Word: deviled
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...might be poor," says Oprah Winfrey, "but we ain't sellin' our soul to the devil today." The cameras are rolling as Winfrey, a TV talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished mother of eight children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here...
...duration excepting a brief solo. Forcing out the same sparse lyrics (predictably, the title) and guitar line for the five remaining minutes, this song offers few surprises. It does have some power, but it's not a ready-made warhorse like "Gimme Shelter" or "Sympathy for the Devil...
...which hasn't even been written yet. But this may be only a little comfort. Perhaps inspired by The Firm, a new movie is in the works once again featuring a young attorney in a large firm who discovers he is working for . . . Satan. The film's title is Devil's Advocate...
These days they blame the cathode-ray devil for instigating the violence that blights the American landscape, as they have before blamed it for sexual promiscuity and the perennial under-performance of American students. Television is a popular target for legislative crusaders, largely because it is a devil, which promises to be far easier to exorcise than the real ones it sometimes echoes...
...listen, the love songs sound lighter than the rest of the album, but beneath the sunny surfaces, Sweet's view of secular relationships is equally bleak. The brokenhearted narrator of Someone to Pull the Trigger implores his lover to take him back or "shoot." And on the mid-tempo Devil with the Green Eyes, Sweet laments, "You were never meant to be mine/ 'Cause I came up from a dark world/ And every love I've ever known is dead." At such moments, backed by Quine's corrosive electric guitar, Sweet takes sentiments that could have been morbid or sappy...