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With the spectators behind us, Walker skirts a dozen disabled vehicles before hitting a rugged series of parallel flash-flood ravines. Beyond the windshield, the horizon pitches erratically. Suddenly a blue two-seater racer materializes inside the amber cloud of dust enveloping us. Like a mechanical mantis, it springs from gully to boulder until Evans grows impatient and swerves to bump it aside. Evans laughs: "From here on out I'm running my own race...
...Kinks will be appearing tonight at the Orpheum where they will perform the uncut version of their latest rock operetta, Schoolboys In Disgrace, or The Making of a Despot a la Gilbert and Sullivan. This is a marvelous opportunity to trace the psychological components which led directly to Mr. Flash's demise and at the same time enjoy one of the finest rock/theater troupes in the business...
...makeup and costuming, she fits comfortably into the '30s atmosphere, capturing well the archness of the classic tease. Miss Lonelyhearts' newsroom colleagues also do a more than adequate job. Derek Pajaczkowski as Ned Gates, "The failure incarnate," swings adroitly between hope and bitterness, and Brian Foley as "Flash" Goldsmith excels at wry faces. Less convincing is Brooke Davida Waxburg's Mrs. Shrike, more fluttery than seductive, while Holly Blatman as Betty--"the typical American girl, well-scrubbed and soft as steel"--labors courageously with the worst lines in the script...
Maybe with Springsteen, a new generation of rock and unselfish rock musicians will emerge. Perhaps they will be musicians who want to give audiences good music with emotion and skill, not flash and trash...
...will admit that upon his first entrance, Stulberg's brown-turtlenecked attire impressed me as representative of a healthy, interesting attitude toward his music. "At last," I thought, "I can enjoy a concert which is not overpowered by the conductor's flash of tuxedo and lace." Little did I know how wrong...