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...sophomore-laden defense corps will be hard-pressed to make up for the graduation loss of All-American Charley Kittridge. As will be the strategy at the attack, four defensemen--Al Senior, Tom Scott, Mike Belmont, and Jeff Flanders--will rotate between the three positions...
...still dominated by white performers like Merle Haggard and Tanya Tucker, who wear their lower-class origins like a spangled suit. But recent years have witnessed the success of equally authentic artists who know the bottom from a different angle. Few white stars rival the popularity or talent of Charley Pride, a black Alabamian, or Jonny Rodriguez, a Texas Chicano, and few have done more to revitalize genuine country music while incorporating some of the more adaptable elements of pop music--strings, pianos, and complex vocal accompaniments. Such artists have strengthened country music while enriching it with a new diversity...
...Charley is one of those torpid hybrids, cutesie Broadway vulgarity grafted onto the bones of history. Charley (Joel Grey), later to become Charles VII, is presented as an adolescent playboy too hot for the flesh ("I'm something else/ Unlocking chastity belts") to pursue the crown. Actually, Grey with his wistful, tot-like air acts as if he would be happier in a sandbox than a boudoir...
Joan (Ann Reinking) comes on like a female Vince Lombardi who feels she can psych Charley into a zest for winning. She sings pep talks at him like To Make the Boy a Man and I Am Going to Love (the Man You're Going to Be). But somehow he never seems to become quite the man that she is. She dominates the action, partly because playgoers cannot really forget Shaw's Saint Joan, though nothing, unfortunately, has been borrowed from G.B.S...
Subliminally, it all reminds one of those '30s and '40s movies in which Hollywood tried to convey its impression of what a Broadway musical was like. Sadly, Goodtime Charley is not what a good Broadway musical is now like. ∙T.E.K...