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...Europe. While they all had veto power over private scenes, they rarely exercised it. but instead carried on the most intimate discussions before the camera. Even the scene in which Pat tells Bill that she wants him to move out-he had been seeing other women-is recorded on celluloid. "After some months the crew was like family," explains Pat. "I acted as if they were part of us. I forgot about the camera...
...Organ Grinder, than he is approached by an unlikely p.r. type named Ben Dinunccio (Lionel Stander) with a mysterious proposition that turns out to be a commission to ghostwrite the autobiography of Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney). Gilbert is a runt who grew into Hollywood's No. 1 celluloid hoodlum and who, boasts Dinunccio, "boffed every leading lady he ever worked with...
...actual impulse behind the Sarrisites seemed more psychological than aesthetic. Who needed to stop the world with politics or drugs when you could get off on Celluloid? A photograph of Sarris which appeared sometimes on Voice ads showed a rough looking character with a pugnacious glare, decorating a dingy sidewalk with a middle aged version of the James Dean slouch. He was the perfect role model for misfits who used suspicion of general culture to alibi for their own lack of discipline. In Confessions of a Cultist in 1970. Sarris admitted that he had inadvertently modeled a career...
...Until "Celluloid Heroes." It has none of the Davies whimsy or wit; it is the climax and statement of Everybody's in Show Biz, "I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show." Ray Davies returned to Muswell Hill, working class hero (more legitimate than Lennon could've imagined) wasting the worriless, painless celluloid life, "Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain-And celluloid heroes never really...
...CELLULOID HEROES," with "Muswell Hillbillies" and "Lola," is the core of the Kinks concert. Ray Davies realizes in the three songs who he was, what he became, and what he might have been. It colors his performance. He realizes what music made him famous, so he does it, run-through style, to make are it's as familiar as possible. Live Kinks is "Top of the Pops," "Till the End of the Day," "Well-Respected Man," and "Sunny Afternoon." Than he maked his statement...