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...that until now has kept Townshend writing and The Who performing true lifeline rock 'n' roll. The members of The Who know what this music means, know its power and its necessary mutability. They also know what it means to the kids, not just a quick charge and an antic rush in a minute of concert footage but a change as potentially profound as any art can work, and even more immediate. All of this is in the four lines of Music Must Change that Townshend sings quietly, almost to himself...
...influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy can be seen in the antic portraits of hogs and frogs and owls. The result is a rare pictorial biograph that shuttles between serious analysis and pure nonsense...
Truffaut was the director whom Producer Stanley Jaffe first hired for Kramer. When scheduling conflicts developed, Jaffe turned to Benton. Though he has directed only two previous movies, Bad Company (an antic western with Jeff Bridges) and The Late Show (an eccentric detective story with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin), Benton's career stretches back over a decade. With his longtime writing partner, David Newman, he co-authored the most influential film script of the '60s, Bonnie and Clyde, which, like Kramer, leavened conflict with smart wit. He and Newman also collaborated on such diverse '70s movies...
Once the characters have been established, the screenwriters ease up. Alex falls in love with his married teacher-a closet Americophile amusingly played by Marie-France Pisier- only to become the butt of silly sex gags. Laura veers into a nervous breakdown that gratuitously breaks the movie's antic mood. Joel's romance with a snippy French girl (Val erie Quennessen) is a hotbed of cliches; it moves us only because Chapin's likable innocence contrasts so well with Quennessen's robust, Moreau-like sexuality...
...night you find them, on museum steps, in parks and markets, along waterfronts and under arcades. The groups have antic names like the Tarmac Trio, Three-Part Invention and Dynamic Logs. Mimes, jugglers and fire-eaters often join in the act. Not far behind them come the hot-dog vendors and balloon men. The minstrels provide the nation's most colorful, if casual, summer musical diversions...