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Entry: In Praise of the Heroic Theme Song: An Anglo-American TV Adventure - A87890386
Author: Dmitri Gheorgheni - U1590784

I didn't want people to think I only wrote about highbrow topics like the Bible. So I ventured into Bluebottle territory with this review of television theme songs with manly themes and manly choruses.

Oh, I guess I should warn you: this entry is an earworm land mine. It should probably be outlawed by international treaty.

I like this Entry - I enjoy the way a theme tune weaves its way through a film or TV programme. I like a cheesy theme song every now and then, too! Davy Crockett is a popular earworm in my brain when I'm cooking, as it is well accompanied by the bass note of my oven turntable, and rhymes with gravy

Does Footnote 3 mention HUAC before you define what the acronym stands for?

What pseudonyms did the songwriters for Robin Hood etc use, do you know?

Thanks, Sasha! This entry got started because us old folk over here got to remembering all those theme songs we enjoyed from our childhood. The selections were almost completely from memory. Although we never got to hear those 'William Tell' lyrics, which I deeply regret...

Anyway, you're right, 'HUAC' in the footnote appears one who full stop before the explanation in the text. Because we don't not want anyone to have to think too hard, I've repeated the explanation in the footnote, because I don't want the reader to have to get the explanation from a footnote they may or may not bother to read. I hope that's satisfactory.

Now, about pseudonyms:

'Eric Heath' was Ring Lardner Jr and Ian McLellan Hunter
'Anne Rodney' was Anne Green
'Neil R Collins' could be Waldo Salt, or Lardner & Hunter
In fact, Lardner & Hunter used so many aliases you couldn't keep up
'Peggy Phillips' was Adrian Scott and Fred Rinaldo
'Zachary Weiss' was Waldo Salt, except when it wasn't...

You get the idea. That's so many pseudonyms and so many names of people nobody has ever heard of that it isn't worth listing. But it was a stellar writing crew.

Take Waldo Salt: After the McCarthyites went away, he wrote 'Serpico', and won Academy Awards for 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Coming Home'. But think about it: how many screenwriters' names do you know?

*one WHOLE full stop

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