<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>The Astaire movie is "Follow the Fleet" with Randolph Scott, Ginger Rogers and Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie Nelson's band-singer wife, later of "Ozzie and Harriet" fame. ) Fred then proceeds to (!really!) play a superb rendition of "I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket", by Irving Berlin, who wrote the whole score.<br /><br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">There's a movie with Morgan Freeman tuning a piano and one with Fred Astaire tuning a piano. Haven't got a clue what the names are, maybe someone else knows, but the one with Freeman was a mystery and the with Astaire had him in a Navy hat....<div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jan 22, 2013, at 4:22 PM, paul bruesch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I posted about <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285144/">this one</a> in June 2011 on the "other" list, and now I see it's currently available on Netflix Instant. A piano tech plays a prominent role throughout the film. It's not a 100% accurate portrayal, but not completely bogus, either.<div>
<br></div><div style="">Paul Bruesch</div><div style="">Frozen in Stillwater, MN, where, just a couple hours ago we broke above 0°F for the first time in about 48 hours. Pity is welcomed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:22 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paulmulik@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">paulmulik@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Yesterday I watched a somewhat obscure movie called Killer Diller (made in 2004 and available from Netflix -- Not to be confused with a 1948 film with the same title.) It's about a group of young adults at a halfway house who have reluctantly formed a gospel band (at the insistence of the man who runs the house, played by Fred Willard), and a young autistic man from the community named Vernon, who is a piano savant.<br>
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In the film, Vernon (Lucas Black) carries a tuning lever with him and every time he comes to a piano, he insists on tuning one note before he plays. I didn't check, but I think it was the same note every time. As one who deals with autism on a daily basis, I found this interesting.<br>
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I can't think of very many movies in which someone is seen tuning a piano. Tuners are mentioned (but not seen) in Mary Poppins and The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Whoopi Goldberg's character attempts to tune a piano in the second Sister Act film. Anybody know of others?<br>
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