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...Clint is a shy college-type guy; Ricky is a blustering would-be stud. Rhonda is a brainy, uptight man-hater and Cheryl a misunderstood beauty who only wants to have fun. Fill in the various permutations yourself; the play ends with everybody's personality suitably adjusted...
...BIRD. Clint Eastwood's passionate biography of jazz great Charlie Parker hits the high notes, and finds new blue ones, in the story of a genius who could resist everything but temptation...
...happens, a pressing need. Director Clint Eastwood's vision of the jazz scene of the 1950s is touched, appropriately, by the austere romanticism of '50s existentialism. It is a circle of sheltering darkness, where the time is always 'round midnight, the mood is always accepting (it's not why you play but how you play that counts), and even agents and club owners are basically benign. Trouble is always an intruder from outside -- a narc obsessed with pinning bad raps on musicians, society ladies slumming, rock 'n' roll making rude noises on the periphery -- attacking the soul when...
...Clint Eastwood' s Bird finds the right blue notes for jazzman Charlie Parker. -- Sigourney Weaver illuminates Gorillas in the Mist...
...biographical films, soon to be released, will limn the twin toxicities of heroin and pop celebrity. Bird is Clint Eastwood's meditation on the pioneering jazzman junkie Charlie Parker; Wired adapts Bob Woodward's book about the life and drug-induced death of John Belushi. Both movies fit a familiar genre: a star is born, a star falls into the black hole of self- abuse, a star dies. But a third drug-and-alcohol drama, Clean and Sober, which opened last week to generous reviews, goes for the grit without the name- dropping glamour. It has eyes...