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Archives for February 2006
links for 2006-02-23
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A podcast of music recorded between 1888 and 1929 from the collection of the Edison National Historic Site.
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All the cheesy and formulaic conventions of Web 2.0 design in one easy to use template.
links for 2006-02-17
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Site listing an array of record labels that produced 78 RPM records, the artists who recorded with them, and the songs and years they recorded.
links for 2006-02-13
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Gypsy Jazz books, CDs, videos and accessories.
Lucky He Didn’t End Up Like Spider
When Joe Pesci tells you not to take his picture, you listen to him.
Anybody capable of pulling off the kind of performance he gave as Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas is obviously a sociopath.
Freeze!
Just before I was born, my dad managed to get a part as an extra in F.I.S.T., a movie Norman Jewison was filming in Dubuque, Iowa. The picture was actually Sylvester Stallone’s follow-up to Rocky. In it, Stallone plays a union leader who eventually becomes corrupt. Shocking plot twist!
The film is probably most notable because it was Joe Esterhas’ first screenplay to be made into a motion picture. Remember Joe Esterhas? No? Maybe you remember Showgirls and Jade. If you can believe it, they still actually let that guy write screenplays.
F.I.S.T. finally came out on DVD last month and I picked up a copy immediately. Through the magic of Virtualdub, I managed to isolate the two extremely brief shots in which my dad appears. In the first one, he’s third from the left, not counting the floating arm or the guy way in the background. He’s wearing a cap and a gray jacket with a brown collar.
In the second shot, he’s far in the back left bending over to move a barrel.
My dad was there for a week of filming and he only got about two seconds of screen time. Remind me never to be an extra in anything.
