Today's Purchases (Non-classical)

[Henk]

[Bogey]

Got my attention here, Dave.

[Dr. Dread]

Got my attention here, Dave.

Quality sword-and-planet stuff, dude.  She also worked on the script for The Empire Strikes Back.

Read more!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Brackett

[Bogey]

Quality sword-and-planet stuff, dude.  She also worked on the script for The Empire Strikes Back.

Read more!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Brackett

I thought this was worth copying and bringing over:

The Empire Strikes Back

Brackett worked on the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. The movie won the Hugo Award in 1981. This script was a departure for Brackett, since until then, all of her science fiction had been in the form of novels and short stories.

The exact role which Brackett played in writing the script for Empire is the subject of some dispute. What is agreed on by all is that George Lucas asked Brackett to write the screenplay based on his story outline. It is also known that Brackett wrote a finished first draft which was delivered to Lucas shortly before Brackett's death from cancer on March 18, 1978. The screenplay was revised for filming by Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan, and both Brackett and Kasdan (though not Lucas) were given credit for the final script.

Many reviewers believed that they could detect traces of Brackett's influence in both the dialogue and the treatment of the space opera genre in Empire.[3] However, Laurent Bouzereau, in his book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, states that Lucas disliked the direction of Brackett's screenplay and discarded it. He then produced two screenplays before turning the results over to Kasdan, who did not work directly with Brackett's script at all. By this scenario, Lucas' assignment of credit to Brackett was a mere courtesy or mark of respect for the work she had done during her illness.[4] Support for this view comes from Stephen Haffner, owner of the press that printed Martian Quest: The Early Brackett, who has read Brackett's script, and claims that -- outside Lucas' storyline -- nothing of Brackett's personal contributions survives in the finished movie.

Brackett's screenplay has never been published. According to Haffner, it can be read at the library of the Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico, but may not be copied or borrowed off-site.

[George]

Not exactly a purchase, but I just downloaded and installed the very fast Safari 4.0 browser. I read in a test that it was 2X as fast as Firefox. They were wrong. It's more like 5 times faster, at least on my computer. I found an easy way to import all my thousands of bookmarks too:


1. Export bookmarks to HMTL from FF.
2. In menu bar on Safari, click File>Import Bookmarks.
3. Browse to your bookmarks.html file and click Open.

Note: same process on Windows and Mac, except in Windows version you need to be sure the Menu Bar is enabled. Click little gear icon on right hand side next to the bug report button, and click on "Show Menu Bar."

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Man I am lovin' this Safari 4.0 my Firefox had gotten sluggish even with modifications, so this is good news!

[karlhenning]

I thought this was worth copying and bringing over:

The Empire Strikes Back

Brackett worked on the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. The movie won the Hugo Award in 1981. This script was a departure for Brackett, since until then, all of her science fiction had been in the form of novels and short stories.

The exact role which Brackett played in writing the script for Empire is the subject of some dispute. What is agreed on by all is that George Lucas asked Brackett to write the screenplay based on his story outline. It is also known that Brackett wrote a finished first draft which was delivered to Lucas shortly before Brackett's death from cancer on March 18, 1978. The screenplay was revised for filming by Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan, and both Brackett and Kasdan (though not Lucas) were given credit for the final script.

Many reviewers believed that they could detect traces of Brackett's influence in both the dialogue and the treatment of the space opera genre in Empire.[3] However, Laurent Bouzereau, in his book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, states that Lucas disliked the direction of Brackett's screenplay and discarded it. He then produced two screenplays before turning the results over to Kasdan, who did not work directly with Brackett's script at all. By this scenario, Lucas' assignment of credit to Brackett was a mere courtesy or mark of respect for the work she had done during her illness.[4] Support for this view comes from Stephen Haffner, owner of the press that printed Martian Quest: The Early Brackett, who has read Brackett's script, and claims that -- outside Lucas' storyline -- nothing of Brackett's personal contributions survives in the finished movie.

Brackett's screenplay has never been published. According to Haffner, it can be read at the library of the Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico, but may not be copied or borrowed off-site.

Most interesting. Considering the none-too-high opinion I have of Lucas as a writer, I imagine that the probability that Brackett's screenplay was reasonably good, worked in its disfavor 

[Dr. Dread]

Most interesting. Considering the none-too-high opinion I have of Lucas as a writer, I imagine that the probability that Brackett's screenplay was reasonably good, worked in its disfavor 

She also worked on The Big Sleep with Faulkner... She got around.

[Bogey]

Most interesting. Considering the none-too-high opinion I have of Lucas as a writer, I imagine that the probability that Brackett's screenplay was reasonably good, worked in its disfavor  

I do not believe the writing is all that bad, Karl considering it was meant for 4 and up to understand.  I just cringe when I hear he is going to be sitting in the director's chair or even standing beside it.  

[Dr. Dread]

I was never a big Star Wars fan but must admit Empire was my favorite.

[Bogey]

I was never a big Star Wars fan but must admit Empire was my favorite.

Mine as well....easily.

[George]

Not exactly a purchase, but I just downloaded and installed the very fast Safari 4.0 browser. I read in a test that it was 2X as fast as Firefox. They were wrong. It's more like 5 times faster, at least on my computer. I found an easy way to import all my thousands of bookmarks too:


1. Export bookmarks to HMTL from FF.
2. In menu bar on Safari, click File>Import Bookmarks.
3. Browse to your bookmarks.html file and click Open.

Note: same process on Windows and Mac, except in Windows version you need to be sure the Menu Bar is enabled. Click little gear icon on right hand side next to the bug report button, and click on "Show Menu Bar."

____________

Man I am lovin' this Safari 4.0 my Firefox had gotten sluggish even with modifications, so this is good news!

Actually I spoke too soon. Though Safari 4.0 works incredibly well on MAC, at work I tried it on my Windows XP PC and it only gives me blank white pages. 

[Henk]

[Dr. Dread]

Aerosmith doing blues songs. Got it in the mail the other day. The audiophiles would not like it. But I can dig it.

[Dr. Dread]

[Haffner]

Good 'un.




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[Henk]

Couldn't resist..



My collection has reached a certain size / quality that there's always something I like to listen to and it's still small enough to digest everything. So now I want to build on my collection more modestly, only focus on new releases.

Henk

[Henk]

[Henk]

My first LP!
Fans of late Coltrane should definetily check this out.

[Dr. Dread]

[Dr. Dread]

Just landed...