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...album's only ballad, is slightly adventurous for its genre. It's "All Cried Out" done as a church spiritual, with the lovelorn sentiment of last year replaced by a new moral self-confidence and self-righteousness. You can imagine the chorus swaying back and forth during this duet with Full Force's Paul Anthony and Bow-Legged...
Other series are less distinguishable from routine network fare. Duet, a half-hour romantic comedy, uses familiar sitcom contrivances to chronicle the relationship between a detective-story writer and a caterer. And Cannell's 21 Jump Street will spend an hour each week following the exploits of a group of undercover cops on the high school beat. Fox officials admit that much of this is hardly breakthrough material. "Have we reconceived the mousetrap? Do we feel any necessity to do so? No," says Diller. "But we will by definition take more risks...
...while the manager rushes about waving correction slips and time cards. Then we're in the service area, cranking out the final tasks. Both choosing the same moment to drag out an ice cream tub, we collide. Eyes bugging, faces centimeters apart, we break into a primal scream duet. Nancy joins us, and we all scream again, faces flushed, drowning out the music, and then finally collapsing into exhausted laughter. Closing time...
Like Frank Doel, Stephanie Anderson in Duet for One has the plucky, soldiering-on English temperament. Beneath it, however, is a violin virtuoso's rage at being felled by multiple sclerosis. The role, played on Broadway by Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence...
...Pupil Rupert Everett rants and sniffles; Macha Meril, as the Italian maid, provides her own subtitles in moments of distress ("Aiuto! Help!"). And finally the movie exonerates all the rats in Stephanie's life. She sees them happy and united and goes off to die by her favorite tree. Duet for One died long before...