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From Thanksgiving until the middle of January each year, the beat musicians and convenience stores in the Square are joined by four white light banners, containing a total of 4,000 bulbs and 15 dozen balsam wreaths, according to a press release...
...scene from Psycho is a grisly shudder in the collective unconscious, as bracing as Janet Leigh's famous shower and possibly even more shocking. The detective, played by Martin Balsam, is climbing the stairway of Norman Bates' creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos...
Joel's final episode features the movie "Mitchell," a truly terrible 70s action flick starring, among others, Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, Linda Evans, and Merlin Olson in an early role as an evil henchman. Unfortunately, the jokes don't entirely succeed in making this movie watchable...
Every frame of this movie contains a mixture of suspense and humor, and the wonderful final scene between Matthau and Martin Balsam is no exception...
...emphasizing the comic value of Kent and the other callers, however, director Dan Balsam loses some of the critical edge of the play. Bogosian does not seem to intend to de-emphasize the horror of this culture, and the problem with Talk Radio is its overemphasis on the comic at the expense of the work's critical purpose. The serious mood with which the show closes does not adequately redirect the focus of the audience...