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Marvin Hamlisch Dead

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  1. BigFurHat

    August 7th, 2012

    Hamlisch’s first film score is one of my favorite movies of all-time – The Swimmer, with Burt Lancaster.
    It’s based on a John Cheever story.
    Great movie.

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  2. Anonymous

    August 7th, 2012

    Several years ago I was on a flight and he was sitting right in front of me. An obnoxious woman sat next to him and was talking to him nonstop – she was a loud pain in ass. He got up from his seat, spoke with the attendant and quietly changed seats.

    I just smiled and thought good for him…he seemed like a humble dignified man.

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  3. Left Coast Dan

    August 7th, 2012

    So a spacecraft lands on Mars and 2 days later Marvin is dead? Scary. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/07/article-0-146D5F6F000005DC-5_634x568.jpg

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  4. Plain Jane

    August 7th, 2012

    May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.

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  5. bitterclinger

    August 7th, 2012

    I played “Pineapple Rag” in a high-school competition, so I was quite familiar with him, being that it was the heyday for “The Sting” and ragtime music. What a talented man. Always struck me as a bit nerdy, but talent out the wazoo.

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  6. Mr. Pinko

    August 7th, 2012

    My favorite Marvin Hamlisch moment… People do not realize he was the piano player introducing Groucho Marx’s “An Evening With Groucho” at Carnegie Hall.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OSOl3ykv50

    The info regarding the piano intro: starts with Beethoven’s 21st piano sonata, then “Hurray For Captain Spaulding” from Animal Crackers. Then into “Alone” from Night at the Opera, then “Everyone Says I Love You” from Horse Feathers, the bridge from Mozart’s “Ronda Alla Turko” & then “Cosi-Cosa” from N.A.T.O., back to “Spaulding” with big end flourish from Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”… then Cavett’s TV theme at the time. Now please come see my channel.

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  7. John F.

    August 7th, 2012

    I just remember how Lisa Loopner was saving herself for him.

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  8. jclady

    August 7th, 2012

    Another great one is gone.

    “The Way We Were”……..

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