ABSTRACT
A new and somewhat rickety desktop publishing enterprise, Moviesound Newsletter was launched when the editor and publisher, along with correspondents on the team, hand-carried folded copies to their friends and colleagues around Los Angeles post-production businesses. Richard Stone was widely considered the modern-day successor to Carl Stalling, the legendary composer who wrote hundreds of musical scores for Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon shorts from the late 1930’s through the 1950’s. Ridley Scott’s 1985 Legend suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous studio marketing in more ways than one. As so often happens when the “suits” at the studio smell a flop, they started to monkey around with the score. Theatrical cartoons traditionally had “a great deal of movement” covered by orchestrated instrumental effects. When Bugs Bunny tripped lightly up a staircase, Carl Stalling would likely have scored plucked strings in perfect footstep-sync.
