Word: frisco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FRISCO...
...Frisco Kid just misses being very good, perhaps because although Wilder is funny and endearing, we never quite believe in the character he plays. He is not really a pure Polish rabbi, he is Gene Wilder doing bits. We are asked to laugh at all too human failings, as we laugh at Tevye's in Fiddler on the Roof, but through some lapse of direction or acting, we are never really shown a man. - John Skow
...have said "Head north, young man--quickly." For to the north of L.A. lies San Francisco, a city almost universally loved in this country, even by those who have never been there. Mellow--everyone I met on the coast as I headed north told me the main thing about Frisco was how mellow it is. Maybe it's the natural environment, or the Spanish legacy, or the peculiar effect of its Gold Rush origin, or simply all those people up there who've destroyed their brain cells with acid, but the city certainly seems mellow, with a capital laid back...
Last Waltz--The Band in that fateful last performance at Frisco's Winterland, turned into an eminently enjoyable, if somewhat self-congratulatory, evening of musical entertainment. Every big name you can think of is here, but the film is really all about The Band and their feelings about giving up life on the road after 16 years. The interviews are interesting and often humorous, and most of the music is simply great. If you like anything about The Band, or even if you're just curious...
...Hibachi going, on into the third night. Some were here just because they were glad to get out of the dorm, or to miss Expos at 9 a.m. But the real heavies, who had remained since the '60s, who'd taken years off and done their time in Frisco, Miami, and Holyoke Plaza, were of a different...