Flicks in Five

Every Saturday at 10 a.m., Lynne Warfel takes a close look at great films, their scores and the stories behind the cameras... all in five minutes.

• Flicks in Five: The Longest Day
  A very young Paul Anka, who had a part in the big-budget movie, wrote the theme song.May 17, 2013
• Flicks in Five: A Place in the Sun
  A Place in the Sun was a 1951 black and white classic of intrigue, betrayal and murder based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel, An American Tragedy.May 11, 2013
• Flicks in Five: The Sound of Music
  Loosely based on a true story, The Sound of Music was last in the string of successful musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein.May 4, 2013
• Flicks in Five: "Summer Stock"
  Summer Stock: Judy Garland's last film for MGM and her last pairing with friend Gene Kelly, Summer Stock's upbeat nature is far from what was going on during filming.April 26, 2013
• Flicks in Five - Alexandre Desplat
  This French composer didn't hit the Hollywood radar screens until he received wide acclaim for the scores for the final Harry Potter moviesApril 19, 2013
• Flicks in Five: Spencer Tracy
  A star long before he was paired on screen with Katharine Hepburn, Tracy's now legendary quote about the art of acting says it all: "Know your lines and don't run into the furniture."April 13, 2013
• Flicks in Five: Humphrey Bogart
  While Casablanca made Humphrey Bogart a star before he met Lauren Bacall, it was their famous off-screen love affair that fired their on-screen chemistry.March 30, 2013
• Flicks in Five - The Music Man: from Mason to River City
  Meredith Willson has written some great standard tunes in the popular repertoire, but it's the story of the con man turned good-guy by an Iowa librarian that became a classic when "The Music Man" premiered.March 14, 2013
• Flicks in Five: Life of Pi - Mychael Danna
  The Oscar-winning score is the backdrop to the story of a young Hindu boy, Pi, in the summer of 1977, surviving a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named after an Edgar Allen Poe character.March 2, 2013
• Flicks in Five: John Williams
  This weekend's Oscars ceremony marks John Williams' 48th nomination for best score and his 26th collaboration over 40 years with Steven Spielberg.February 23, 2013
• Flicks in Five - Bette Davis
  Bette Davis was the nemesis to some Hollywood types and muse to others. Through the late 1930s and into the 1940s she was Hollywood's top leading lady, winning two Academy Awards.February 15, 2013
• Flicks in Five: New Release of music from James Bond Films
  In a new release, American born Carl Davis conducts a full orchestra in the best of James Bond Movie Music.February 9, 2013
• Flicks in Five: Danny Elfman
  Four time Oscar nominee, Danny Elfman is known for his collaborations with Tim Burton, music for the Batman movies and The Simpsons theme song.February 2, 2013
• Flicks in Five - Sunset Boulevard
  Franz Waxman gave the same chilling effect as his score to "The Bride of Frankenstein" in the score of "Sunset Boulevard," the story of the mental disintegration of a silent film star.January 26, 2013
• Flicks in Five - Lauren Bacall
  Betty Jean Perske started as a dancer, then went to acting school. When the tuition money ran out, she turned to modeling, and if not for an appearance on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, she might never have been cast opposite Humphrey Bogart.January 17, 2013

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