{"id":2954,"date":"2008-02-08T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/02\/happy-birthday-john-williams.html"},"modified":"2008-02-08T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:23:00","slug":"happy-birthday-john-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/02\/happy-birthday-john-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday John Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brilliant film composer <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">John Williams<\/span> turns 76 today. It is hard to say which score is his finest, but <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Superman<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/span> are probably the best he did outside of the Star Wars saga. I think I have to give the nod to <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Empire Strikes Back<\/span>, but <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Revenge of the Sith<\/span> was awfully close.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TQtQUedddio&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like the video for the closing credits of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Empire<\/span> that I found, it seemed a little too fast, so I went with the end of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Sith<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/JohnWilliams\" rel=\"tag\">John Williams<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/StarWars\" rel=\"tag\">Star Wars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/filmmusic\" rel=\"tag\">film music<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. 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