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ON DAVE, EDMUNDS' new album, Twangin', Rockpile backs him up: Lowe on bass, Terry Williams on drums, and Billy Bremner on second guitar. It's his fourth effort with them: Lowe has two, and the group as a unit has one. Twangin' is Edmunds in peak form--crafted, yet vibrant...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Snap, Crackle Pop Rock | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

Of course, there's something strange about reading literary television criticism at all. Somehow form and function seem skewed. When you read it in the pages of the New Yorker (which for years ran a racing column that inexplicably described the decaying Aqueduct as if it were Epsom Downs), the...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Studio Monitor | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Norman Taurog, 82, director who won an Oscar for the 1931 Jackie Cooper vehicle Skippy, and also made Boys Town (1938) and a string of lighthearted comedies and musicals between the 1940s and the 1960s, including six with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and nine with Elvis Presley; in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 20, 1981 | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Or "New Lace Sleeves," about thinking the world is what they say it is in movies or in the paper, and finding out it's all a sordid, ugly sham, the way Elvis did when all those record executives refused to look beyond his slightly spastic exterior--"Good manners and...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

There's no blame here, folks, or anger. People don't really want to hurt each other, they don't know what they're doing or thinking or saying. They just imitate. The nightclub in Trust is a world where no communication is possible, nothing makes sense, nothing is real...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

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