From Planet of the Apes to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Jerry Goldsmith has written some of his finest soundtracks for science fiction movies, while his scores for director Paul Verhoven's Total Recall and Basic Instinct have become musical landmarks. Hollow Man is their third collaboration, the main theme being an elegantly icy, sinuous melody carried over ...
Not many Goldsmith tunes can claim to have gone on to be popular songs of their day. "And We Were Lovers" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer) from The Sand Pebbles ranks among the few and is a curiosity in as much as the film it was derived from hardly qualifies as romantic fluff. The Yangtze River of the 1920s is a background of turbulent waters to the political and racial intolerance ...