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The movie opens with a sweat-dripping scene of the Kid and his band "Revolution"--who are dressed like an amalgam of Errol Flynn and Donna Summer and make Bette Midler's antics look angelic--onstage at the First Avenue Club & 7th Street Entry, a Minneapolis club where Prince also...
Angelic
The final shots of Confidentially Yours sum up what the movie is all about. Showing a choirful of angelic-looking children singing in a cathedral, the camera zooms in on the first row of black patent-leather shoes. We are shown a rock that is being kicked from one child...
Something pulled her over; and something gave in; and all three pairs of wings began to beat [Wiley has proposed this metaphor earlier in the proceedings]: she was the center and the source and the victim of a storm of wing beats; we were at the top of the world...
AS HILDESHEIMER WARNED at the outset, this confident though unassuming biography leaves us with a still-unresolved composite of "an inconceivably great mind." All the cliched preconceptions--the angelic genius, the pauper-composer who hardly needed to think about the music he produced, the partier--are soon quashed. Hildesheimer, steeped...