Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2004/10

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Movie about fictional clarinet player
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:35:06 -0400

Today's Balticon Newsletter (an irregularly published e-mail letter to
people who attend Balticon, an annual science fiction convention in
Baltimore, Maryland) includes this item:

>Tananarive Due's fantasy novel "My Soul to Keep"
>has been Greenlighted by Fox Searchlight Pictures
>with full funding. Blair Underwood will be the Producer
>and star. Rick Samuyiwa will be the director and he is
>preparing a full draft of the script at this time. Principle
>photography has not been scheduled. Tananarive Due
>will be one of the Guests of Honor at Balticon 39 in 2005.

Since the movie is still in pre-production, the mathematical odds are
strongly against it getting produced, let alone released; but the item
reminds me that the hero of "My Soul to Keep" is a vampire who's a
professional jazz clarinet player. When this novel was first published, I
gave it a highly favorable review in a small press journal: "No Good
Monsters," Necrofile #28, Spring 1998, p. 18 -- although I did have to
point out that some of the technical information about clarinets is bogus,
alas. (The title of the review is a double entendre, related to a
quotation from the book.) Does anybody know whether Blair Underwood plays
the clarinet? A real pro probably would play on the soundtrack, but it
makes a big difference in a movie about a musician if the star plays well
enough to look convincing instead of ridiculous.

Lelia Loban
Regime change begins at home: Re-defeat Bush in 2004!

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