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BRANDO ON SET OF “APOCALYPSE NOW” ( Photos by MARY ELLEN MARK )

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A MUSICAL METAMORPHOSIS by ORLANDO DI LASSO
THE MAKING OF DAVID BOWIE’S “HEROES”
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DOCTOR WHO THEME
THE “OTHER” TERMINATOR ( MARVIN THE PARANOID ANDROID )
BRANDO ON SET OF “APOCALYPSE NOW” ( Photos by MARY ELLEN MARK )
JOHN BOORMAN IN HOLLYWOOD ( “QUEEN AND COUNTRY” AT THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE )
BEETHOVEN TRANSFIGURED ( THE NEUEN EFFECT )
EINSTEIN’S MONSTERS ( Martin Amis, the Bomb, and Thinking the Unthinkable )
JAMES EARL JONES REMEMBERS ( Filming “THE COMEDIANS” with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alec Guinness )
JAMES BOND on the SOUTH BANK SHOW
THEMES FOR SECRET AGENTS ( The Phase 4 Stereo Effect Part 1: James Bond, Roland Shaw, et al. )
The Wit and Wisdom of Nora Ephron
HAPPY 450th, BILL! ( How I Celebrated Shakespeare’s Birthday with Sir Ian McKellen )
THE MAN IN THE MACHINE ( Kraftwerk Live at Disney Hall )
IN A HOLLYWOOD STATE OF MIND
( HOW MANY MILES TO ) BABYLON?
The Story of British Prog Rock
The Making of Peter Gabriel’s “Security”
Composing “E.T.” ( Happy 82nd Birthday, John Williams )
TRIPPING THE SOUND FANTASTIC ( Dramatizing “THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER” for Radio )
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER ( Full Dramatization )
“CLINIC E” ( A Dark Comedy about Getting The Test )
“We’ll Meet Again” ( Celebrating 50 Years of “Dr. Strangelove” )
The Wit and Wisdom of Sir Alan Parker
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MUSIC CUE ( or How “An American Werewolf in London” Lost Its Bite )
NAPOLEON REDUX ( The Emperor of Films Returns )
A Little Birthday Gilliam ( without so much rat in it )
WHEN MARTIANS ROAMED THE EARTH ( THE STORY BEHIND “THE WAR OF THE WORLDS” )
FILMMAKERS on FILMMAKERS ( ALAN PARKER on KEVIN BROWNLOW )
Celebrating Rita Hayworth
LILLIAN GISH in “The Wind”
Drawn to Greatness ( Richard Williams at the Academy )
HOLLYWOOD by STEICHEN
How to draw Bugs and a Certain Coyote
THE GARBO EFFECT
Terry Gilliam on the Art of Animation
Paul Thomas Anderson on Max Ophuls
Kubrick’s Favorite Movies ( Happy 85th Stanley! )
The Original British Bad Boy: Terence Stamp at 75
Happy 75th Miss. Natalie
INTERMISSION: 60s-STYLE
50 years of Fellini’s 8 1/2
THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE? ( “NAPOLEON” on BASTILLE DAY )
HAPPY 130th BIRTHDAY, FRANZ! ( Kafka meets Welles in “The Trial” )
KUBRICK at LACMA
Bert shoots Marilyn… (and Marilyn shoots Bert)
Audrey by Bert
MY DAD ON EVEREST AND BEYOND ( OF GOD AND SCIENCE )
Watching every Hitchcock cameo….
RAY HARRYHAUSEN ( ANIMATING THE IMAGINATION )