Re:[F_minor] OTish: GG Studio Question

["Kate Clunies-Ross" <appassionata3@lycos.com>]

 "Mary Jo Watts" <mwatts@rutgers.edu> wrote:

> Can you imagine how absolutely horrified GG would be to be in any way 
> associated with In Cold Blood even if it's the studio's
> name only?  Well there's Silence of the Lambs for that matter... Hmm, if 
> you're GG-- what's worse
>a) Being associated in name to stories about brutal murderers b) having a 
>piano competition or prize named after you?  ;-)

>=Probably having a piano competition or prize named after you. :-)

>=Anne 

Well, I imagine that GG would have found having the Prize named after him rather embarrassing 
and maybe inexplicable, but not totally unacceptable; because it isn't actually _competitive_. 
People are nominated for the homour, and presumably a committee discusses and selects the 
winner, but no candidate is required to compete or to demonstrate his ability in front of a 
judge. 
However, I do think that he would have opposed very strongly his name being associated with 
"stories of brutal murderers". Speaking of which, I wonder why the lawyers who manage the Estate 
of Glenn Gould gave their permission for GG's own recording of the Goldbergs being used for the 
film "Hannibal" (the follow-up to "Silence of the Lambs") and to his name appearing in the 
credits? (I assume the makers of the film had to have such permission.) I was under the 
impression that GG's lawyer is very keen to protect GG's name and image from exploitation. The 
first Silence of the Lambs film, if I remember correctly, did not actually use GG's name or even 
his recordings. (He is mentioned in the book, but in a way that contrasts the sheer beauty of 
the music with the events depicted.) The second film however seemed gratuitously violent and 
stomach-churning and didnt even have a particularly exciting or credible plot. OK, I watched it, 
possibly - like a lot of people - out of curiosity at all the hype and publicity: but I didn't 
think much of it as a piece of film-making and I was sad that the name and music of Glenn Gould 
was associated with it.

Kate
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