Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blow Your Cool...
...HOODOO GURUS FINALLY TAKE their tongues out of their cheeks on Blow Your Cool. It's not that Australia's wryest band is selling out now that the Gurus are achieving major-label success. If anything, the band seems angrier than ever before...
Nevertheless, the Hoodoo Gurus still blow most other pop groups out of the water. As diminished as their anarchic tendencies may be on Blow Your Cool, their playing is still more intense than that of any synth band covering similar pop territory. It just seems that the Hoodoo Gurus aren't having as much fun as they used...
...this snarled web of deception unwinds throughout the course of the movie, lots of exciting stuff happens. Buildings blow up--usually in slow motion. Guys punch each other out, with blows that make that great ping-pong-paddle-on-naugahyde noise. Lots of low-life Texans, criminals, Mexicans and innocent bystanders get shot. Half the time characters fire upon people they've already killed just to make sure the corpses don't spring to life in Day Of The Dead-fashion. And gradually, the audience gets the point of this film and begins to laugh out loud...
...never get enough laughter and applause. As she rushes offstage in the first act, Kaye remarks, "It's a very user-unfriendly house." Gorshin, who is perennially down, declares, "It's just one of those nights when nothing goes right. So I guess I'll go home and blow my brains out." The audience, of course, thinks everything is going fine, and at the curtain it rewards the cast with warm approval...