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...yank-'em-off-if-they-bomb lunacy of the TV show to the coherent narration of the film is not a complete success. Muppet magic remains a bewildering succession of wonderful bits, and perhaps the movie's best occurs when Rowlf the Dog, who is a barroom pianist, commiserates with Kermit, who has just been deserted by Miss Piggy. The two sing a nice, rueful song about women-the can't-live-with-them, can't-live-without-them kind of thing. When Kermit slopes off into the night. Rowlf philosophizes: "It's not often...
...worked out a way to do so and still turn out something that can be called a song. On "All Through the Night," he both sings the words of the song to one of his repetitive tunes, and jabbers away in the background through the noise of a barroom conversations. With the sonic breadth of the binaural technique, the track captures what you would like to think it would be like to see Reed live at a small club...
Every Which Way goes in every which direction to no particular avail. It is nearly impossible to sit through. Chase scenes, barroom brawls and barehanded boxing matches follow in dizzying succession, but the movie rarely lurches forward. Director James Fargo (Caravans) seems to delight in disorienting the audience: it is a major chore to figure out who is punching whom, not to mention why. For punctuation, there are running gags. Ruth Gordon pops up, without warning or justification, to do her foul-mouthed-old-lady routine; the Gray Panthers would be well advised to have an injunction slapped...
...story several times, and when the case went to trial last month, he said he could not remember who had hit him. Newton was acquitted of assault, convicted only of the relatively minor gun charge for which he was sentenced last week. Newton was also involved in a barroom shooting in Santa Cruz last May, but charges against him were dropped. As for the killing of Kathleen Smith, Newton says: " don't know anything about it. I had heard I was going...
...pieces come off a bit better, especially so in the case of a tumultuous fight scene that parallels the climax of Rocky. But it is really around its fringes that Paradise Alley becomes interesting. Kevin Conway, as a James Cagney-inspired hood, brings savage, roughhouse wit to some incidental barroom scenes. In the expendable role of a has-been black wrestler, Frank McRae is a knockout. Though playing a slow-witted loser without money or friends, this actor retains a delicate sense of dignity. His two brief scenes carry more emotional weight than all the rest of Paradise Alley...