FILM SCORE MONTHLY (Volume 7, Number 4)

Cover Story
The Amazing Elf-Man -- Our friendly neighborhood composer returns to super-hero land after more than a decade to bring his scoring sense to Sam Raimi's Spider-Man.

Feature Articles
Legend Resurrected -- At long last, the Legend DVD is finally available. In both a feature and an exclusive interview with DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, FSM's Laserphile, Andy Dursin, takes an in-depth look at the Ridley Scott movie's controversial history, its two different scores and what it took to finally get the DVD done.
Star Wars Episode Tunes: Attack on the Score -- Reviews are still coming in for George Lucas' latest installment of the Star Wars saga, but one thing's for sure: The music took a beating, with massive edits made to John Williams' score, as well as large chunks of music tracked in from The Phantom Menace. Here's an exhaustive look at the music, newly composed and otherwise, used in Attack of the Clones. Includes score excerpts in musical notation form.

Artistic Devolution -- Once the frontman for the '80s alternative band Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh has evolved over the years into the go-to guy for quirky indie-style films, as well as some mainstream comedies -- and learned to accept the typecasting that comes with it.

Downbeat: Dinosaurs and Cowboys -- Trevor Jones on Dinotopia and Edward Bilous on PBS' Frontier House.

Retrograde: Winners and Dinners -- Pictures from 2002 ASCAP Awards Dinner and Flanders International Film Festival Dinner.

Monthly Departments
Score: CD Reviews -- Christus Apollo, Panic Room, The Time Machine (2002), The Boy Who Could Fly, Day of the Dead, Hart's War, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, The Long, Hot Summer/Sanctuary, Last Orders, Music for the Movies: Benjamin Frankel, I...come Icare, E Poi lo Chiamarono il Magnifico, Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood, Way Out West 2, Ocean's Eleven, A Different Light: Anne Dudley, The Black Stallion/The Black Stallion Returns, Invincible.
Pocket CD Reviews -- The Rookie, The Cat's Meow, Pure Horror, E.T. 20th Anniversary Release, Mothman Prophecies, Ali II, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, Monster's Ball, Six Feet Under.
* Excerpt from Film Score Monthly