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DIED. GENE ALLISON, 69, passionate singer of the gospel-inspired 1957 rhythm-and-blues ballad You Can Make It if You Try, which set the tone for '60s soul music and was recorded by the Rolling Stones on their '64 debut album; of kidney and liver failure; in Nashville, Tenn...
...ambience to achieve a more engaging result, and, along with “New Toys,” has real FM radio appeal. The album’s worst moments occur when the genre-synthesis feels most contrived. “Into My Arms” is a static ballad that unnaturally shifts to a psycho chemical groove, and the ten-minute “Written Apology” makes electronic clutter of a promising rock song...
...call this "the kind of movie that begs for a restored and expanded release on DVD." I'd also ask for a CD of the score, with Seuss lyrics and music by Frederick Hollander, the cut-rate Kurt Weill who wrote most of Marlene Dietrich's most famous ballads. Most of the tunes are bright and cynical in the Berliner fashion: the perky "Get-Together Weather"; a mock school song for Terwilliker Academy; an elevator song as a guard takes the prisoners to the dungeon and itemizes the evils, floor by descending floor, like a department-store employee. There...
...stage, it was calcified in the made-in-Israel film version by Norman Jewison - who, if you're wondering, is not Jewish. Blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus (Ted Neely) faces off against a black Judas (Carl Anderson). The show had two hit songs, the anthem "Superstar" and the ballad "I Don't Know How to Love Him," but its theatricality got lost out there in the desert...
...Mark Romanek?s powerful visualizing of this Trent Reznor ballad accrued more poignancy when the singer died at 71 last September. Less than four minutes long, it?s a condensed photo-autobiography of Cash?s half century in public life. A DVD of this haunting, heartbreaking video is included in Cash?s CD, ?American IV: The Man Comes Around...