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Archive for January, 2005

Das allererste Captain Future Abenteuer wurde bereits im Jahr 1940 veröffentlicht. Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) schrieb die literarische Quelle für die Zeichentrickfassung von 1978. Die Geschichten wurden in Pulp Magazinen für 15 Cents/Stück verkauft. In der Zeit von 1940-44 erschienen vierteljährlich insgesamt 17 Ausgaben (im Herbst ‘43 erschien kein Heft) von Captain Future – Wizard of Science (bzw. Man of Tomorrow). Alle außer drei Ausgaben wurden von Edmond Hamilton geschrieben. Danach gab nur noch sporadisch neue Captain Future Geschichten.

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The greatest and most famous classic adventure-fantasy (and part-horror) film of all time is King Kong (1933). Co-producers and directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, gigantic, 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetypal Beauty and the Beast fable. [Fay Wray mistakenly believed that her RKO film co-star, 'the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood,' would be Cary Grant rather than the beast. Later in her life, she titled her autobiography "On the Other Hand" in memory of her squirming in Kong's grip.]

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Donald Byrd, a talented hard bop trumpeter during his prime (although rarely reaching the technical heights of Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard), performs a varied repertoire on Mustang!. “Dixie Lee” has dated rhythms, and “Mustang” was an attempt to achieve a hit on the level of Morgan’s “The Sidewinder.” However, Byrd sounds fine on those numbers; he digs into the complex chord changes of “Fly Little Bird Fly,” is sensitive on “I Got It Bad,” swings on his “I’m So Excited by You,” and performs his memorable countermelody to “On the Trail,” which had been recorded earlier by several other musicians. Teamed with a typically impressive Blue Note crew (altoist Sonny Red, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Walter Booker, and drummer Freddie Waits), Byrd performs high-quality straight-ahead jazz that fits the modern mainstream of the era. Also on the CD reissue are a pair of selections (“Gingerbread Boy” and “I’m So Excited by You”) from an earlier quintet date (with tenorman Jimmy Heath, Tyner, bassist Walter Booker, and drummer Joe Chambers) that, despite being excellent, went unissued until 1997.

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