rózsa), and the building-the-barn sequence from “Witness” (Maurice Jarre).

There’s always plenty to be thankful for, musically speaking, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

November 22, 2019

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