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...narrator, a self-contained middle-aged law professor at Harvard, introduces himself in the opening paragraph with passive-voiced modesty: "Relationships did not stick to me." The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect, whom Max remembers as the campus Lothario; and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protege...
Central Connecticut (80): Linda Lee 2-0--4; Michelle Grifford 4-0--8; Angie Suffridge 4-4--13; Charlene Shephard 5-3--13; Michelle Crimmins 10-2--22; Sunny Hill 1-0--2; Ruthie Smith 3-0--6; Denise Como 4-0--8; Keisha Carmichael...
...specifically for tourists -- a spectacle considerably more lavish than the parades of the old-line krewes. The king of the parade each year was not some anonymous banker, secure in the knowledge that anyone who counts knows who's behind the mask, but somebody like Jackie Gleason or Perry Como or Ed McMahon. Eventually, there was a second Bacchus-like krewe named Endymion. Its king last year was Spuds MacKenzie...
...hollow-eyed menace) on the loose, and only a chatty tart (Liza Minnelli) to lead Church to the killer. While Minnelli wears earrings the size of headlights and puts way too much spin on every line of dialogue, Reynolds relaxes into his role. He has become the Perry Como of action-movie stars, never wasting a motion or spending emotion. As written by Dennis Shryack and Michael Blodgett and directed by Jerry London, Rent-a-Cop rarely rouses itself beyond cliche; it looks content to mark time till it hits the less demanding venue of pay cable. This...
...magic of this LP is that even this melodramatic treatment works in the context of the album's Christmas spirit and sense of current pop history. Just as Perry Como's Christmas LPs please our parents, and Phil Spector and Motown Christmas records serve the baby boomers, A Very Special Christmas is meant for us, capturing the true pop sounds and commercial spirit of a today--for a good cause...