Happy Birthday Terry Zwigoff!

Celebrating the birthday of filmmaker and cellist Terry Zwigoff with some performance footage of Robert Crumb's Hollywood 4

LINKS

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast Terry Zwigoff interview

NME Terry Zwigoff: "America is woven out of falsehood"

Happy Birthday Mohammed Rafi

Remembering Bollywood singer Mohammed Rafi who voiced "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" for Gumnaam, and used for Ghost World.

Happy Birthday Terry Zwigoff

Watch Terry's fab first feature, 1985's Louie Bluie, a documentary about string band great Howard Armstrong.

One For The Weekend: Ted Lyons & His Cubs

Before being repurposed by Terry Zwigoff as a catchy opening for his 2001 film Ghost World and crudely copped last year for a Heineken beer spot "The Date," this dazzlingly choreographed sequence was originally created by Herman Benjamin for Raja Nawathe's 1965 Bollywood suspense thriller Gumnaam built around a Shankar Jaikishan composition powerfully voiced by the legendary Mohammed Rafi. Had Ted Lyons & His Cubs  – who appear on the bandstand synching the song Jaan Pehechan Ho (We Should Get To Know Each Other) for the film – actually performed and recorded the tune the following five minutes and thirty surreal seconds of masked hip-shaking madness could've been the greatest promotional music video ever. Some 47 years on, the stand-alone clip remains strangely captivating thanks largely to Benjamin's magnificent moves – that's Herman fronting the band as "Ted Lyons."