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WRITER MICHAEL HERR finished up his psychedelic memoir of the Vietnam War, Dispatches, with an odd chant: "Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there." He was wrong. If it was anything like what is depicted in Oliver Stone's Platoon, we had no idea...
...title). Igor Stravinsky, Friedrich relates, tried to write movie music but never succeeded. When Producer Irving Thalberg offered $25,000 for a score for The Good Earth, the distinguished and threadbare atonalist Arnold Schoenberg demanded $50,000 and the right to direct the actors, who, he felt, should chant their lines...
...early going Saturday, just about the only suspense concerned the fate of Kyle Disdain's Secret Santa, who (honest to God) passed out instructions to the 600 spectators present to stand in unison at the 18:00 mark of the first half and chant...
...began to chant, and to sway back and forth. "Smash ROTC, No Expansion: Smash ROTC. No Expansion." The noise on the steps increased. Suddenly it swelled and I saw a surging tidal wave of baby blue helmets, and baby-blue jackets criss-crossed wildly by thick brown clubs. The cops were rushing into the landing way behind the steps, smashing their clubs down on the kids who were waiting helpless. They weren't looking where they were hitting, just holding their clubs up and bringing them down as quickly and in as many directions as they could. I heard moans...
Down By Law is a collage of the bizarre tics of urban life, where the chant "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream" can become a cry of rebellion, and a rabbit-on-a-stick a conciliatory gift. But all this calculated oddness aside, how can you not love a director who puts someone named "Rockets Redglare" in the cast...