Recent content by Michael Zielski

Hey BookPodder--you're a long way from Cape Elizabeth! I'm over here in Auburn, Maine (actually working at the hospital in Rumford at the moment...) envious of your Disneyland trip--I haven't been out there since 1976! Mike

Thanks, Randy--for insisting that the CD contained in the exclusive Haunted Mansion box be the same as the CD offered up to the masses. I passed bidding on eBay for the 13 track Haunted Mansion CD some years back, but I finally succombed to my desires, bidding (and winning) on the exclusive...

Yep--I'm still kicking around the site, Randy--it's just been a very busy time. Our son is starting college in a few weeks to study--music, and specifically composition (he's been composing for a few years already), with a strong--very strong--interest in film music. Not that all those years...

Aaaah...Bernard Herrmann. Randy, have you had the opportunity to listen to William Stromberg and John Morgan's new recordings of Fahrenheit 451 and Mysterious Island, on their new Tribute Film Classics Label? I'll be listening to the Mysterious Island recording for the first time on the way...

Re: From Randy: New iTunes Titles are here! Thanks for your words, Rich--it was my wife who lost her father three weeks ago; he was chronically ill, but sometimes the end still comes suddenly. It's going to take time, but even time doesn't heal all... Anyway, we need distractions...thanks also...

Re: From Randy: New iTunes Titles are here! I've been off the site for the past several weeks...family loss...but something made me check in tonight...welcome back, Randy! The 20,000 Leagues release will definitely force my hand to finally download from iTunes. Funny, my son and I just...

I haven't seen the film yet, but I listened to the soundtrack for the first time last night driving home from work. Always being partial to the villains(one of the reasons I've been interested in this film), the music finally hit home on tracks 12 and 13, featuring some very pleasantly sinister...

With my Mom just being placed in a nursing home a few weeks ago, and just coming back home after visiting her in that setting for the first time over this past weekend, I was instantly attracted to a post offering yet more bad news...bring it on... Anyway, sad news indeed...I agree with you...

Actually, Bill, the thing that actually came into my mind when I read your post wasn't Martin Short, but it was comedic...a comic strip by the late Dave Berg from 1960's Mad Magazine(Berg's "The Lighter Side of....." series)--the All-American family is on some kind of a road trip, and at every...

I dunno, Bill--I think we're at least in partial agreement... Do I think that "Disney" should listen to the masses? Of course not--it certainly wasn't Walt's credo. Do I think that the Walt Disney Company should continue their foray into stand-up comedy? No. But do I think that every Epcot...

Bill, my family and I viewed the film on its "soft" opening day, and the next day as well; we enjoyed both Martin Short and the grandeur that is Canada(and my wife now can't wait to visit Quebec City, literally just over the border from us in Maine). I don't feel that Short's humor denigrates...

Thanks Bill, didn't know about the book--I'll clear some room on the shelf next to his other two classics. My main interest in the park books has always been the preproduction and concept artwork, which is why Marc Davis has always been one of my favorite Disney artists, ever since I bought all...

According to the site, the sound effects used are courtesy of Walt Disney Records, from the new digital mster of the original sounds of the Haunted Mansion--look like there was some "official" tip of the hat by the folks at "Disney". Is Kat Cressida's voice now heard at the WDW version? MZ

I thought that the Disneyland version didn't have an actual 3D figure anymore, that there was some kind of projected image...maybe I'm wrong(my information is from Scary Monsters magazine, which is home right now, so I can't double-check it). Also...I was just over on doombuggies.com, and found...

I was wondering if the bride/attic scene would be changed to what is in Disneyland now--has anyone seen that version? It doesn't sound like that was one of the changes made.....I was hoping... Mike Z