Saturday, January 04, 2014

Saul Zaentz. R. I. P.

The Hollywood Reporter: He won Oscars for producing three best picture winners -- "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," "Amadeus" and "The English Patient" -- after a great career with Fantasy Records and feuds with John Fogerty.  

Hat tip to Doc Quatermass.

5 comments:

Deb said...

John Fogarty: "I win!"

/Too soon?

Greg Daniel said...

Can't see his name without immediately thinking of "Zaentz can't dance, but he'll steal your money ..."

Anonymous said...

I thought that too, Deb.

Jeff

mybillcrider said...

Greg, I have the LP with that song on it.

Todd Mason said...

He also stole the logo from THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION for the first Fantasy Records logo. When told to knock that off, he used the name Galaxy for another record line, but didn't try to filch the logo from GALAXY magazine...

http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2013/05/fantasy-records-swipes-f-logo-for.html