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"Never underestimate the potency of cheap music."

- Amanda Prynne, Private Lives

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MITZI SCOTT 1918-2012

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Mitzi Scott on May 3, 2012, at the age of 93. She was the third wife Raymond Scott, the innovative bandleader and composer who was one of the first to exploit the recording studio as a musical instrument. He also was one of the first to explore the potentials of electronic music, creating a nascent version of the sequencer using mechanical/analog technology. Born in New York in 1918, she started dancing at age 10, and performed for many years at the Roxy Theater. She married Raymond Scott in 1967 and cared for him for many years after his stroke in 1986. Afterwards she protected his archives and was instrumental in protecting his legacy. When I interviewed her back in 1993, she was a font of information and a delight to talk to. Look for a repeat of the Raymond Scott program on Crazy College in the near future. Photo courtesy Stan Warnow

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THE BED SITTING ROOM

(1969) 12:00 AM This Saturday, May 12

Goon Show star Spike Milligan's mordant tale of the last survivors of a 3 minute nuclear war has a who's who (and what's what) of British comedy, including a 17 month pregnant Rita Tushingham, male nurse Marty Feldman and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as two policemen who hover over the survivors in a balloon shouting "keep moving" to no one in particular. Directed by Richard Lester from a stage play co-authored by Spike, it's a surrealist nightmare, a sequel of sorts to Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth as performed by Monty Python. Whether we'll get the letterboxed version available from BFI or Turner's embarrassing panned and scanned print only time will tell. But if it's the latter, skip it.UPDATE: ONCE AGAIN TURNER SHOWED A REALLY TERRIBLE TRANSFER OF A WONDERFUL FILM, DESTROYING LESTER'S COMPOSITIONS WITH A PAN AND SCANNED PRINT. GET WITH IT, TBS. BUY THE BFI DVD AND RUN THAT!

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Amos Vogel
He was 91 when he died in his New York apartment on Tuesday, April 22 (2012). Few had opened my eyes wider to what cinema could be than he, thanks in large part to Cinema 16 which distributed the films of Robert Downey, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol and Maya Deren. His manifesto-in-book-form, “Film as a Subversive Art,” helped energize underground film as it moved more into the mainstream (only to get eaten by Steven Spielberg’s shark and left for dead). Anyone who goes to the movies has felt his influence. Even the worst Hollywood movie is more self-aware now, whether it knows it or not.

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YOUR SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING EDITIONS OF CRAZY COLLEGE
Mark your calendar and cancel all conflicting commitments:

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May 27

Crazy College takes the week off so Brian Lee can remember Memorial Day with an extended version of "In A Mist".

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June 3

Girl Crazy

This week we're off the mystic isles with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and the Chipmunks. We go shopping with Big Daddy Graham and The Reverend Billy C. Wertz and then Hester awards an A plus to Alice because she’ at it again, at least according to Noel Coward

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June 10

Australia and Points South

First off it’s Bob and Ray competing on Arthur Godfrey’s No Talent Contest. Mae West joins Mrs Miller in a duet of Beatle songs. Then we’ll head down under to Australia for a too brief holiday wit.

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June 17

Spike Milligan

This week we salute Spike Milligan. Spike was the brains behind The Goon Show, and also authored many plays and books, including “Adolph Hitler, My Part in his Downfall.” We’ll here hear Spike performing at Cambridge University in 1973, and play some of his silliest songs.

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Fire up the colortini, kick back and put on the head phones...and wait some more....
NEWS FLASHS!..SEE EXCERPTS FROM THE CRAZY COLLEGE TV SHOW, BAKED POTATO, now on YOUTUBE!! Search "Baked Potato George" or copy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjlxxD575Ns Thanks to Al Engberg for making that happen...UPDATE!! We done got censored: See but don't here Baked Potato, since we hummed the theme to Star Trec, they tell us we're not playing nice with ASCAP and BMI. I say it's fair usage. So far they've won..

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From the G. Stewart/C. Healy Archives: A 7 year old Andrew Warhola does his first silk screen: "36 Wax Coke Bottles."

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