Word: boing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bo Diddley. The giant of rock and roll is back in town. K-K-Katy...
...gained an interest in non-classical music. He improvised on the violin with records of Eastern music, mostly Ravi Shankar. Federer left B.U. in 1970 just one course short of graduation, unsure of what he would do. August saw him at Stonehenge jamming with anyone who was willing--including Bo Diddley and finally Guns & Butter...
...This first song was done by Johnny Horton; after that we got a Bo Diddley number. We're going to do the Johnny Horton song like Bo Diddley and the Bo Diddley song like Don Covay...Actually, this is just another ballad...
...Hill director Bo Widerberg commits the worst of all artistic crimes: dishonesty towards his subject. In what purports to be a dramatization of Joe Hill's history, he has invented, deleted, and rearranged the life and times of the IWW bard. Such exploitation might be forgivable in the name of dramatic license, but Widerberg turns his liberties in no particular direction. The editing (which Widerberg also did) muddies the development of theme and plot with arbitrary shifts in scene. The script (again his work) offers no possibility for growth or awareness in the characters. The film's tone is soft...
...especially successful in entertaining while filling out Widerberg's obscure motivations. Still, nothing could save this movie from the apathetic response it deserves. A film about such repression should move one to anger and tears; Joe Hill moves not at all. Hill said "Don't mourn for me," but Bo Widerberg slobbers all over his memory. It is dishonest biography and a worse film. Joe Hill...