Pete C

I grew up watching Zero Hour on late night TV. It was one of those films in regular rotation. I think it's that one and another film that were the main inspirations for Airplane. I'd say Airplane is very much in the Mel Brooks mode.

I assume you're not talking about this:

Michael Debakey Spanky DeBrest Art Blakey

Lee can be stern too. I was at a show in Verona--Lee, Swallow & Nussbaum. Lee started with a solo sax piece. He stopped in the middle, glared at a guy in the front row and said, "What's that I hear? Are you tapping your feet?...I DON'T need a rhythm section."

I wonder what criteria they're going to use to determine the hottest porn film ever.

Rep. Ed Markey The Mar-Keys The Bar-Kays

Did you say that on the funniest films thread?

Daphne Hellman Dorothy Ashby Harpo Marx

Lester Bangs Madame Pompadour Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I don't know the personnel of Joe Timer's "The Orchestra" in D.C., but possibly a surviving player or two from that band?

Cruella de Vil Willie Deville William Devane

Emma Goldman Rosa Luxemburg Roy Lichtenstein

Bam Bam Obama (Q: do papers outside NY call him Bam?) Ehud Barak

The Cable Guy George Washington Cable George Cables

B. Bopstein Baron Fingus Budo

John Steed Sylvester "The Italian Stallion" Stallone Filly Joe Jones

Cecil Rhodes Beany Mr. Bean

Kit Carson Carson Smith Chesney Baker

Gene Rayburn Allen Ludden Bill Cullen

Terence Stamp Julie Christie Ray Davies (who denied that the two above were the Terry & Julie of Waterloo Sunset)

Even more than Frank Kofsky?

He seemed fine when he was giving a talk on Monday. And Portraits in Blue has been back on the air for quite some time already. http://www.wbgo.org/profile/bporter

Holland and Altschul were working with both Braxton & Rivers in '75 and '76.

I'm pretty sure I started seeing the trio at Rivbea in '74, and through '75, numerous times. On weekends the trio, or an augmented group with Warren Smith or Joe Daley or both or others, or Winds of Manhattan would often do one set, and a guest artist would do the other. I remember the Braxton Quartet with Wheeler (the most crowded I ever saw the place), and a Frank Lowe set where a new guy in town, Black Arthur (Blythe) played alto. I'm pretty sure I was no longer a regular there by the time of the Wildflowers sessions. This confirms a June 1974 date: http://www.bb10k.com/RIVERS.disc.html#74.06.09 And how about this date from 12/72: those 3 plus Paul Bley! http://www.bb10k.com/RIVERS.disc.html#72.12.00-1 A little research also shows that the Braxton quartet gig was probably June 8 or 9, 1975. Don't know if Holland and Altschul played with Sam as well as Braxton that night.

One of the problems is that Impulse never recorded this trio.