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...This blend of The Great Escape (with Sylvester Stallone in Steve McQueen's old role as the prisoner obsessed with getting out) and Rocky (with the whole team playing Stallone's old role) has but one aim: to convert a movie audience-typically composed of individuals lost in private fantasies-into a sports crowd, in which singular preoccupations are submerged in communal joy as the home team is cheered on to a transcendence everyone shares. With Pelé doing wondrous tricks on field, and Bill Conti's huge score blasting away underneath John Huston's superb...
...books, bullshit, and about the days when simply getting out of bed is hardly worth it. They also know the same things we do about diversion--that in the world, unlike movies, beginnings, middles, and ends just don't happen with any sort of regularity. Things just sort of blend in to each other, and it's hard to tell the difference...
...real cool climax to the Kool Jazz Festival at New York's Lincoln Center when none other than the reclusive Miles Davis horned in. Davis, 55, one of the all time great trumpeters, emerged from a five-year hibernation to blow a blend of rock and jazz, captivating an S.R.O. crowd that had paid $25 for orchestra seats. Some things never change. Davis was typically late, so the organizers told his fans to get a drink while they waited. No sooner were the customers out of the building than Davis bopped onstage and started to play, triggering a stampede...
...opera, Juno and Avos, by Alexei Rybnikov, a popular composer of movie scores. In addition to guitars, violins, cellos, drum and a chorus of 16, Rybnikov called for electronic instruments-including a Multimoog synthesizer and a Roland paraphonic-rarely used before in the U.S.S.R. The opera was a bold blend of hard-rock rhythms, shimmering folk melodies and traditional Russian Orthodox Church chants...
...Kermit's early promise: "Boy, I wish I were you people seeing this picture for the first time." Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo and the rest are more at home subverting the rigid formulas of TV. But as the Divine Miss P says here, "Not to sweat." The Muppets blend in seamlessly with real-life locations, and the sow's dear herself stars in an elaborately silly underwater ballet that should leave Esther Williams wrinkled with envy...