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Gaucho, its newest release, is typical Steely Dan. It sports a hit single, and Becker and Fagen once again play bass and sing, and co-write all the songs. The "finest studio musicians around," including Dire Straits' guitarist Mark Knopfler and veteran hornmen the Brecker Brothers, Tom Scott and David Sanborn again make appearances. Steely Dan isn't a band, it's a conglomerate. On one cut, sixteen musicians are listed. The result, which lacks the breadth of most big band music, sounds neither spontaneous nor energetic...
...three-year-old grandson Peter. These breaches of protocol produced some rare cracks in Her Majesty's regal facade. "I wish you would go away," she snapped at swarming newshounds. Prince Charles, too, had some unusually sharp words when he addressed a group of Fleet Street's finest. "I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy New Year," he said with a bitter grin, "and your editors a particularly nasty...
Sprinter Karen Blount ran her finest race ever, salvaging second place in the 220 with a personal best of 27:3 seconds. After the meet, a happy Blount reflected on the motivation for her performance: "We needed it, we had to have it to win, so I just went out and did it. I still can't believe I did it, but it sure feels good to win a meet like that...
Simon has written funny plays and films, and will again. Jay Sandrich directed TV's finest comedy show, Mary Tyler Moore; he may someday learn to shape character and situation to fit the big screen. Goldie Hawn will remain the put-upon pixie into her twilight years. And for Chevy Chase, as for the most miserable sinner, there is always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis...
...stuff of very funny movies but there is something very sad about First Family. After an hour and a half of inanities, you leave the theater feeling like you had been to what was billed as the greatest Washington dinner party of the year--catered by the finest restaurant, with the most interesting and "in" people in attendance--and the hostess' five-year-old son threw up on the Pakistani ambassador and the English wolfhound did likewise on the wife of the Secretary of Defense...