「大谷翔平、適時内野安打で50打点到達も…69打席本塁打なし、エ軍は連勝止まる」

以下、Full-Count(2019.08.17)から。

エンゼルス大谷翔平投手は16日(日本時間17日)、本拠地ホワイトソックス戦に「3番・DH」で8試合連続スタメン出場し、4打数1安打1打点だった。3回の第2打席で適時内野安打を放ち、今季50打点に到達。しかし、エンゼルスは2-7で敗れ、連勝は「2」で止まった。大谷は自己最長の69打席連続本塁打なしとなった。

「大谷翔平、5打数2安打で今季29度目マルチ エ軍はトラウトの4安打などで連勝」

以下、Full-Count(2019.08.16)から。

エンゼルス大谷翔平投手は15日(日本時間16日)、本拠地エンゼルスタジアムでのホワイトソックス戦に「3番・DH」で7試合連続でスタメン出場した。初回の第1打席で6試合連続安打となる二塁打を放つと、第2打席も右前安打。3試合連続、今季29度目のマルチ安打とし、チームに貢献。エンゼルスは終盤にホワイトソックスの追い上げを許すも何とか逃げ切り、2連勝を飾った。

'Randy Newman, The Musical Voice Of 'Toy Story''

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以下、NPRの'All Things Considered'(June 21, 20194:25 PM ET)から。

TIM GREIVING

Back in the fall of 1995, Randy Newman was a 52-year-old veteran singer-songwriter, known more for songs that told stories, often sung as a character. He was also a multiple Oscar-nominated composer of grown-up scores for films like The Natural. But if you're of a certain age, you might only know Newman as "the Toy Story Guy."

"I mean, there's no competing with Toy Story, in terms of the reach of it," Newman says. "It inevitably appeals to, you know, hundreds of millions that I wouldn't appeal to."

At the piano in the small studio behind his Pacific Palisades home, Newman, now 75, remembers getting the call for the first Toy Story: "It started a terror in my stomach, you know, that it was so different from what I'd done."


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At the time, Newman had never scored a children's film or an animated film before but Pixar wanted Newman partly because of his warm, Americana sound — they were worried the computer graphics might feel too cold without an orchestra — but also because of his bite.

"Pixar was almost the anti-Disney, that they didn't want to do musicals, or princess movies, or have magic and those types of things," Tom MacDougall, executive vice president of music at Walt Disney Studios, says. "I would say Randy is as important as Tom Hanks or Tim Allen ... If we didn't have his music in there, you would feel it, for sure. And you might not even want to make it without him."

Newman's score for Toy Story was all bouncing and scurrying because he felt it was only natural that when the toys moved, the music should move too. Newman wrote several unforgettable songs for Toy Story, but it was "You've Got A Friend" that earned him a spot in the Disney Song Hall of Fame.


As the film series evolved, the characters stopped to reflect more. In Toy Story 2, Newman wrote "When She Loved Me" for Sarah McLachlan—which went with a montage about losing the most important person in the world to you. In Toy Story 3, Woody and the gang suffered the heartbreak of losing their kid, Andy, to adulthood. Toy Story 4 presented Newman with ample opportunity to tug our hearts. When Woody confronts the loss of his very purpose in life, Newman was there to express some very adult emotions. "It's very adult sort of problem that Woody has," Newman says with a laugh.


Newman still remembers the first conversations he had with Pixar about these characters: "You have to take their feelings, their emotions, seriously. It's not like unimportant when somebody's feeling bad."

So, even though in 1995, Randy Newman may have seemed like an odd choice for a cartoon about a bunch of sentient toys, these movies have let him explore the full range of his humor and his heart. Maybe none more than this latest one. "I have a hunch that it might be the best one I did for Toy Story," he says.

Still, if Randy Newman is only remembered as "the Toy Story guy," he admits he wouldn't like it.

"I want them to know other movies, and that I write songs, you know. When I step off, I think it'll be the songs that are mentioned more. You know, when the obituary in the Courier Journal is there, I think it'll be 'singer-songwriter.' But I'm not sure. I'll never know."

Nina Gregory edited this audio for broadcast.

映画「トイ・ストーリー4」を観てきた

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映画「トイ・ストーリー4」を観てきた。
以下、IMDbから。
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1979376/
声優としてのトム・ハンクスが良かった。
音楽担当はRandy Newman。
以下、サウンド・トラックリストから。

I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away
Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
Performed by Randy Newman
Produced by Mitchell Froom
Recorded & Mixed by David Boucher
Group Vocals Contracted & Conducted by Jasper Randall
Horn Arrangements by Dan Higgins

The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy
Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
Performed by Chris Stapleton
Recorded & Mixed by Vance Powell
Chris Stapleton appears courtesy of Mercury Nashville, va division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

You've Got A Friend In Me
Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
Performed by Randy Newman

Midnight, the Stars and You
Written by Harry M. Woods (as Harry Woods), Jimmy Campbell (as James Campbell), and Reginald Connelly
Performed by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with vocal by Al Bowlly
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment

Don't Keep Me Waitin'
Written by Ken Morrison
Performed by The Wranglers Featuring Bonnie Guitar
Courtesy of CAPP Records Inc. O/B/O Morrison Records

Forever Tilt
Written & Performed by Jake Monaco

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K.467, 2nd movement
(uncredited)
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

「大谷翔平、5戦連続安打&今季28度目マルチで打率.294に上昇! エ軍は連敗2でストップ」

以下、Full-Count(2019.08.15)から。

エンゼルス大谷翔平投手は14日(日本時間15日)、本拠地パイレーツ戦に「3番・DH」で6試合連続でスタメン出場。3打数2安打の活躍で今季28度目のマルチ安打をマークし打率は.294に上昇した。チームは7-3で勝利し連敗は2でストップした。