Word: dildo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STEELY DAN takes its name from the painting of a large dildo. Maybe group co-founders Walter Becker and Donald Fagen meant it as self-denunciation. Maybe they meant to give a unique image to the unique sound of pop with a rock/reggae edge. In either case Steely Dan today continues as the most consistent and developing band around. It also represents exactly what's wrong with American pop music...
...needs more bands that kick down our doors and shatter our complacency. Give us the unrestrained Sex Pistols doing "Johnny B. Goode," forgetting the lyrics. Or Dylan or Springsteen, moving toward some poetic vision, trying to find a way to reaffirm life in the face of death. Leave the dildo to Steely Dan, to those who can't enjoy real...
...absolute expert." Some moviegoers will see the film as life made into art, the rarefied atmosphere of Manhattan high life bottled, aged and served with a chill. Others will wonder if the movie isn't an elaborate mechanism of self-abuse, a Rube Goldberg dildo, a film about a dead end that is a dead end for this prolific, personal film maker. Stardust Memories has much to please the eye and ear. Cinematographer Gordon Willis and Production Designer Mel Bourne have created an austere, bleached environment that gives Allen's film a look as distinctive as a Bergman...