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Films by the National Film Board of Canada, including Pas do Deux, Lonely Boy (about Paul Anka), and others, tonight, 4:30, 8:30 p.m., Friday through Tuesday...
Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel (Capitol). Ron stadt sheds her foxy Barbie doll image for an assertive straight forward approach that displays her vocal diversity. Besides Ronstadt's supersmash single You 're No Good, cuts include the title song by the talented Anna McGarrigle, and Paul Anka's It Doesn 't Matter Anymore...
...around Los Angeles and with the Rolling Stones in England. His dexterous rhythm work on guitar and mandolin had won him a reputation as a good musician who could juice up anyone's record, and he played behind everyone from Captain Beefheart and the Everly Brothers to Paul Anka. His work on the sound track of 1970's Performance, a movie of scattershot brilliance about a gangster and a rock star, further keyed up interest in Cooder's own album debut. "I think the people at the record company expected some kind of wild-assed rock...
...part of Women's Equality Day, the National Organization for Women last week staged its annual putdown of male chauvinism: Media Awards. Among the winners: a "Keep Her in Her Place" prize went to Singer Paul Anka for his tune Having My Baby and to Seals and Crofts for their Unborn Child. A "Discarded Older Woman" award was given to Ash Wednesday, the Elizabeth Taylor film of a middle-aged wife who undergoes a body-lift in order to keep her husband. Ad writers for National Airlines won a "Hall of Shame" award for their "Fly Me" campaign...
...made about the man who began as a hard-driving rock star and became a sort of spangled mascot of Middle America. There is plentiful material here for social satire, the sort of thing the National Film Board of Canada did so nicely in their lacerating documentary on Paul Anka, Lonely Boy. Elvis might also have made a subject for a diverting visual essay on the sociology of pop. The filmmakers, who are responsible for the easygoing Joe Cocker documentary Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1971), attempt none of this. Instead they settle for compiling an obsequious family album...