Angel of the
First Degree

June 24, 2002, at 8:22:21 PM:

A few words for M.C.C.

Honey Blonde
She’s as sweet as
  tupelo honey
She’s an angel
  of the first degree.
She’s as sweet as
  tupelo honey
Just like honey, baby,
  from the bee.
— Van Morrison, 1971

Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer, Dies at 82

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:22 a.m. ET
Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004

LOS ANGELES (AP)– Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as “The Ten Commandments,” “The Magnificent Seven,”‘ “To Kill a Mockingbird,”‘ “The Great Escape” and “True Grit,” died Wednesday. He was 82.

Bernstein died in his sleep at his Ojai home.

That, M.C.C., is what
Fritz Leiber means by

The Big Time.