A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

© 2021 Paramount Home Media Distribution and Lucasfilm Ltd.  Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s mid-afternoon here in my corner of Florida on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Currently, the temperature is 83˚F (28˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 73% and the wind blowing from the west-southwest at 9 MPH (15 KM/H), the heat index is 92˚F (33˚C). The forecast for the rest of the day calls for occasional thunderstorms throughout the afternoon and evening hours; the high will be 85˚F (30˚C). Tonight, storms will continue to pass through our area, and the low will be 74˚F (24˚C). The Air Quality Index (AQI) is 34 or  Good . If you recall, I ordered the Indiana Jones: 4-Movie Collection 4K UHD Blu-ray box set on Amazon as a pre-order on March 16. Paramount Home Media Distribution scheduled a release date of Tuesday, June 8 – just a few days before the 40 th Anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark’s theatrical release (June 12, 1981). Initially, Amazon – basing its estimates on Paramou...

In the summer of 1984, British-based Polydor Records released Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, an 11-track album with selections from composer-conductor John Williams’ score for the second chapter of the Indiana Jones saga. The album was issued in three formats – vinyl long-play (LP), audio cassette, and the then-new compact disc (CD) – but due to the limitations of how much content a single LP record can hold, Polydor and Maestro Williams – who is credited as the album producer – chose only 40 minutes’ worth of music from his score for the 118-minutes-long film. The resulting Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom soundtrack was a “sampler” of action cues and leitmotivs from the film, including Short Round’s Theme, Fast Streets of Shanghai, and the film’s dazzling opening number – Kate Capshaw’s cover – in Mandarin Chinese – of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. However, due to Polydor’s decision to release the soundtrack as a single LP album...