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...fadeout can come fast enough to please the cigarette's most zealous opponents. Utah's Moss feels that the N.A.B. plan "may take too long." And he is anxious to move on to his next target: cigarette ads in printed media...
...original, Victor McLaglen played the informer as a wounded bull. Mayfield portrays him as a dray horse, faithfully clopping to the fadeout. The Informer was consistently Irish. If Up Tight's cast is Negro, the script is in straight blackface, with such lines as "Nonviolence is a self-defeating mother." Its bogus climaxes are reminiscent of the '30s' group-theater lyricism, as when Tank wails at a smeltery, "You noisy beautiful bastard, remember me?", or when he roars, "The city is killing me ... it's killing both of us." Because Up Tight was filmed...
...once made him seem like a chip off the old Chaplin, notably in a hilarious Spanish-Yiddish-English brouhaha involving his mother and eleven Mexican whiplash-injury clients. But most of the time, the movie reduces him to elephantine gestures and TV-sized jokes. As he runs into the fadeout, a passing hippie asks him where he is going. "I don't know," Sellers answers. "There must be someplace." The line sums up both this meandering movie and the flickering career of a gifted clown who has talent to burn but no taste in scripts...
...Then- fadeout. Last year sales leveled off in defiance of predictions that a majority of black-and-white owners would switch to more expensive color sets. This year color TV sales are running 30% below expectations. Beyond that, many of Cole's old customers are now supplying more of their own color tube needs...
This goes on for seven minutes and eleven seconds, making it the longest single the Beatles have ever recorded. At the end, a swatch of melody is repeated by an orchestra and chorus for nearly four minutes while the Beatles vamp and shout over it. It is a fadeout that engagingly spoofs the fadeout as a gimmick for ending pop records...