I once sat through four of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti Westerns in one day. Almost eight hours of watching Clint light stogie after stogie, squinting, and always getting the villain. Whether it was being saved from a hanging, wearing protective steel under his poncho or dowing another shot of whiskey before firing off another round to save the town, the movies' scores stuck with me. I walked out into the evening sky with one of my best friends, Tony. We were blinded by the setting sun after spending the entire day in the movie theater. "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," "For a Few Dollars More," "A Fistful of Dollars," and "Hang 'Em High."
Clint just finished announcing the honorary Oscar to Ennio Morricone for his years of contributing haunting and memorable scores to many films, including the ones with Clint riding off into the sunset or running through a cemetery to find the hidden money.
Segio Leone is smiling somewhere as his movies once made a star of the guy from "Rawhide" and now the music that has been inspirational since the 1960's is being honored. He continues to write and perform the music that has lead to some strange and interesting takes on his scores.
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