Klarinet Archive - Posting 000200.txt from 1998/05

From: "Carl Schexnayder" <carlsche@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: The Benny Goodman Story, and an Artie Shaw question
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 22:00:36 -0400

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From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: The Benny Goodman Story, and an Artie Shaw question

(Snip) On the other hand, some day Ken Russell will make a movie portraying
the
>late Lawrence Welk as a pedophile with a weakness for prescription cough
>medicine and doing strange things with Pete Fountain's clarinet....
>
>Ken

That would be more like it!!!!!!

Carl Schexnayder

>>> But Steve Allen, who really used to play the
>>> clarinet, played Goodman. He might have played the same make and model
that
>>> Goodman did, for authenticity.
>>
>>I think it's fair to say that "authenticity" was not a high priority for
the
>>producers of this film.
>>
>>I'm surprised Dan hasn't stepped in on this thread. It's one of his
favorite
>>movies.
>
>I think Steve Allen was pretty good on the instrument, but Goodman HAS to
>have dubbed the music himself.
>
>I remember seeing some of those 1940s "The XXXX Story," as in Benny
>Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, etc., when I was a kid. Not to
>mention Kirk Douglas doing a knockoff of Bix Beiderbecke in "Young Man With
>A Horn." Miller and T. Dorsey, like Goodman, were also supposed to be
>rat's asses in real life: I have heard people from that generation say that
>the best thing that ever happened to Miller's reputation came from being on
>that plane. Yet everyone got sanitized, beatified (at least), and
>portrayed as a familiar of Saint Cecilia. And the films got too painfully
>cute for words: even at 15 (I was precocious), I winced at the running gag
>in the Benny Goodman film about how everyone said to him "Oh Benny, don't
>be that way!" Gee, if that wasn't a cue for a song....
>
>I wonder what Hollywood back in the 1940s would have done with the lives of
>Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.
>
>On the other hand, some day Ken Russell will make a movie portraying the
>late Lawrence Welk as a pedophile with a weakness for prescription cough
>medicine and doing strange things with Pete Fountain's clarinet....
>
>Ken
>
>
>
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