Album Reviews

Les Bohem

Moved to Duarte

Artist:     Les Bohem

Album:     Moved to Duarte

Label:     jackrabbitday Records

Release Date:     12/09/2016

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You may know Les Bohem from the ’80s bands, Gleaming Spires and Sparks. Or maybe you are currently binge-watching his recent creation, Shut Eye, on Hulu. No matter how you know Les Bohem, it’s just important that you do know his name.

Coinciding with Shut Eye’s debut, Bohem is also releasing an album of folk songs this week, Moved to Duarte. His screenwriting credits include Taken and Dante’s Peak, but his experiences in the LA music scene are what brings him back to songwriting. It’s no doubt that Bohem is a storyteller, evident in tales he spins throughout this debut solo release.

“The Moral Premise” and “Bruce Springsteen Dyes His Hair” are some good ones to listen to if you’re just interested in a sampling (and can’t pull yourself away from Hulu). Overall, the sad, depressing melodies on this album aren’t the best tunes to listen to during the cold winter months. However, Bohem’s distinguished status and clever writing make this a must-have… and for that reason, you should go buy it.

-Brenda Hillegas

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  1. To ELMORE MAGAZINE, regarding LESLIE BOHEM, – MUSICIAN / WRITER

    Dear Sir,

    I contact you regarding LESLIE BOHEM, – MUSICIAN / WRITER, – who you contacted with.

    I ask you to deliver this email directly to Leslie Bohem. You should know that it is in his interest, and I will consider that you have handed it to him, and if he does not respond to me, that I am ready to launch a rigorous campaign against him against all his publishers, and everyone in the USA and worldwide, because I have records for reasonable doubt that :
    – that he plagiarized my MAGMA TOWN script, and wrote his DANTE S PEAK, and that he sold it in November 1995. to UNIVERSALSTUDIOS for $ 1,2 million.

    Please take this very seriously, because if you do not send him this email, or avoid it in any way, as well as if he does not answer me, I will extend the lawsuit against him, and even worse, I will launch the sharpest campaign against him to all companies with whom he has worked or is working and others in the USA as well as worldwide.

    Aleksandar Skocajic, from Belgrade, Serbia.

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    Leslie Bohem,

    my name is Aleksandar Skocajic, from Belgrade, Serbia. I know that you know very well about me, from many sources, as well as from my phone call in 1997., when I have found your number, and you were in pure shock, after 30 seconds you ended the conversation in a panic, after you I never found, you ran away obviously and L. A., I found your ex-girlfriend and Seattle and contacted her, and now I found you and there is no more running away. i DISCOVERED that movie DANTE S PEAK was shot based of using my original and on August 17, 1994 in JAA – AUTHOR AGENCY FOR SERBIA D.D., registered and protected script called MAGMA TOWN (VOLCANO OF DEATH) – see Certificate in Attachment, and which scenario with the Certificate of Registration I sent by mail to several addresses of film companies in L.A. starting from September 1994 until the summer of 1995. I have been looking for you for over 24 years. I remind you that I have evidence for reasonable doubt that : that in the spring of 1995, you found my script in one of the film companies in L.A. to whom I sent the script, took that script, plagiarized my MAGMA TOWN script, and you reworked my script to a lesser extent during the summer of 1995, and that you sold your script in November 1995. to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS for $ 1,2 million.

    I didn’t sue you then, I didn’t know your address, but in 2000, I sued UNIVERSAL PICTURES, Gale Anne Hurd and PACIFIC WESTERN and 3 DISTRIBUTORS and this trial is apparently repeatedly interrupted by some of them.

    You were only 36 at the time and your illegal taking of my registered script was a serious legal offense and you got over my back and my Copyright those $ 1,2 million, which actually belong to me, and without that money the big question is whether you could make a career, which I see during these 20 years made, traveled the world,, etc and who knows where.

    All documentation and all evidence against you and others (including UNIVERSAL PICTURES, Gale Anne Hurd and PACIFIC WESTERN and others, I have it stored in the safe and in case of my death (since I am not so young, – I am 76 years old, 6 more than you), everything will be taken over by my heirs and continue the proceedings against you and others until the end.

    I am asking you to compensate me for the damage you have done to me, and to pay me the amount of $ 1,2 million., and the plus the average interest rate on interest on term savings for the past 24 years, which will not be a higher amount, but we must meet the legal form. This will not be a problem for you as I have been informed that you own a total value of $ 17 million. https://networthwikibio.org/leslie-bohem-net-worth/

    In that case, I will release you from responsibility for the plagiarism you obviously committed against me, in a written statement, even though you did not deserve it at all, because you illegally deprived me of the opportunity to use my earnings for the past 24 years (all that time I lived with about $ 500 a month), and what’s worse, you prevented myself from being named as the real author and writer appearing on DANTE S PEAK film credits, – which I deserved.

    I suggest you to take this very seriously, because if you do not answer me on this email, or avoid me in any way, as well as if you do not answer me, I will extend the lawsuit against you, and even worse, I will launch the sharpest campaign against you to all companies, with whom you have worked or are working and others in the USA as well as worldwide.

    Just ask Gale Anne Hurd, also others, how they have been doing for the last 6 years or so, and they should know, and you with them, that I and my heirs will not leave you alone while you are alive.

    You have 3 days until June 11, 2021, I will launch the strongest possible campaign against you with my evidence throughout the United States and worldwide.

    Also watch attached documents : domestic and US Certificates of Registration my script, front page with seals of my registered script MAGMA TOWN, -three back letters from UNIVERSAL,( January till April 1997), also back letters from very known Film companies from
    L. A. and a few Magazine articles from Belgrade in or about 1997.

    Aleksandar Skocajic, from Belgrade, Serbia.