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Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga ... and Mulholland Drive. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2008. Badalamenti was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Italian family; his mother was from Sicily and his father was a fish market owner. Badalamenti spent much of his childhood listening to opera and classical music. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and at Manhattan School of Music where he earned a master's degree in music. Badalamenti scored films such as Gordon's War, and Law and Disorder, but his big break came when he was brought in to be Isabella Rossellini's singing coach for the song "Blue Velvet" in David Lynch's classic film Blue Velvet. Rossellini was supposed to sing "Song to the Siren," a song by Tim Buckley, but Lynch was unable to secure the rights to use it. Badalamenti and Lynch collaborated to write "Mysteries of Love", using lyrics Lynch wrote and Badalamenti's music.
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Now a part of Malibu Creek State Park, the Century Movie Ranch was purchased in 1946 by 20th Century Fox for outdoor shooting. Sold to the state of California in 1974, it was opened as a recreational area in 1976 feature films, such as Pleasantville continue to be filmed here. Fox bought the park,... along with some adjoining properties, in 1946 after using the area for filming How Green Was My Valley in 1941. The ranch was used for many movies and TV shows, it was the permanent base for the exteriors for M*A*S*H, and was used in the Planet of the Apes movies.
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