[Fmpro] Answers

[Les Hurdle]

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On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Les Mizzell wrote:

>
>> * finding ways to justify some of the world's most discriminatory 
>> performing
>> rights royalty rates when it comes to a minute of music vs. a minute 
>> of song
>
> Goofy but true story...
>
> I scored a small indie film a number of years ago. A few scenes feature
> these two really strange white guys with dreads trying to pose as
> kinda-rasta brain dead swindlers. At one point, they're finally 
> arrested
> for stealing TVs.
>
> The big scene in question has a number of policeman on one side of the
> one-way glass looking into the two guys in the interrogation room in
> total disbelief as to how complete nuts they are. The two guys are
> walking around and laughing and saying crazy stuff and at one point,
> bust out into the completely improvised incomprehensible rap 
> beat-boxing
> rap tune that last about 20 seconds. During the shoot, this whole scene
> was improvised and done in one take.
>
> The producer decided, as a joke, to include the, uh, "song" on the cue
> sheets for the movie.
>
> Royalties? They get almost as much for that one song as I do for the
> entire score for the rest of the movie.
>
> Wazzup wid dat?
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