The star acted opposite Sir Roger Moore in 1973"s Live And Let Die, and again the following year in The Man With The Golden Gun following an outpouring of praise from fans of the beloved spy franchise.
His family confirmed the sad news last night, adding that he died at his home in Oregon from complications relating to his diabetes.
Clifton as Sheriff Pepper in Live And Let Die (Photo: Mirrorpix)
James" daughter Lynn paid tribute to her nonagenarian father, saying: "He was the most outgoing person, beloved by everybody.
Amazing story of the real life James Bond who outwitted the Nazis in WW2
"I don"t think the man had an enemy. We were incredibly blessed to have had him in our lives."
Sir Roger also paid tribute to his old co-star, tweeting: "Terribly sad to hear Clifton James has left us. As JW Pepper he gave my first two Bond films a great, fun character."
In one of his most famous Live And Let Die scenes, Clifton"s hapless Sheriff is trying to apprehend a suspect when James Bond flips his speedboat over the law-enforcer"s car - leaving the baddie in pursuit of Bond to crash his own boat into the Sheriff"s car.
Clifton"s acting career spanned decades after he took up classes following the end of WWII.
Clifton alongside Roger Moore in The Man With The Golden Gun (Photo: EON Productions)
He drew upon his Bond experience for his later role as a corrupt (and still bumbling) sheriff in The Reivers, in which he starred opposite Steve McQueen.
His other notable career highlights include Cool Hand Luke, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, The A-Team and Dukes Of Hazzard.
His last film appearance was in 2006"s Raising Flagg, although he was also cast in 2016"s Old Soldiers, which had to stop production because of the deaths of several older cast members.
Hans Zimmer - Interstellar - Main Theme (Piano Version) + Sheet Music
Hans Zimmers natural habitat is a dark, windowless room.
As one of Hollywoods most successful film composers with scores for dozens of movies stretching from Interstellar and The Dark Knight back to The Lion King and Driving Miss Daisy the 59-year-old Oscar winner spends untold hours in screening rooms and recording studios, including his own private space tucked into a larger complex on a quiet industrial street in Santa Monica.
Filled with polished woodwork and red velvet furniture, it has proved to be an inspiring spot for the man whose music combines lush orchestral arrangements with unconventional electronic textures.
But that didnt keep Zimmers friends from pushing him to try a change of scenery.
This whole thing started with Johnny Marr and Pharrell Williams sitting me down and going, Youve got to get out of here and look your audience in the eye, the composer said the other day, referring to the Smiths guitarist (whom Zimmer drafted to play on Inception) and the hip-hop producer turned pop star (with whom Zimmer worked on Hidden Figures).
And theyre right, he added. At some point you have to see if any of the stuff youve been doing while hiding behind a screen actually resonates with people.
Thats what Zimmer is doing this week by launching the North American leg of his first concert tour, scheduled to stop Friday night at the Microsoft Theater before moving on to a performance Sunday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. (The tour, which the German-born musician took through Europe last year, will return to Los Angeles on Aug. 11 for an encore at the Shrine Auditorium.)
At Coachella, where the bill is dominated by singers and rappers such as Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar, Zimmers instrumental music will no doubt be an oddity. But the composer insists the show hes put together is far from the buttoned-up occasion one might expect.
The reason I didnt do this for the longest time is that Ive always had a problem with the way we present orchestral music, he said, reclined on a sofa with a cup of coffee. Why would you spend an evening of your precious time with a man with his back to you and a bunch of people in suits reading the paper?
Instead, hes promising a more rock-informed experience, with Zimmer not as conductor but as frontman leading a group of more than 70 musicians through freewheeling renditions of some of his favorite themes.
One of those musicians is Marrs 25-year-old son, Nile, who also plays in the British indie trio Man Made and says the Zimmer outfit is basically the biggest band youve ever seen playing the most epic music youve ever heard.
The band approach isnt entirely new for Zimmer. Before he moved into composing for movies, he played briefly as a member of the Buggles, Trevor Horns late-70s new-wave group that scored a hit with Video Killed the Radio Star.
But after that the record company just wanted us to do the same thing again and again and again, he said. So you suddenly realize in rock and roll youre very easily typecast.
Film music, in contrast, offered limitless variation. I wrote Driving Miss Daisy and Black Rain in the same month, and they couldnt be any more different.
Zimmer, who plays keyboard, guitar and banjo in the show, intends to show off the stylistic breadth of his work on tour. But he wont show images from the movies themselves they seduce an audience into ignoring the players onstage, he says. Nor does he plan to deliver any kind of canned commentary.
Scripted, Im terrible, he said. Cant do it. Long time ago, Jeffrey Katzenberg asked me to take part in a presentation about animation at Lincoln Center. And his main press person, I overheard her say, Dont script Hans hes like a plank of wood.
The only way I can treat this is like Im having a dinner party with a few friends. Sometimes I ramble on and lose my way, and sometimes somebody in the band says, Come on, lets play some music.
Is his head sufficiently full of anecdotes that he can conjure stories at the mention of a title?
Go ahead, he said. Name one.
Rain Man.
My first movie in Hollywood, he shot back. Id come to Los Angeles not knowing anybody, not knowing my way around. So I wrote the whole score in Barry [Levinson]s office.
Another windowless room.
Its my fate.
In statements about the tour, Zimmers handlers have said h**l be joined onstage by special guests an especially tantalizing prospect at Coachella, with its densely packed roster. Yet the composer initially played down that idea at his studio, saying hed been completely and utterly consumed by an upcoming movie and hadnt arranged any specific cameos.
Then he kept talking.
Look, Kendrick and I are playing the same night, he said. I havent talked to him about it, but weve done things together. And I think there might be a chance I can persuade Pharrell to come and do something.
Stanley Cup Champions 2016 Pittsburgh Penguins A rookie, a sophomore and a superstar walk into an NHL game. Little did they know that when put on a line together, they would absolutely dominate on the ice. This is what the Pittsburgh Penguins have for their first line.
The Pittsburgh Penguins had a brilliant line in the HBK line last playoffs, but with the sudden injury of Carl Hagelin it seems as though we wont see a repeat of that. however, the penguins current first line consisting of Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel and Conor Sheary may do just the trick.
The three members of the line have went from simply being a make-shift line to fill injury problems into a permanent line that brings a lot of success. Each player brings something new to the table, and as a whole they are very good.
Sidney Crosby
Lets take a look at the centre-piece for this line. The captain and the superstar Sidney Crosby is arguably the greatest hockey player in the world right now. You can say hes so good that he makes everyone around him better. If this is the case, you may be wondering whydoes this line matter?
This line is special. Crosby has shuffled around with linemates many times in the past. This time however, things are clicking very right. Just taking a look at his stats this season, Crosby had one of his best goal scoring seasons ever, including taking the only Maurice Richard trophy that he solely won (he shared it with Steven Stamkos in 2009-10). Crosby finished the season off with 44 goals and 45 assists in 75 games.
Crosby played with Sheary and Guentzel for the majority of the second half of the season. A.K.A, the time when Crosby and the Penguins really started to heat up. You have to give credit where credit is due. Crosbys success is due to his linemates in a huge way.
Now just looking at the two playoff games we played so far you can tell this line is working. Especially in game two, Crosby had three points on the night. Two of these points came from a goal that was assisted by both Guentzel and Sheary, and then another assist on Guentzels goal.
You could think that hes so good that hes just making Guentzel and Sheary better, but lets consider how good both of these guys have also been.
Jake Guentzel
The new rookie in town has made a name for himself. After getting called up thisseason he put up 16 goals and 17 assists for 33 points in only 40 games. This is amazingly impressive for a call-up who was expected to do much less.
He may be the newest one on this line but he has been playing great. A lot of his play doesnt show up in his numbers, but thats OK. You can see that he knows where to go, which is crucial while playing with someone like Sidney Crosby. He brings a great, big game with a good amount of offensive flair that compliments both Crosby and Sheary nicely.
Conor Sheary
I feel like Ive talked about Conor Sheary so much already that its wearing out, but its OK because this has to be enforced. Conor Sheary is good. Hes really good. And his season has been a big reason as to why this line and the entire Pittsburgh Penguins team has been finding success.
In only his sophomore season, Shearyput up 23 goals and 30 assists for 53 points in 61 games. This is a huge escalation from his rookie campaign, and it ranked him fourth on the team in goals and points.
You got to see that this success is coming from his play with his line. 21 of his 23 goals and 27 of his 30 assists were at even strength. Its clear to see that Shearys escalation in his game is because this line works so well.
New Dominant Playoff Line?
The HBK line of the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs was something out of a movie. Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Phil Kessel absolutely exploded on the ice and solidified their line as the most dominant in hockey.
This year, with Hagelin out of the lineup due to injury, this line of Crosby, Guentzel and Sheary may step up to be the new dominant line. Although the HBK line seemed to click perfectly, The chemistry seems to be building with this new line, and they have spent the majority of the second half of the regular season together.
Like I mentioned before, the line already combined for five points while playing together in game two. If they keep playing like this, we may see something really special emerging here.
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SNL: Jimmy Fallon plays Jared Kushner opposite Alec Baldwin’s Trump
If you think of it as a classic business model, Trump likes to invest in winners because they make more money, and Jared has been pretty consistently winning, said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an ally of Mr. Trumps. Youre always on a whats-your-quarterly-report kind of relationship with Trump.
Neither Mr. Kushner nor Ms. Trump have government experience. Mr. Kushner, 36, managed the real estate empire he inherited from his family and bought The New York Observer as a side project. Ms. Trump, 35, was groomed with her brothers to run the family company before starting a fashion brand that appealed to young, urban female consumers likely to align themselves with her fathers opponents.
But the quarterly report on Mr. Kushner shows that he has been in merger-and-acquisition mode. He has expanded his portfolio into a far-ranging set of issues, including Middle East peace, the opioid epidemic, relations with China and Mexico and reorganizing the federal government from top to bottom. Everything runs through me, he told corporate executives during the transition.
Lately, he has pushed to overhaul the criminal justice system, a goal that Mr. Trump embraced as a candidate near the end of the campaign when he tried to siphon black voters away from Hillary Clinton. But Mr. Kushner is running into opposition from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who favors toughening, not relaxing, mandatory minimum sentences.
Some colleagues, including Mr. Bannon and Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, regard Mr. Kushners breathtaking list of assignments with comic contempt, according to a dozen Trump associates who insisted on anonymity to discuss Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump. After Mr. Kushners trip to Iraq, White House aides referred to him as the secretary of state.
But they are warier of Ms. Trump, who only recently arrived in the West Wing and until now has been a more sporadic player than her ambitious husband. Initially resistant to a formal role in the administration, Ms. Trump took an office and a government position albeit, like her husband, without accepting a salary out of concern over the troubles of her fathers first couple of months in office.
According to associates, she views her role partly as guardian of the family reputation and has fretted during and since the campaign about the long-term damage to the family businesss image that her fathers political career could cause.
When Ms. Trump does intervene, her father listens although he does not always take her advice. One person close to the family described her influence as a delayed-action fuse: At times the president will mention a point Ms. Trump made, uncredited, days later.
Her brother Eric Trump said she was upset by pictures of victims from the chemical attack in Syria and that may have encouraged their father to retaliate. He defended family members being in the White House, saying relatives are more candid. The beautiful thing about family is you play on a little bit of a different dynamic and once in a while you can pull them aside and say, No disrespect but you might want to think about this or maybe you crossed the line here, he told The Daily Telegraph.
The White House had no comment on Friday. But the supposed backstage liberal counterrevolution that critics fear has yielded modest results. Last week, the president signed legislation allowing states to deny federal funding to womens health care providers offering abortion services, like Planned Parenthood. Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner were skiing in Canada, just as they were on the slopes in Aspen during the collapse of the health care effort.
I think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard, Ms. Trump recently told CBS News. In some cases, its through protest and its through going on the nightly news and talking about or denouncing every issue on which you disagree with. Other times it is quietly and directly and candidly.
So where I disagree with my father, he knows it, she added. And I express myself with total candor. Where I agree, I fully lean in and support the agenda and and hope that I can be an asset to him and and make a positive impact. But I respect the fact that he always listens. Its how he was in business. Its how he is as president.
Other presidents have relied on family. John Adams appointed John Quincy Adams minister to Prussia. Edith Wilson effectively ran the White House when Woodrow Wilson was stricken. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote reports to Franklin D. Roosevelt from around the country and their daughter Anna Roosevelt was a gatekeeper in his later days.
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The prospect of Stephen K. Bannons dismissal has brought renewed attention to the inner workings of President Trumps White House, a fractious ecosystem of competing centers of power.
Dwight D. Eisenhower made his son John Eisenhower a White House aide. Robert F. Kennedy served as his brothers attorney general and Nancy Reagan as her husbands quasi-personnel director. George Bush asked George W. Bush to ease out his chief of staff. Hillary Clinton famously ran a health care task force.
The history is that it is very common for the whole family to become involved in the White House, said Doug Wead, who researched presidential children for the first President Bush and later wrote a book. The Trumps are not as good at hiding the family involvement as others, but it is there for almost all of the presidents with adult children.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian at the National First Ladies Library, said Ms. Trump can play a vital role for her father and praised her for being transparent about taking the assignment rather than operating behind the scenes, predicting that her participation will prove the single greatest success of the first 100 days of her fathers presidency.
But Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers, a history of White House chiefs of staff, said relatives in the West Wing can confuse the chain of command. It can be disastrous if they exert their influence at the expense of the chief of staff, he said.
At the center of the Trump presidency is a paradox: Even allies acknowledge Mr. Trump is impulsive, indifferent to preparation and prone to embracing the last advice offered. He needs a strong hand to guide him, but insists on appearing in firm command, so any aide perceived as pulling strings can face his wrath sooner or later. It was Mr. Trump, not his children, who pushed Mr. Bannon to the margins, motivated less by ideology than by dissatisfaction with recent failures and his perception that his chief strategist was running an off-the-books operation to aggrandize himself at Mr. Trumps expense.
Mr. Trump remains annoyed by a February cover of Time magazine labeling Mr. Bannon The Great Manipulator, telling one visitor this month, That doesnt just happen a favored Trump expression for anger at subordinates who tend to their interests ahead of his.
At the same time, the president and his family have closely monitored Mr. Bannons former website, Breitbart, which they regarded as a weapon in his war against White House rivals. Confronted about the site, Mr. Bannon told the president that it was operating beyond his control and against his wishes.
Ms. Trump has never been close to Mr. Bannon, although she appreciated the ferocity of his work, people close to her said. She puts him in the category of colorful, rough-hewed characters her father collects, with the likes of Roger Stone, a longtime Trump operative.
In recent weeks, she has spoken bluntly about Mr. Bannons shortcomings to the president. She was especially incensed by articles she believed were planted by Mr. Bannons allies suggesting he, not her father, honed the populist economic message that helped sweep the Midwest. She made that point in the strongest terms to her father, who agreed, according to a family friend.
Mr. Trump would prefer the situation with Mr. Bannon to stabilize, according to people familiar with his thinking, and to keep Mr. Bannon on board, albeit in a more circumscribed role, than see him become a populist critic outside the gates. Mr. Bannon intuitively understands the presidents connection to white working-class voters and his instinct to demolish political norms. And neither Ms. Trump nor her husband have so far plunged into day-to-day government operations or logged the 18-hour days the indefatigable Mr. Bannon routinely works.
They have important allies, though, including two Goldman Sachs veterans, Gary Cohn, the national economics adviser, and Dina Powell, a deputy national security adviser. Mr. Cohn, a Democrat, has been projected as a future chief of staff, and Ms. Powell, a Republican veteran of the second Bush administration, has served as all-around West Wing fixer.
While Mr. Cohn has been attacked by the right, Ms. Powell is praised by conservatives like Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, and she and Ms. Trump have been working with Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor who remains a favorite of grass-roots Republicans. Perhaps tellingly, Stephen Miller, Mr. Trumps policy adviser, has shifted away from Mr. Bannon, his onetime ally. He has worked with Ms. Trump since the campaign on child care and other issues, and colleagues said he endeared himself to her and mr. kushner in order to get more freedom to pursue anti-immigration policies that animate him.
The larger shift has generated consternation among Mr. Trumps supporters. Scott McConnell, a founding editor of The American Conservative magazine, mocked the presidents daughter and son-in-law as bright, conventionally wisdomed yuppie New Yorkers who have never had to formulate or defend a complicated foreign policy position in their lives.
Writing on the website Vox, he said, I certainly didnt vote for the foreign policy preferences of Jared and Ivanka, or a policy driven by whatever images on TV happened to move the president.
The expectation that Ms. Trump will push her father to the left on social issues has been unhelpful, people close to her said. She shares his economically conservative view and did not enter the White House to be a social issues warrior, they said.
For his part, Mr. Kushner has succeeded in part because he has never tried to explain what Jared wants, Mr. Gingrich said. He is very attuned to listening to Trump and trying to figure out what Trump needs, and what Trump is trying to get done.
Mr. Kushner has served as the presidents eyes and ears. Jared is constantly reaching outside the Trump inner circle to get feedback, said Kathy Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, on whose board he served. That is really making an impression on people that theres an opportunity to have input into whats happening in the White House.
Mr. Kushner stays calm when others are frayed by Mr. Trumps explosive temper. During the campaign, when the candidate was incensed by the performance of his aides, he reminded his father-in-law that four people could not be fired himself and the three Trump siblings.
Still, if Mr. Trump lives by any management dictum, it may be this: The only indispensable employee looks back from his mirror.
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A missile that could be a new ICBM, seen at the Apr. 15 military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, to mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung, in this photo from the Apr. 15 edition of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper. (Yonhap News)
Also on auspicious weekend, North Korea appeared to fail in missile launch attempt; type of missile not yet known North Korea revealed what is believed to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a military review on Apr. 15.It also launched a ballistic missile on Apr. 16, in an apparent signal that Pyongyang does not plan to back down in the face of military pressure from the US Donald Trump administration.North Korea staged a military review at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang to commemorate the 105th anniversary of Kim Il-sungs birth on Apr. 15. During the review, which was broadcast live by state-run Korean Central Television (KCTV) from 10:05 am South Korea time, a suspected new ICBM in a cylindrical launching tube was seen being transported on a large truck. The missile represented a new model that had not been shown in public before.It appears to be longer than the KN-08 or the KN-14, which are the ICBMs that have previously been shown in public. It looks to be a new kind of ICBM, said a military source.North Korea also showed what is believed to be a KN-14 missile on a transporter erector launcher (TEL). The KN-14 was unveiled at an Oct. 2015 event for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers Party, with observers at the time believing it to be an improved version of the KN-08. Also shown for the first time at the Apr. 15 review were the submarine-launched ballistic missile Pukguksong (KN-11), which was test-launched last August; the solid-propellant ballistic missile Pukguksong-2 (KN-15), which was test-launched in February; and the Scud-Extended Range (ER).In a celebratory speech, Workers Party Central Committee vice chair Choe Ryong-hae said, The new administration in the US is gravely threatening world peace and security by constantly carrying out military attacks against sovereign states.
Two Pukguksong SLBM missiles, seen during the Apr. 15 military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, to mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung, in a korean central television broadcast. (yonhap News)
We will answer total war with total war and nuclear war with our own [North Korean] version of nuclear strike warfare, he continued, signaling Pyongyangs commitment to responding to US pressure by showing off its own strategic weaponry.The main focus of attention at the review was on the suspected new ICBM. Its surface similarities to Russias recently deployed new Topol-M ICBM suggest it is capable of traveling as far as the mainland US. But with North Korea not actually showing what kind of missile was inside the launch tube, there are still questions about its actual capabilities.The broadcast also showed images from the leaders section, where State Security Minister Kim Won-hong - the subject of previous purge rumors - was seen receiving a four-star generals insignia and sitting between Minister of Peoples Security Choe Pu-il and Supreme Guard commander Yun Jong-rin. Kims appearance on Apr. 15 raised the possibility that previous South Korean Ministry of Unification claims that he had been dismissed after a January downgrade to from general to one-star major general may have been false.Meanwhile, the Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that North Korea appeared to have unsuccessfully attempted a missile launch in the area of Sinpo, South Hamgyong Province, at around 6:20 am on Apr. 16.Its difficult to ascertain the missile type at the moment because it exploded in midair shortly after launch. Additional analysis will be needed, said a military official.By Park Byong-su, senior staff writer Please direct questions or comments to [english@hani.co.kr]
Best of Hans Zimmer - All time greatest soundtracks!
It took 30 years for me to get out of a dark, windowless room, and look where I am, joked Hans Zimmer, gesturing out to the dark, windowless, boxy Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles Friday night (April 14).
But this was a very different scene for the Oscar-winning composer than the usual solitude that accompanies writing music to such movies as The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Driving Miss Daisy, Interstellar and dozens more. This night, he was in a dark, windowless room with more than 7,000 rabid fans, who treated him like a rock star fromthe minute he walked on stage. Theres good reason for that he does appear in the Buggles music clip for Video Killed The Radio Star, after all but the reception was more due to Zimmers status as the most famous living composer today, after John Williams. His body of work is renowned for his deft ability to fuse seamlessly electronic, synthesized music with traditional orchestration.
That skill was on display almost from the start as Zimmer, who is on tour through August, first appeared with the members of his band all on the same level, and then the curtain rose to reveal another tier with more members of his 20-piece band. As the music swelled, a higher tier showcased an orchestra, and then the curtain rose even more to expose a 16-piece choir on the upper-most level. The dramatic layered presentation, plus the impressive lighting, hung nearly four stories high, added to the grandeur of the night.
However, make no mistake, this is not your grandfathers typical movie concert featuring a tuxedo-clad pop symphony (not that theres anything wrong with that, and, perhaps as a joke, Zimmer did come out in tails, which he discarded less than five minutes in). This was a full-on rock concert, which makes it all the more fitting that Zimmer will take the show to Coachella the next two Sundays (April 16 and 23). Forget any of the expected movie clips. Instead, projected behind the musicians were tight shots of hands playing instruments or trippy, psychedelic pop art images that made the show resemble a Pink Floyd concert. Thats what you get when you hire Pink Floyds lighting designer, Marc Brickman, who deserves an award for his innovative, impactful work here.
While the lack of clips initially seemed odd, it soon became apparent that the lack of contextual movie footage meant that the music written to accompany pictures now had to stand on its own. And the compositions resoundingly did, with some taking on a new resonance in such a setting. For example, the score for Terrence Malicks 1998 WW2 epic, The Thin Red Line, played as only pulsing red lines appeared behind the musicians, took on a throbbing tension that took it out of the battlefield and into the current stress of everyday life as the strings and guitars collided.
Under less skilled hands, having more than 50 musicians and singers on stage would likely result in cacophony. Whenever things threatened to become too bombastic, such as during the rallying battle cry of Gladiator, the mood delicately shifted, with Czarina Russell, whom Zimmer has known since she was four, arriving to vocalize the lilting female soul of the piece, as the composer put it. In addition to Russell, his ties with several of the musicians went back more than 30 years, with many of them playing on the original scores they recreated Friday night. Though all were exceptional, standouts included drummer Satnam Singh Ramgotra, cellist Tina Guo, and woodwinds player Pedro Eustache. The joy Zimmer took in extolling his colleagues was genuine and infectious. Zimmer himself tackled piano, acoustic and electric guitar and even banjo (on Sherlock Holmes).
Though the crowd was in Zimmers hands from the start, the opening African vocals of The Lion King received the most thunderous roar as Lebo M, who sang on the original score, emerged from the wings. The exultant, majestic theme was a highlight, as was The Dark Knight trilogy, a suite that perhaps showed off the most range of the evening, with its industrial, metallic strikes giving way to anarchistic, tribal rhythms. In one of the evenings most emotional moments, Zimmer then introduced Aurora, a refined, exquisite piece composed after zimmer and director christopher Nolan learned of the movie theater attack in Colorado the night the film opened. We wanted something that felt like our arms were reaching out to embrace you, he said.
The concert began with Zimmer at the piano playing the jaunty theme to Driving Miss Daisy and, clearly by design, ended with him alone at the piano again, this time performing a piece from Inception. After taking us through time and space (literally, with Interstellars themes of infinite possibilities) and extravagant adventures on the high seas (Pirates of the Caribbeans menacing fun), he brought the music back to the solitary element of the piano as a reminder that distilling down to its barebones essence is always where the search for musical truth begins.
Portland Trail Blazers vs Golden State Warriors 1st QTR Highlights Game 1 April 16,2017
OAKLAND, Calif. -- That chase for 73 wins and breaking the Chicago Bulls" record last season generated so much scrutiny when the golden State Warriors failed to win it all at the end.
How might have that taken a toll come playoff time? Did fatigue factor in when it mattered most?
Nah, Steve Kerr refuses to think about it that way. Stephen Curry"s injury sure did, though. Absolutely.
The two-time reigning NBA MVP sprained the MCL in his right knee when he slipped on a wet spot just before halftime of a Game 4 win at Houston in the first round of the 2016 playoffs.
"Steph gets banged up the first game of the playoffs which affected his whole run," Kerr said. "You can"t account for that stuff. You try your best to keep your eye on guys and to keep them fresh, but honestly Steph was pretty fresh going into last season"s postseason. So this year we"re doing what we can to make sure guys are ready to roll, but you never know what"s going to happen."
Now, the Warriors - who at 67-15 had the NBA"s best record for a third straight year - and Trail Blazers prepare to face off in the playoffs for a second straight season after Golden State beat Portland in a five-game Western Conference semifinals last year.
Kerr rested players down the stretch as needed, he mixed Kevin Durant back in after a 19-game absence with a left knee injury.
"We"re chasing something, we"re not protecting anything this year," Curry said. "... In theory, we"re not the hunted. Obviously, we have the best record but we"re not defending a championship. There"s really no pressure. Two years ago we were trying to climb the ladder again and now we"re in that kind of same mentality. It"s good for us to go just go in with all the confidence in the world that we"ve built up this regular season and understand that every round"s going to be different, every round"s going to be just a dogfight. We understand how important every single game is on that journey."
The Blazers lost all four regular-season meetings but went 17-6 down the stretch.
Curry was sidelined for the first three games of that series last year before coming off the bench in a playoff game for the first time in his career in Game 4 and scoring 40 points, with an NBA record 17 in overtime of a 132-125 victory.
All of that is in the past, Durant assures.
"Last year"s over," KD said Saturday. "Just trying to move on. We know this is a different season, a different team, just a different year. We"re not coming in saying, `Because of last year, we"re trying to get revenge or we"re trying to show everybody what we got.""
