If You Choose To Accept It
Lalo Schifrin turns 80 today. He's another one of those composers whose music everyone knows, even if they don't know the name.
He scored almost 200 movies and TV shows, but his best known piece is probably something that was originally written as background music. Producer Bruce Geller heard it and made it the main theme of Mission: Impossible. It's written in 5/4 time (though it was stupidly put into 4/4 by U2 for the movie).
posted by LAGuy @ 12:11 AM
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Dirty Harry was the first movie where I noticed the soundtrack as an integral part of the movie. The music - especially the parts with Scorpio - got under your skin and stayed there.
Whatever became of Peter Lupus?
He started as a bodybuilder and Mission: Impossible was his big moment, but he was also pretty memorable as Norberg in Police Squad!.
Lupus got him.
I thought OJ weas Nordberg
Peter Lupus was Norberg in the Police Squad! TV series
OJ Simpson was Nordberg in the Naked Gun movies
Good thing Lupus didn't get in the movie or he might have killed his wife.
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