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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never get rid of them; and that in other plays they make their entrance in very wrong and improper scenes; besides the inconveniences which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them." Few listened to Addison. Rinaldo was the making of Handel and remains one of the finest of his 40 or more operas...
...screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest compliment, Hard Times is evidence that there may be larger ones...
What does the smile of the native optimist have to do with the groan from the cross? What cement will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...
...fiction that has made its way into mainstream culture would also fare poorly on film, including "classics" like Frank Herbert's Dune and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. (How would you portray "groking?" Who would accept a giant sandworm in a serious film?) Some of the finest science fiction on film was specifically written for that medium. Ironically, Ellison himself is responsible for some of the better television screenplays: "Soldier" on Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone, a chilling preview of a war-wracked future through the eyes of a genetically engineered warrior, fleeing his opponents through time...
...Beverly. I'll never forget reading Frank Kofksy's liner notes on Coltrane's Selflessness album--that's the one with the fast version of My Favorite Things on side two. Roy Haynes was substituting for Coltrane's regular man, Elvin Jones, doing what I think was the finest drum work on any of the MFT cuts that Trane recorded. But in the liner notes, usually reserved for bubbling praise, Kofsky came down hard on Haynes and said he couldn't compare with Jones. He can--he may be better...