From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #570 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Friday, December 17 1999 Volume 02 : Number 570 In This Digest: (exotica) Top Shows Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop (exotica) new web resource and list Re: (exotica) twink (exotica) Discount CDs online (exotica) coupons, schmoupons Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of Your Century Re: (exotica) Gabor Szabo (exotica) California Dreamers? Weekend finds (exotica) Cheers! (exotica) Discount coupons (exotica) [obit] Early Wright (exotica) [obit] Milton A. Rudin Re: (exotica) coupons, schmoupons Re: (exotica) the tale of two Bravos (was coupons, schmoupons) Re: Re: (exotica) the tale of two Bravos (exotica) What is the First Babada Sunshine Pop Song? (exotica) [Fwd: Tom Cruise in Tune With 'Meet the Shaggs' Project (exotica) blank media levy Re: (exotica) twink Re: (exotica) coupons, schmoupons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:12:50 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Carlson Subject: (exotica) Top Shows A short list: Blue Beats/Gary "US" Bonds/Isley Brothers/Soupy Sales; Waterbury, CT, Spring 1965. Bonds and Isley's were just incredibly kinetic, jumping, dancing, leaping. The Isley's guitarist even played with his teeth and behind his back! Soupy was good, too. The Wildweeds; Cheshire Teen Center (YMCA), Cheshire, CT, Spring 1966. Best band out of CT, ever. Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Wallingford, CT, Summer, 1968. The Pigboy Crabshaw line-up, his swankest by far. Hot summer day, skinny-dip in Mill River, had the Galaxy 500 for the day, show was in a big open tent, *very* mellow, man. Elvis Costello/Nick Lowe; Shaboo, Storrs, CT, 1979 The three-minute pop masterpiece lives on. Pentangle; Waltham Middle School, Waltham MA, 1992(?) Bert Jansch, Jaqui McShee, and John Renbourn briefly re-united for a night of dreamy, delicate folk airs. Sounding better than ever, too. Craig __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:44:40 -0500 From: "Kevin Kovelant" Subject: Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop > I know it sounds stupid. "I really love all those late sixties ba ba ba > records". No actually, this makes a lot of sense. I had this exact conversation with my father over Thanksgiving. I had jokingly mentioned that I spend more time in the Easy Listening sections of music stores now, than in the regular Pop sections. This also tied into his making fun of me for just turning 30. In any event, he asked me what I was listening to, and I said "You know, a lot of those 60's records that have all the 'ba ba ba bas' on them." He laughed, and knew instantly what I was talking about. So, maybe its not so far-fetched after all. > But if everybody started calling it "ba ba ba", after a while it would > sound normal. You have my vote! - -Kev # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:36:49 -0500 From: oudies@flash.net Subject: (exotica) new web resource and list Announcing a new discussion list and website resource for media-culture-politics! *~* Why Lacan? Must Lacanian theories ultimately smuggle in a foundationalism? Does Zizek politicize or perhaps even radicalize Lacanian theory with a critique of ideology? *~* Herzog's films; Chemical Brothers music/videos--desire and the eroticizing gaze *~* Just how evil is postie theory. < you know the drill ;-) > *~* Art and Poetry and Science --what makes them Art and Poetry and Science? Why the distinction? Who benefits and who doesn't? *~* What counts as CyberPunk? Should we ask? The above are just a taste of the conversations crystallizing at Pulp Culture. What is Pulp Culture? PULP (pulp) n. 1. the fleshy, succulent part of fruit; 2. any soft, formless substance, as of disintegrated matter, esp. wood fiber used for making paper. v. to squeeze, press, knead. CULTURE (kul-chur) n. 1. a society or group characterized by its distinctive practices, customs, beliefs; 2. an appreciation for art, literature, music; 3. improvement by care or training in a special environment. PULP CULTURE: to press, squeeze, knead, or shape the juicy, fleshy, succulent bits of culture, media, and politics. Pulp Culture is an e-mail discussion list and (eventually) 'zine focusing on critical engagements with and analyses of media/culture/politics. From the fleshy, sweet acidity and pulpy bits of popular media/culture to the tough, bitter rind of Culture to the tendinous fibers of the political economy, we want to "pulp culture" from a variety of critical, practical and theoretical perspectives. Our aim, as well, is the reconstruction of theory. That is, we want to "pulp theory" in order to interrogate its presuppositions and to examine the conditions of its possibility. Discussions at Pulp Culture, then, are intended as interventions in the terrain of ongoing theoretical, cultural and ideological-political struggles inherent in the production/consumption of media/culture in all its forms. To join the fun, fray and fissures at Pulp Culture send a subscription message to: majordomo@infothecary.org. In the body of the message type, s*bscribe pulp-culture. Please note that Pulp Culture is an active list with 50-150 posts per day. There's a lot of energy, excitement, argument --but most of all good-natured comraderie and fun. You may prefer to receive to the digest version, even so. If you'd like the daily digest version type, s*bscribe pulp-culture-digest in the body of a message sent to majordomo@infothecary.org. To learn more about Pulp Culture check out the rind at http://www.flash.net/~oudies/pulp_culture.htm See you at Pulp! Ken Mackendrick, University of Toronto Kirsten Nielsen, Infothecary.org # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:38:17 EST From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) twink << Found a record at the flea market today that I never knew existed and I am a bit excited. Ken Nordine "Twink". viva la nordine!>> I'll drink to that - congratulations are in order here as you struck gold Jonny Yuma. Way to go! (no CD) Any leads on where to find that Japanese Green Hornet reissue? Speaking of Japanese, Preston's latest issue of Exotica/Et Cetera has a little piece on "The Whimsical Music of Takashi Okada". Okada and Hisaya Macabe are aka the VAGABOND CINEMA POPS ARKESTRA. there are a couple of releases, "Promotional Only (from outer space) and "Who Wants The Hula Hoop" on daisy world discs, but I have no idea where to find them. I did a web check and came up with another 9 track title "The Old Music Master" at Daisy World's site - they have not replied to my email yet. I talked to Preston just today and hopefully he'll have more info soon on how to purchase. In the meantime, if any of you have any leads on availability, please let me know. I *finally* had my first listen to the Soulful Strings' MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (Cadet 1968) which showed up on my doorstep and it is one of the hippest, coolest xmas LP's I've ever heard. Includes the great Dorothy Ashby on harp on many tracks and a truly amazing cover of Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy with Ron Steele on sitar. Find it! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:05:44 -0800 From: "Stephen W. Worth" Subject: (exotica) Discount CDs online Wayno wrote: >I'm specifically talking about CD Now, who >has been offering $10 discounts on purchases of at least $14.99 >(shipping and taxes aren't included in the coupon eligibility >calculations). However, most domestic discs are priced at $13.99 >or lower, and their prices on imports are generally so high that >ten dollars off still isn't much of a deal. Just to add my own crass commercial plug... Spumco has struck a deal with Tower Records to offer folks who click through the banners on our site free shipping. The Tower website is usually two or three bucks cheaper per disc than their retail store, so it might end up being cheaper for you for small orders. You have the added benefit of helping to make the next episode of the Goddamn George Liquor Program happen that much sooner. Go to http://www.spumco.com and click through the banner at the top of the page. I just got the new Esquivel CD at Tower for $13.99. For comparison most of Esquivel's other albums are available as low as $8.99 ($5.99 used). With free shipping that comes out to be pretty cheap. See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 415 E. Harvard St. Ste. 204 Glendale, CA 91205 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:33:45 -0800 From: Jim Gerwitz Subject: (exotica) coupons, schmoupons Wayno wrote: inventory that sells for a dollar or so, just enough to let you qualify for> that ten dollar savings. I've yet to find anything.> CDnow knows what they are doing, the bastards, and apparently they are now in merger talks with Columbia House! I recently found a $3.99 Astrud gilberto CD with a disco version of ipanema, another cut with Chet Baker half-nodded out and some other decent stuff i don't think i have on her other records. It qualified me for $15 off $30 combined with the $27 Japanese Lizabeth Scott CD I just HAD to have. And a tip of the fedora to chuckm, who recommends those Cafe collections from the old Time and related labels - Cafe Bongo, Cafe Java, etc,about $4 and not bad. Then You could always try a cheapo cassette or CD single in the pop vocal or country genres. A tip - save stuff to your wish list - you never know when something on there will turn up on sale, and you won't mind spending a few more bucks to save $10 or more - they had a Bardot greatest hits for $16 a few weeks back, its now $23 - would have been great for a $14.99 coupon, but then i saw and ordered her box set. BTW, last winter they had a big import sale. The coupon amounts vary - some are $10 off $19.99, so you could get those two fine new girl group comps on West End (west side?) records or a couple Del-Fi cheapos. WWW.DVDpricesearch.com allows you to search for DVD's by price range parameters (i.e more than $5 less than $10)at one or more on line stores. This is useful for those Reel.com $10 off $25 coupons. Someone in the forum at www.DVDtalk.com (a GREAT resource) asked if they had something like that for CD's, but all anyone came up with were price comparison sites(mysimon.com) where you already have to know what you are looking for. Or you could sell a John Wayne LP and Bedazzled on eBay and have $250 for a DVD player and get a really really nice look at Hanoi Jane in the opening scenes of Barbarella. Or you could spend an hour a day for a friggin month at one of those damn ad-click sites to earn CDNow gift certificates, or this weekend go test drive an Oldsmobile Alero and get a $50 CDnow gift certificate!!! JB Le Noir # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:53:18 +0900 From: Jamie LePage Subject: Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of Your Century Bump wrote: > >>Performing rights group BMI has named "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " > >>as the most-performed tune of the century. > > > WHAT B.S!!! Aren't we lucky to be able to listen to so much cooler music? > can i get a amen my brothas and sistas! With all due respect, no amen from me. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " is classic Brill Building pop, flawlessly executed by Phil Spector and his army of top class studio musicians (many of whom are lauded here for their work on more exotica-oriented recordings). Absolutely not trying to start a flame war here or anything, but I do think the appreciation of music should cross genre lines, and a great song (and great recording) should transcend whatever walls we create by digging our own "niche" as it were. It is very difficult for me to imagine anyone with a keen appreciation of quality music so casually dismissing this great Phil Spector/Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil composition. Later Bump wrote: >[soft pop] is definitely my favorite form of EZ listening. OK. Common ground here! :-) Jamie "ten people ten colors" LePage # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:17:52 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Gabor Szabo At 02:56 PM 12/16/99 -0800, chuck wrote: > >Been listening to "Jazz/Mystticism/exotica", "Wind, Sky and Diamonds", >and "Bacchanal" by Gabor Szabo and I am wondering if he has other albums >like this, or other albums that are different yet better (more exotic) than >these three. I don't have "Jazz/Mysticism" but I do have "Wind, Sky", "Bacchanal" PLUS "1969" on Skye with versions of "Dear Prudence", "Walk Away Renee"... "More Sorcery", a live album on Impulse, which is okay but avoidable "Gypsy 66" on Impulse with Gary McFarland and then "His Greatest Hits" On Impulse, two record set "The Best of Gabor Szabo", also on Impulse, one record. One thing you can say is that none of those records is anything like "Wind, Sky" which to me, is more of a "soft pop" or a "bababa" record. It's more a "California Dreamers" record than a Gabor record. And given that the California Dreamers "became" the soft pop heroes "The Love Generation", I think I'm on fairly safe ground there. The other thing you have to say is that Gabor was a (legitimate) jazz guitarist, appearing on Chico Hamilton records, among others. A lot of his best stuff, for me, walks this fine line between "real jazz" and his exotic "gypsy-influenced" Now sound. But it's not all like that and occasionally dips into straight jazz, which is less interesting for me. If I wanted to be careful about his stuff, I'd just check out the tunes. He does the only instrumental cover of the Nancy/Lee classic "Some Velvet Morning" that I know of. I'd buy anything of his where he covers pop tunes. I'd buy the other stuff too but I'd expect less. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:25:21 +0000 From: Subject: (exotica) California Dreamers? Weekend finds With mention of the Califrnia Dreamers, I've just remembered a couple of weekend puchases. I got a reissue of Tom Scott and the California Dreamers. Don't remember the title, very psychedelic cover, but is this what you mean by Soft Pop? Very vocal without a lead vocal, quite jazzy and very 'soft'? This is an unexplored genre for me and I know there's been a lot of discussion on the list about this sort of stuff. Have I dipped my toe into the lake of soft pop or have I just bought a jazz record thats pretending to be a soft pop record? Is there even a difference? Also picked up a bootleg compilation called Discotheque - very very similar to In Flight Entertainment. Excellent choices of British easy listening and hammond grooves but very badly pressed including one track which is replicated on both sides, a big mark on the intro to the first track (Augusto Alguero - very cool!) and 22 tracks in total so all very quiet. The rest of my weekend finds were funk records so I'll leave it at that. Charlie charles_moseley@mckinsey.com +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message may contain confidential and/or privileged | | information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to | | receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, | | disclose or take any action based on this message or any | | information herein. If you have received this message in | | error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail | | and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:04:39 +0100 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: (exotica) Cheers! (Reuters) San Francisco, a bit envious of New York City's giant dropping "ball" to signal the arrival of the new year, is hoping to steal some attention by dropping a 10-foot "olive" into a seven- storey-tall martini on Union Square at midnight on December 31. "This is going to put San Francisco on the map as the 'Big Olive', just as New York is the 'Big Apple'," said a spokeswoman for the St. Francis Hotel, which is behind the stunt. But the Rev. Cecil Williams, who has plans for a open-air prayer vigil on Union Square, is aghast. "Is this the kind of message to be sending on the new millennium?" he asked, adding the spectacle will be a "distraction" from his services. But the St. Francis defends its plans. "We are entirely respectful of the interfaith community, but we feel that the martini is an icon of today's world," their spokeswoman said. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:31:51 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Discount coupons Bob wrote: > > What with those $5 and $10 off coupons they offer, I couldn't > >help myself... > I was just wondering where one finds one of those $10 coupons It was someone on this list that first discovered the Deardeer site. Since we have to endure so much advertising anyway on the web, its only fair we should get someting back in return. This site finally delivers! Here it is: http://i.am/deardeer Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:55:43 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Early Wright December 17, 1999 Early Wright, 84, Disc Jockey Who Made the Delta Blue, Dies By DOUGLAS MARTIN Early Wright, who became a legend in the blues-drenched Mississippi Delta as one of the South's earliest black disc jockeys, died in a Memphis hospital on Dec. 10. He was 84. For more than half a century, Mr. Wright broadcast blues and gospel to the people of the Delta on radio station WROX, seldom identifying artists or song titles on the assumption that listeners should already know them. The giants of the blues -- B. B. King, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk and Pinetop Perkins among them -- played live on his shows. In the early 1950's, he provided Ike Turner with one of his earliest steady gigs; Mr. Turner's band sometimes played for an hour. "That was a beautiful record I dropped on you for your listening pleasure," Mr. Wright would say, often as cars honked in appreciation outside the WROX studio at the corner of Third and Yazoo in Clarksdale, Miss., where he also lived. One night an obscure Mississippi country boy showed up. His name was Elvis Presley, and he impressed Mr. Wright with his politeness and showmanship. "He always had a motion, you know," the disc jockey said. But it was a folksy, countrified style that most characterized Mr. Wright's broadcasting approach. In 1988 Living Blues Magazine told of the time he plunged into a five-minute rap about an infestation of snakes in black neighborhoods. "I want to let you know that some snakes has been seen in the Roundyard neighborhood," he began. "The grass has grown up around the sidewalk and the snakes has been seen, looking for water." He ignored prepared advertising copy, preferring to extemporize. "At the M & F Grocery and Market, the aisles are so big that two shopping carts can pass each other and never bump into each other," he once said. "And everything in the store has a price on it. You don't have to worry about what it costs because the price is right there on it." The result was that "everybody in Clarksdale thought he was talking directly to them," said Jim O'Neal, a writer and record producer who was the founding editor of Living Blues. He said Mr. Wright "represented radio as close to the center of the community as you can get." Guy Malvezzi of Connerly's Shoe Store in Clarksdale agreed. "You got your money's worth with Early," he said. About a decade ago, Mr. Wright began to be given honors unimaginable in 1947 when he became Mississippi's first black disc jockey. Clarksdale named the road that went past his neat brick house, the one with two pink flamingos in the front yard, Early Wright Drive. The Center for Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi established a scholarship in his name. Mr. Wright once said he was born on a farm at 3 a.m. on a Monday in 1915 in Jefferson, Miss. In 1937, he moved to Clarksdale and used his expertise as a mechanic to open an auto repair business. He was part-time manager of a gospel group, the Four Star Quartet, when his announcement for the group caught the ears of WROX. The white-owned station offered him a job in 1947. After consulting his preacher to make sure there was nothing sinful about playing blues records on the radio, Mr. Wright decided to give it a try. He did it six days a week almost until his death, on what became one of America's longest-running radio programs. From 6 o'clock to 9, he was the "Soul Man," playing the blues. For the last two hours, he was "Brother Early," playing gospel music. In 1997, Mr. Wright survived multiple bypass heart surgery. Three months later his daughter, Barbara, died of lung cancer at 41. Between his surgery and his daughter's funeral, the station was sold. Mr. Wright decided to retire. He had a heart attack on Nov. 8. Another daughter, Patricia, died of a brain tumor in 1981 at age 29. Mr. Wright is survived by his wife, Ella; two sisters, Annie Lott of Youngstown, Ohio, and Genell Haggan of St. Louis; two brothers, Julius Johnson of Chicago and J. T. Johnson of Casper, Wyo.; and seven grandchildren. Mr. Wright, who was seldom seen without a coat and tie, once said he "grew up on the hard part of the highway." He is remembered for his personalized stream of patter. In a typical program, as reported in The New York Times in 1989, he would introduce "an extinguished guest," then play the blues of Bobby Rush or the gospel of the Mighty Sons of Glory, then rhapsodize about Dip's Drive-in Laundromat. Community news -- for instance, who was about to be "funeralized" -- might follow. He always had time for a commercial, like this one for a local store: "They have a full-figured dry goods store specializing in large sizes with stockings up to size 200. Wow!" he said. "Under the same roof is Miss Louise's Typing Service. She can do letterheads, obituaries, funeral directories, term papers. "She's a wonderful person. Go tell her you heard about her on the radio." - -------------- *Frances Patzman BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Frances Patzman, who at 110 years old was older than her home state, died Wednesday, just weeks shy of seeing her third century. She celebrated her 110th birthday in October. Her daughter-in-law, Ellen Patzman, said she was looking forward to reaching 110. ``She mentioned that many times. And we said, 'Grandma, then you've got to make it to January and you'll have lived in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries,''' Ms. Patzman said. Mrs. Patzman was born on Oct. 12, 1889, in Germany. North Dakota, where she lived most of her life, became a state Nov. 2, of that year. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:57:49 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Milton A. Rudin December 17, 1999 Milton A. Rudin, 79, Lawyer for Sinatra and Other Stars By TODD S. PURDUM,NYTimes LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 -- Milton A. Rudin, an entertainment lawyer who represented celebrities from Marilyn Monroe to Liza Minnelli and who for more than 30 years was Frank Sinatra's chief counsel, defender, investment partner and friend, died Monday of pneumonia at a rehabilitation center near his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 79. In a career of more than 50 years, Mr. Rudin, who was known as Mickey, stood in the thick of the Hollywood swirl. He was often called on to answer questions about Sinatra's gambling interests and the singer's acquaintances with underworld figures, and repeatedly filed lawsuits over accounts in the news media that he saw as unflattering, unfair or infuriating. As Marilyn Monroe's lawyer and the brother-in-law of her analyst, Ralph Greenson, he was among the first on the scene when the star died of a drug overdose in 1962. Thickset and jowly, Mr. Rudin had cameo roles in four movies, twice portraying a judge, leading his clients to give him the nickname "The Judge." His other clients included Lucille Ball and Desilu Studios, for 25 years; Warner Brothers, for 30 years; the moguls Marvin Davis, Steve Ross and Stephen A. Wynn; plus Elizabeth Taylor, Norman Lear, the Jackson Five and the Aga Khan. He represented Ms. Minnelli from the beginning of her career until he effectively retired last summer. "He was a one-of-a-kind good friend, great lawyer and also a very funny guy in a kind of an ominous way," said the veteran television producer and director George Schlatter, a friend for 35 years and a client for 15. Mr. Rudin, a New York City native, was a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, and of Harvard Law School. He cut his teeth in entertainment law here in the 1950's in the firm of Martin Gang, a pioneer in the field, who became well known in the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy for helping arrange testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee by "friendly" entertainers seeking to avoid the blacklist. But it was Mr. Rudin's association with Sinatra that brought him the most prominence, as a public spokesman and private adviser, responsible for some of the most delicate tasks. According to "Sinatra, Behind the Legend," J. Randy Taraborrelli's 1997 biography, it was Mr. Rudin who handled Sinatra's divorce from Mia Farrow, told the singer's disapproving mother, Dolly, that Sinatra was marrying his fourth wife, Barbara Marx, and informed Sinatra of the death of his second wife, Ava Gardner. Mr. Rudin also advised Mr. Sinatra on business matters, and the two once joined in an unsuccessful bid to take over the Del E. Webb Corporation, which owned several hotel-casinos in Nevada. In later years, Mr. Rudin's focus shifted to libel and copyright actions defending the star's reputation. A particular nemesis was the author Kitty Kelley, whom Mr. Rudin twice sued unsuccessfully, first seeking to halt publication of "My Way," her unauthorized 1986 biography of Sinatra. That suit was eventually dropped, but Mr. Rudin later filed a libel suit accusing Ms. Kelley of ruining his practice by thanking him as a source for her 1991 biography of Nancy Reagan, which suggested an affair between the First Lady and Sinatra. In 1995, a Federal appeals court upheld dismissal of the suit, saying that Mr. Rudin could not prove he had been harmed. Mr. Rudin also sued Barron's for defamation because it once referred to him as Sinatra's mouthpiece, but a judge dismissed that suit, too, ruling that "the average Barron's reader" would not consider the term defamatory. In 1987, he and Sinatra ended their lawyer-client relationship for reasons that were never made clear, but they remained friendly, and Mr. Rudin attended the singer's funeral in 1998. "It was like a divorce," said Lee Solters, a longtime publicist for both men. "More friendly afterwards." Mr. Rudin was active in many philanthropic causes and had served as a trustee of Reed College and as past regional board chairman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is survived by his wife, Mary Carol; a son, Michael, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; and two daughters, Pamela, of Irvine, Calif., and Lisa McGrady of Reno. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:06:47 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) coupons, schmoupons Jim Gerwitz wrote: > Or you could sell a John Wayne LP and Bedazzled on eBay and have $250 > for a DVD player and get a really really nice look at Hanoi Jane in the > opening scenes of Barbarella. For those of us that don't have the Bedazzled LP, and don't want to purchase it on eBay, and are lucky enough to get Bravo on TV, they are broadcasting Bedazzled tonight at 9 pm (eastern) - I'm not sure if the US Bravo station will be running it, but it will be on in Canada. cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:40:32 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) the tale of two Bravos (was coupons, schmoupons) >For those of us that don't have the Bedazzled LP, and don't want to >purchase it on eBay, and are lucky enough to get Bravo on TV, they are >broadcasting Bedazzled tonight at 9 pm (eastern) - I'm not sure if the >US Bravo station will be running it, but it will be on in Canada. Bravo Canada and Bravo US are totally different animals, totally different schedules. Bravo US is the one that cuts the movies to bits and adds lots of commercials. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:48:07 -0500 From: wlt4@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) the tale of two Bravos >schedules. Bravo US is the one that cuts the movies to bits and adds >lots of commercials. And registered a service mark in the phrase "world cinema" which they used to threaten my independent website (at the time called "World Cinema Review") with a law suit. Brief version of story at http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/wcr.htm LT # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:13:15 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) What is the First Babada Sunshine Pop Song? With this discussion about "Sunshine Pop" as performed in the mid?/late 60s by the Association, Harpers Bizarre, Spanky etc,, I have been wondering what might be the first sunshine pop song? Any suggestions are welcome. As food for thought, Leslie Gore's "Sunshine Lollipops" certainly contains many elements of Sunshine Pop. However, its only double tracked with group vocals in the background. If the song was harmonized with a few vocalists or the group vocals were more up front this would be a perfect fit. Its good to see you post again on the list Jamie and I certainly agree with you about "You've Lost That Lovin Feelin" , what an impressive group of talent came together to produce this classic! Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:22:45 -0600 From: Kerry Subject: (exotica) [Fwd: Tom Cruise in Tune With 'Meet the Shaggs' Project Oh my lord..... > Tom Cruise in Tune With 'Meet the Shaggs' Project > By Oliver Jones > > NEW YORK (Variety) - Tom Cruise is going low-fi. > > His production company has optioned a New Yorker article called ``Meet the > Shaggs,'' about an obscure pop group decreed by Frank Zappa to be ``better > then the Beatles.'' > > Cruise, along with his producing partner Paula Wagner, will develop the > project through the duo's Paramount-based shingle, C/W Prods. The article > was written by New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, whose novel ``The > Orchid Thief'' is being turned into a feature at Columbia Pictures. > > Orlean's Shaggs article follows the group's rise, fall and eventual > rehabilitation. Formed in the hamlet of Freemont, N.H., the Shaggs consisted > of the Wiggins sisters, three shy, awkward teenagers with unfortunate > haircuts and thick New England accents. Despite their lack of musical > interest or ability, their Dad forced them to record a rock album because > his mother had a premonition that they should. > > They went on to make 1972's ``Philosophy of the World,'' a record that was > commercially DOA until Zappa heard it. Rock historians have since > rediscovered the record (available on CD from RCA Victor), declaring that > its arrhythmic, out-of-tune bleating augured every dissonant music movement > from Ornette Coleman to Sonic Youth. Two of the sisters performed in > November at NRBQ's 30th anniversary celebration at the Bowery Ballroom. > > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991217/re/film_shaggs_1.html > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:01:49 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) blank media levy Canadian brethren & sistren, stock up on blank media post haste. A new tax levy is going into effect. http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news-e.html m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:06:48 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) twink At 10:38 PM -0500 12/16/99, BasicHip@aol.com wrote: >Any leads on where to find that Japanese Green Hornet reissue? drop a line to- michael@allmusicservices.com br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:25:16 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) coupons, schmoupons You might also try putting in a label search. The Cafe Bongo is on a chepo llabel and laserlight label search turns up some goodies. Thanks Jim for the tipped fedora and you gotta love the smell of those cds with the actual coffee beans in the spine! I learned about these from another exoticat. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- Jim Gerwitz wrote: And a tip of the fedora to chuckm, who recommends those > Cafe collections from the old Time and related labels - Cafe Bongo, Cafe > Java, etc,about $4 and not bad. Then You could always try a cheapo > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #570 *****************************