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About Me
Some Desert Island Discs
GANG OF FOUR: Entertainment
LOVE: Forever Changes
THE BEACH BOYS: Sunflower
AIR: Talkie Walkie
LIQUID LIQUID: Liquid Liquid
DEL SHANNON: Home & Away
!!!: Louden Up Now
THE CURE: Disintegration
JOHN BARRY: Body Heat
THE SMITHS: The Queen is Dead
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Born to Run
RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS: Blank Generation
ELVIS COSTELLO: Get Happy!!!
TELEVISION: Marquee Moon
MARVIN HAMLISCH: The Swimmer
JOHN WILLIAMS: Superman
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Back to Mono
MARVIN GAYE: What's Going On
GOBLIN: Dawn of the Dead
THE WHO: Quadrophenia
TALKING HEADS: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
ARTHUR B. RUBINSTEIN: Blue Thunder
GIORGIO MORODER: American Gigolo
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Larry Levan, Journey Into Paradise
BUZZCOCKS: Operator's Manual
VANGELIS: Blade Runner
TANGERINE DREAM: Thief
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Crème De La Crème: Philly Soul Classics And Rarities
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Cruising
ELMER BERNSTEIN: Heavy Metal
BELLE & SEBASTIAN: If You're Feeling Sinister
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Hearing is Believing, The Jack Nitzsche Story
CURTIS MAYFIELD: Superfly
THE FEELIES: Crazy Rhythms
DELTA 5: Singles & Sessions 1979-1981
MICHEL LEGRAND: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
SLOWDIVE: Souvlaki
ESG: A South Bronx Story
TALK TALK: It's My Life
NEW ORDER: Substance
DAVID BOWIE: Low
ENNIO MORRICONE: Once Upon a Time In America
FRANCOISE HARDY: Comment Te Dire Adieu
4 comments:
Wow, that is fantastic! If only... Altho, I do like what Richard Gere did with the role but still...
Yes, Richard Gere should, if he hasn't done so already, thank Johnny Travolta for letting him feast on his scraps...AMERICAN GIGOLO and AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN.
Word was that Travolta was too busy flying planes / getting licensed to work on AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN. He kept turning down other Paramount projects to the point that he HAD to do STAYIN' ALIVE, which he did not want to do, but needed to do to fulfill his Paramount contract.
As for AMERICAN GIGOLO, in the production updates section in one 1979 issue of Film Bulletin, it was said that Travolta bowed out due to an issue / sickness in his family (his grandmother?) and that he felt the role was too close to the one he played in the previous year's box office bomb MOMENT BY MOMENT.
Interesting trivia bits! Also, the Travolta-Gere connection extends to DAYS OF HEAVEN. Malick wanted Travolta originally but he couldn't get out of his WELCOME BACK KOTTER contract and so Malick had to go with Gere! Go figure...
That's right...I had heard about the DAYS OF HEAVEN story before, but I had forgotten it. Good call.
Of interest from the Warner Archive, is Robert Mulligan's BLOODBROTHERS, with Gere playing a Bronx variation on Tony Manero a year after SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Based on a great novel by Richard Price, the film still feels too melodramatic and unfocused for my tastes and Gere is too old to be playing a 19 year-old, but I dig the upbeat Elmer Bernstein main theme and the cast of heavyweights: Paul Sorvino, Tony LoBianco, and Kenneth McMillan, plus many other recognizable "New York types" from the era. Watch for some great moments between Sorvino and McMillan and Sorvino and Gere.
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