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The Days of Wine and Roses
The Day of Wine and Roses (1962) was a beautiful film. The music was composed by Henry Mancini and the lyrics, by Johnny Mercer. They received an Oscar, the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The film was directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name.
By the way, I sent the news yesterday, with J’attendrai, but it went away.
The News
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/ Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/ EN CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/ French Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/ Le Monde diplomatique: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/ Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/ La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/ German Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/ © Micheline Walker 24 July 2012 WordPress
Thanks for the visual tour of my city. Mancini and Mercer also used Andy for Moon River, with better results. I’d have Sinatra’s version, but my dad used to like a harmonica-only version, I think was by Ray Conniff, which I used to hate. Anyway, Mancini has some great gems most people don’t know about, such as the theme for Two for the Road, with Audrey Hepburn, that Pat Metheny recorded as an instant classic with Charlie Haden. Lee Remick was in The Days of Wine, right? And Jack Lemmon? I know it’d be easier just to search it on IMDB but I like to check whether my memory still holds. Thanks for this, as usual
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It’s a great song, another classic, and there are several good versions of the song. I think the US lost its innocence on November 22nd, 1963. I remembered this song when I wrote you a note yesterday. Thank you for your note. Micheline
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The video shows the twin towers. It’s crusching.
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