He has led most of the world's major orchestras, won Oscars for his movie music, written for Broadway and concert and opera halls, and has been knighted by the Queen of England.

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Gould was simultaneously witty, erudite, very shrewd about his place in the music world, and slightly mad, and the movie makes it clear that his physical needs some real, some imagined, and each requiring a separate doctor and brace of pills finally overcame his sanity and led to his early death.

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Eventually his luck changed with the success of the movie Baazigar (1993), winning him his first Filmfare Best Music Director Award, which he won again in 2004 for Main Hoon Na.

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But Dotcom, by his own admission, says the apparent movie and music industry push against the Mega radio ads was an "emotional reaction" from the content industry.

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At a time when New Yorkers routinely spot Leonardo DiCaprio in person at Manhattan's trendiest nightspots, Ms. Lewinsky's reported social life does not extend beyond a quick handshake with William Safire at the Cosmos Club--a scene that will presumably be accompanied in the movie by background music from Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.

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His insistence on having a thumping music score accompany 80% of the movie makes for some tiresome viewing.

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In 1972, he played a small benefit for George McGovern, at a movie theatre in Red Bank, but, as a young man, his interest in the music was almost completely as a source of personal liberation.

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