{"id":55,"date":"2007-01-15T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mog.com\/spaceling\/blog_post\/38966"},"modified":"2016-11-11T08:15:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:15:11","slug":"bernard-herrmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2007\/01\/bernard-herrmann","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Herrmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081120164836\/http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/artist\/clowes\/clowes.html\">Daniel Clowes<\/a>, once theorized that  JFK  was assasinated by hit men for the hat industry, payback for the President&#8217;s disregard for men&#8217;s hats and the subsequent decline in their fashion in the early 1960s. But in the days of Dwight Eisenhower, you could still drive around with Jimmy Stewart whilst wearing a hat about San Francisco, whistling. I&#8217;ve never been to the Bay Area myself but this is how I imagine it, with the score that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Herrmann\">Bernard Herrmann<\/a> wrote for it in the film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vertigo_%28film%29\">Vertigo<\/a><\/em> (1958). The first time I saw this film when I was 16 or so I imagined what you can now view for yourself below. (It wasn&#8217;t until much later that I had a computer and the free software to make the edits I needed.) <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=6DMvyVnSfI0\">Enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6DMvyVnSfI0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6DMvyVnSfI0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone, I think Daniel Clowes, once theorized that JFK was assasinated by hit men for the hat industry, payback for the President&#8217;s disregard for men&#8217;s hats and the subsequent decline in their fashion in the early 1960s. 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