And so it goes...

Ennio Morricone has passed away at the age of 91. I was just listening to "The Ecstasy of Gold" the other day; everybody associates Morricone's scores with Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, but he scored a lot more movies than that...

Mr. Morricone scored many popular films of the past 40 years: Édouard Molinaro’s “La Cage aux Folles” (1978), Mr. Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982), Mr. De Palma’s “The Untouchables” (1987), Roman Polanski’s “Frantic” (1988), Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso” (1988), Wolfgang Petersen’s “In the Line of Fire” (1993), and Mr. Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” (2015).