Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, the record jacket gives the impression that its contents are very sophisticated. Randy Newman is peering into the camera, from behind sunglasses, on a bridge over some (presumably) Los Angeles freeway. He looks like an artist, with his hair mussed up and his well-worn clothing. So far, so good. But it's that back of the jacket that's the real killer--it contains the words to all the songs on the record within. The words of one verse...
...last decade of his life, Paul Cézanne experienced, perhaps more fully than any great artist since Michelangelo, the anxiety of Tantalus. The more he painted, the more he saw. The more he saw, the more manifold and unattainable truth became. "I must tell you," Cézanne wrote to his son six weeks before his death in the fall of 1906, "that as a painter I am becoming more clear-sighted before nature, but with me the realization of my sensations is always painful. I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses...
Since Waugh's own death, his reputation has been skillfully embalmed by the Joyboys of journalism and lit-crit. More precisely, there are two reputations: the artist and the man. Waugh the writer needs little touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled...
Loosely entwined with this plot is the story of the complex's maintenance men, all frustrated losers living in their own imaginations. Ed Redlich plays Tobie, an insecure middle-aged man constantly bickering with Dog, Ron Shmyr, a domineering but pathetically inadequate bullshit artist. The goodnatured foreman, Ed, played by Jeff Horwitz, serves as the mediator, reassuring Redlich and pacifying Shmyr, who feels secure with his electrical degree "from the back of a book of matches...
...PARADE" IS A STORY that grows on you: the story of every artist trying to be an artist. Daltrey plays the subdued observer watching the star on the stage, telling us he "never made the headlines, but I was in that scene." We know Roger has even made the cover of the Rolling Stone, but he reveals a perspective of himself and of his work that few stars have; and so Roger Daltrey remains a star...