'Forget it, Jake, It's Chinatown'

Whenever temperatures soar into the high 90s, my thoughts turn to the Chinatown film score. My Pavlovian reaction dates back to the summer of 1974, when I worked as a ticker-ripper and usher at a General Cinema duplex movie theater in the northern suburbs of New York before the start of college. Among the many great movies out that summer was the Jack N…