Top 25 Film Scores of All Time

RANK		FILM Title	YEAR	COMPOSER
1		STAR WARS	1977	John Williams
2		GONE WITH THE WIND	1939	Max Steiner
3		LAWRENCE OF ARABIA	1962	Maurice Jarre
4		PSYCHO	1960	Bernard Herrmann
5		THE GODFATHER	1972	Nino Rota
6		JAWS	1975	John Williams
7		LAURA	1944	David Raksin
8		THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN	1960	Elmer Bernstein
9		CHINATOWN	1974	Jerry Goldsmith
10		HIGH NOON	1952	Dimitri Tiomkin
11		THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD	1938	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
12		VERTIGO	1958	Bernard Herrmann
13		KING KONG	1933	Max Steiner
14		E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL	1982	John Williams
15		OUT OF AFRICA	1985	John Barry
16		SUNSET BLVD.	1950	Franz Waxman
17		TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	1962	Elmer Bernstein
18		PLANET OF THE APES	1968	Jerry Goldsmith
19		A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE	1951	Alex North
20		THE PINK PANTHER	1964	Henry Mancini
21		BEN-HUR	1959	Miklos Rozsa
22		ON THE WATERFRONT	1954	Leonard Bernstein
23		THE MISSION	1986	Ennio Morricone
24		ON GOLDEN POND	1981	Dave Grusin
25		HOW THE WEST WAS WON	1962	Alfred Newman

Killer Dolphins on the Loose

Beware, anyone who goes to the Gulf! These poor dolphins could be anywhere after the storms that have ripped up their homes! Of course, since no one is denying or confirming anything, then who knows if these dolphins were moved, if they don't exist, or if they're happily eating their dolphin food in their pond somewhere in Louisiana. Although, the official (an accident investigator) that's been chosen for comments in the article does sound a little chilling: (I know that this is not a laughing matter for all of the animal rights activists who would rather shoot off a toe than use an animal like this, but I had to laugh - I couldn't stop a picture of Flipper equipped with a harness of bullets strapped across his back a la Rambo):

'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?'

Beyond Disgusted

That is exactly how I feel about george's latest eye-catching stunt. Get all the tongues rolling. Well, at least this will momentarily take him out of the heat for Iraq, Katrina, and his many other deficiencies. I can just see him and the gang, all sitting around at Camp David drinking Brandy and smoking cigars (or whatever it is they do at Camp David), throwing out names for a Supreme Court Justice. george shooting them all down, one by one, until he came across the perfect answer. "I'll pick someone who has never even been a judge before - then they won't be able to pick their record apart! And I'll make it a woman!! No one can argue with putting a woman on the bench who has NEVER BEEN A JUDGE!" So after doing those crucial steps of strategy-planning, all he had to do was find a woman that had never been a judge. Given the number of women in this country who meet that criteria, george had to come up with another requirement, just to keep the task simple enough for him to handle. "Let's make it someone that I know!" How he managed to narrow it down to one woman after that will probably be a secret that time will keep for herself. I'm sure he had good reasons. And I'm sure that Dick agrees with them - wherever he is. In the meantime, we have Harriet Miers. And there, my friends, is how we come to have our latest Supreme Court Nominee.