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What everyone obviously hoped for was a film that would do for country-and-western music what Saturday Night Fever did for the disco craze-make a lively, gritty comment on it and earn big bucks too. Like Fever, Urban Cowboy is based on a magazine article (by Co-Scenarist Aaron Latham). The same star, John Travolta, has been recruited to play the lead...
...that this is a canonical work, something that only those who find Stanley Kubrick to be one of the world's great living film artists will respond to. By taking a book by an author who is at the center of the craze for the supernatural, and turning it into a refusal of and subtle comment on that loopy cultural phenomenon, Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level...
Such a nice boy he was in Breaking Away, even if he did have that curious craze about speaking Italian and that frenetic fancy for bicycling down the highway behind a truckload of Cinzano. That's nothing compared with Actor Dennis Christopher's latest role. In Fade to Black, Christopher is a psychotic who works in a Hollywood film warehouse and gets his jollies by disguising himself as famous movie bad guys and bumping people off. While emulating Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death, he pushes an aunt down a flight of stairs. As James Cagney in White...
...1920s, '30s and '40s, and later became music director for Playwright Noel Coward, Mantovani was little known outside of Britain until 1951, when he created his silken "shimmering strings" effects and recorded the waltz Charmaine. The recording, monomaniacally promoted by a Cleveland disc jockey, triggered a Mantovani craze that turned his American concerts into sellout affairs and seven albums into gold (more than half a million of each were sold). Said the purveyor of Greensleeves, Misty and Moulin Rouge: "Perhaps 25% of the people like the classics, and about 25% like the Beatles. I aim to please...
Sugarplums, humbug! After covering the pre-Christmas offerings at some of the world's finest auction houses for this week's cover story on the "collectibles" craze, several TIME collectors had visions of something more elaborate dancing in their heads. Their Christmas lists follow...