tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post6927256055930131476..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: How To Live Like A Human BeingSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-32211273735184053312009-04-17T20:34:00.000-04:002009-04-17T20:34:00.000-04:00Sir David Lean,a true gentleman and a great direct...Sir David Lean,a true gentleman and a great director.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-5490007943239472492009-04-17T11:48:00.000-04:002009-04-17T11:48:00.000-04:00p.s. No producer will allow a long static shot lik...p.s. No producer will allow a long static shot like the one in Lawrence of Arabia where Omar Sharif comes to the well again, ever.misterarthurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05697612334770463535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-58848404514011184192009-04-17T11:38:00.000-04:002009-04-17T11:38:00.000-04:00I don't know if your post was triggered by the pas...I don't know if your post was triggered by the passing of Maurice Jarre - the great film composer and friend of David Lean's. I read an obituary yesterday in The Economist: Here's a sample.<br />"Mr Jarre’s commission was to write the music for it {Lawrence of Arabia}. It was extraordinary that he had been asked. Sam Spiegel, the producer, had heard only his ten-minute score for a French film called “Sundays and Cybele”, written for bass, counter-bass, flute and table-harp. Now he was supposed to produce, in six weeks, two hours of music for a 100-piece orchestra. Back in his room in Half Moon Street he tried to read all he could about T.E. Lawrence, including the huge “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, as well as searching for that little swatch of notes that might turn into a theme. Search, search, search, search, as Stravinsky said. “Sam Spiegel told me, you have the job of Superman!” Mr Jarre joyously recalled."<br /><br />p.s. I read somewhere that William Holden had a "drinking helmet" to wear when on a bendermisterarthurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05697612334770463535noreply@blogger.com