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From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 86 21:15 PST
Subject: ied just reKords iT and puts it into his machine...
Greetings, Love-Hounds, from IED0DXM. Today's issue of the Daily Variety included a review of the film "Castaway". This is almost certainly the film for which (Doug tells us) Kate contributed the theme song. Since she does not receive a credit for writing the music for the film (not that anyone here said she would), it is safe to say that if they decided to use her performance at all, it was just a vocal version of the film score theme. (This was the case with Kate and "The Magician of Lublin" -- score and theme song by Maurice Jarre {anyone happen to know who wrote the lyrics to that one?} -- and "Brazil", and was nearly the case with "Moonraker"...) The composer of the soundtrack for "Castaway" is veteran scorer Stanley Meyers. He's done scores of scores (ha, ha), but off hand IED can think of only one memorable one by him: "Billion Dollar Brain". The review makes no comment about Meyers's score, much less about Kate's possible performance of the theme. The movie itself stars Oliver Reed and a young British starlet named (if IED remembers correctly) Amanda Donahoe. It is directed (and here's why Kate probably got involved in the movie) by Ken Russell, who is known to have made one of the movies Kate was moved and inspired by, his biographical film about Delius. The review is very mixed, saying essentially that the lead actors are dynamite, but that the film itself has no plot or interest, that it is surprisingly tame and mainstream for Russell without being better than if it weren't, and that the girl goes about nude in most of the movie while Oliver Reed is always artfully obscured from view by a strategically placed palm frond. (Fine with IED! Have you seen how seedy Oliver Reed looks lately?) The movie is now definitely out in Europe, so perhaps we'll hear the news about Kate's connection from our English and Scottish Love-Hound contributors soon? Speaking of "The Magician of Lublin", perhaps Doug has deciphered some of the lyrics sung by Kate in the movie? That is the one KT track which IED cannot stand to listen to -- not because of the song, but because that damn Alan Arkin is yelling his foul dialogue over it, and it's impossible to follow the music. This has got to be the most colossal waste of talent ever condoned by a film company: why get Kate Bush to sing your theme song if you're going to drown it out in loud, surly Americanese? There was a full-page ad for "The Whole Story" in the December 6 issue of "Billboard", quite artfully handled, using the quotation from "Running Up That Hill": "Come on angel, come on darling, Let's exchange the experience." In the latest issue (December 13), "The Whole Story" is the first "Pick" of the week LP, with a very positive review. IED was amazed to find two of the original marbleized cassettes of Hounds of Love in Tower the other day. He duly snatched them up for possible future bartering clout. Any T-shirt news yet? Doug, can you explain why not even "Don't Give Up" has been shown on MTV? We're not naive enough to be expecting a screening of "Experiment IV" yet from that evil corporation, but wouldn't you think the follow-up video from a Recent-Number- One-in-the-U.S.A.-artist like Gabriel would get shown once in a while, even if it WASN'T the U.S. follow-up single? Or is IED all wrong, and they've actually been showing it alot? One reviewer said in reference to Kate's appearance that it was "treacly" or summat like that. Incidentally, "Big Time" is to be the third PG single in the U.S. Also incidentally, MTV is going to begin a UK/Europe cable/satellite edition early next year -- twenty-four hours a day, as in the U.S. R.I.P. U.K. Doug, have you seen some of the hidden lyrics people are starting to hear in HoL songs and writing in to Break-Through to report? All quite inaudible at this end. Can you confirm any of them? If there really is going to be a KT covers project, IED will contribute a minimalist interpretation of the painful cries of mothers and the terrifying scream.