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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:43:15 -0400
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On 3/27/2025 3:56 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 2025 at 1:03:18 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 05:57:49 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
>>> <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> 3/26/25 7:59 PM, shawn wrote:
>>>>>> Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:43:55 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>>>
>>>>>>> I love this movie and try to watch it every spring. Greatest sports
>>>>>>> movie ever.
>>>>
>>>>>>> Tanner Boyle: All we got on this team are a buncha Jews,
>>>>>>> spics, niggers, pansies, and a booger-eatin' moron!
>>>>
>>>>>>> Ogilvie: Tanner, I think you need to be reminded from
>>>>>>> time to time that you are one of the few people on this
>>>>>>> team who is not a Jew, spic, nigger, pansy or a
>>>>>>> booger-eating moron. So you'd better cool it or we may
>>>>>>> be disposed to beat the crap out of you.
>>>>
>>>>>>> Corrupted my childhood. What movie is it?
>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know but it sounds like bad news.
>>>>
>>>>> I cheated, and peaked, but it turns out that I had guessed the right movie.
>>>>
>>>>> I suspect you have too.
>>>>
>>>>> Ian  (FTR, I have never seen this movie. I also have never seen "The
>>>>> Exorcist" - that movie is much higher on my "Must See" list than Adam's
>>>>> entry!!  :p  )
>>>>
>>>> Then you've never heard this?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0
>>>
>>> I suppose it's possible someone never heard it but I would be
>>> surprised if someone over 40 never heard that at some point. Even if
>>> only a small segment.
>>
>> Strangely enough, the song is called Tubular Bells but it's played on the
>> piano doubled with glockenspiel, not on, you know, tubular bells as one might
>> expect.
> 
> I actually have the album on vinyl in a box somewhere.

The story goes that Friedkin booted Lalo Schifrin's score, and happened 
to overhear 'Tubular Bells' and seized on it.  Slightly more dramatic 
than when Kubrick tossed the commissioned score for 2001:aSO, in favor 
the classical singles he'd been using for rough editing.  Two preeminent 
yet second-shelf soundtrack milestones.