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various genres, including horror movies (like “Gremlins” and his Oscar-winning score for “The Omen”), dramas (such as “Rudy” and his Oscar-nominated score for “Patton”), thrillers (including “Basic Instinct” and his Oscar-nominated score for “Chinatown”), action flicks (such as Rambo: First Blood Part II and “Air Force One”); sci-fi/fantasy films (his Oscarnominated scores for the original “Planet of the Apes” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” among those); and more. Goldsmith racked up 18 Academy Award nominations and one win over his career, and he is one of only five composers — along with fellow film-scoring legends Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner and John Williams — to have had more than one score selected for inclusion on the American Film Institute’s 2005 list of the 25 greatest film scores in American cinema. The lineup on Turner Classic Movies celebrates the diversity and enduring legacy of Goldsmith with four films for which he composed the scores. It starts with “Seven Days in May” (1964), director John Frankenheimer’s political thriller, featuring a screenplay by Rod Serling, about a military-political cabal’s planned takeover of the U.S. government. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March and Ava Gardner star. Up next is the inspired-by-a-truestory prison break classic “Papillon” (1973), which stars Steve Mcqueen and Dustin Hoffman, and which earned Goldsmith an Oscar nomination for his emotional score. Following that is a film that boasts one of Goldsmith’s finest scores of the 1980s, and one that earned him yet another Oscar nod: “Poltergeist” (1982). Producer/co-writer Steven Spielberg’s haunted house thriller is greatly enhanced by Goldsmith’s memorable music, not only through the more exciting and fast-moving parts of the score, but also via the more quietly ominous elements of the movie’s main theme, the simultaneously soothing and creepy, lullabylike “Carol Anne’s Theme.” The Goldsmith celebration concludes with “The Wind and the Lion” (1975), the action-packed Sean Connery and Candice Bergen-led war film that boasts another Oscar-nominated score by Goldsmith, who earned praise for incorporating a large and diverse ensemble of instruments for this music, including many from Morocco, the movie’s setting.
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“The American Rescue Dog Show” is the preeminent dog competition featuring rescued companions as they strut their fluff, competing for a slew of “best in” titles while stealing America’s hearts. In the two-hour special, rescued dogs from all across the country will compete in seven categories including Best in Underbite, Best in Snoring and Best in Belly Rubs.
Discovery Channel, 9 p.m.; also streams on discovery+ Season Premiere! In Season 5 of adventurer Josh Gates’ “Expedition Unknown” spinoff series, Gates and his team of investigators continue to explore the stranger side of
the unknown. The premiere episode kicks off in the notorious Ring of Fire, where scientist Phil Torres and paranormal researcher Jessica Chobot investigate videos and eyewitness reports of mysterious objects flying around Mexico’s tallest active volcano. Later, Phil and Jess test a bold scientific theory at the site of America’s deadliest avalanche and train wreck, where witnesses report bizarre apparitions and rumors swirl about a shocking coverup.