When not scoring movies, he plays Motown standards on electric guitar at public-school fund-raisers for his two children.

Eidelman currently resides in Santa Monica, California and continues to score movies.

Guitarist Michael Jurin is a member of the Philadelphia based band The Midnight Sounds, creates his own music under the name Piano Belly and has scored various short independent movies.

Now that Ashman is gone, Mr. Menken, who recently signed a seven-year contract to score animated movies exclusively for Disney, acknowledges that he feels additional pressure to prove himself.

He has composed more than 200 settings for the liturgy, as well as scored numerous television programs, made-for-TV movies, and documentary films.

He scored numerous television shows, including episodes of Dallas and Falcon's Crest, as well as many made-for-TV movies.

Saunders has scored movies, corporate videos, TV shows and commercials, and produced many CDs, primarily out of his own studio, Magic Castle.

After that, he scored numerous movies for other great directors like Jean-Pierre Mocky, Costa-Gavras or Patrice Leconte.

Scored movies as diverse as the romantic comedy The Woman of my Life, and the dark documentary Boomerang, (about police-violence.)

The score music was composed by Clint Mansell who has also scored such movies as The Fountain and Requiem for a Dream.