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...plan for a cover story on Singer-Guitarist James Taylor and his talented family got under way last month when TIME'S Music Critic William Bender attended a brilliant performance by the young musician at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Later that evening, Bender and Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov talked with Taylor for two hours at an East Side apartment. "James is not given to glibness," says Bender. "As in his songs, he doesn't say anything he doesn't know to be true. He's a man very sure of his own mind...
...stale drunkenness. And with Cassavetes' improvisational style the actors can give themselves wholeheartedly to this scene of frustration yielding to indulgence. For the first hour jokes are funny, the pace of the action is tolerably fast, and Cassavetes is capturing something of the desperate enthusiasm of a middle-aged bender...
...Here was that missing link." After the 1929 crash, Wilson tried to forget his losses with numbing doses of bathtub gin and bootleg whisky. His wife went to work to support him. and, as Wilson recalled, his mental disintegration "proceeded rapidly and implacably." Injured after an Armistice Day bender in 1934, he tried to heed the inspirational teachings of the First Century Christian Fellowship (precursor of Moral Re-Armament), but soon went on a three-day drunk that left him shattered...
There is no plot to Husbands, just a premise. Archie (Peter Falk), Harry (Ben Gazzara) and Gus (Cassavetes himself) are three reluctantly middle-aging men who go off on a bender after the death of a friend. For two days they stay away from home, drinking, horsing around, trying to forget. But the carousing only reinforces their sense of loss and their feelings of entrapment. In a final act of rebellion, they fly off to London, do some gambling, pick up some girls and discover that instead of escaping, they have only come up against another boundary...
...found in their work. But they have welded these borrowings into a considerable work that is their own. Tommy (TIME, June 22) was the first, flawed suggestion that rock could deal with a major subject on a broad symphonic or operatic scale. Superstar offers the first real proof. William Bender...