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HOSPITALIZED. Richard Penniman, 52, Evangelical minister who as the flashy, flamingly androgynous wailer Little Richard helped usher in the rock revolution in the '50s with such hits as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally; with a broken leg and bruised ribs, received when he lost control of a sports car and hit a telephone pole; in Los Angeles...
...really hoping to Squeeze in an upbeat spiel about this once-proud pop group's resurrection. No such luck. COSI FAN TUTTI FRUTTI has but one inspired moment--its clever corruption of the Mozart opera title (Omigod, I mentioned real music). The rest is much sound'n fury, a thickly overlaid and confusing pastiche of synthetic pop gimmicks. What's more, there are no hooks...
...from a return of the vanquished, often dressed as an avantgarde. Today spartan modernism has been surprised in its sleep by a postmodern taste for ornament and the revival of moribund styles. Partly as a result, some artists are garnishing the edge again. Trompe l'oeil frames, tutti-frutti borders and jigsaw-cut silhouettes are multiplying in galleries that not long ago featured only trim metal runners...
...that he seemed possessed of darkling forces. A chimney-high pompadour. Eye shadow, for God's sake, in 1956. Piano-jumping, speaker-climbing stunts onstage, along with dancing that was camp enough to get anyone busted in a back alley. Songs that sounded like nonsense (Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Slippin 'and Slidin ') but whose beat seemed to hint of unearthly pleasures centered somewhere between the gut and the gutter. Ooh! My soul...
...Charles White, is a BBC disc jockey who goes by the name of Dr. Rock and has the good sense to go off-mike when the major talent is in the room. In only a little more time than it might take to recite the immortal refrain from Tutti Frutti (for the record, that's "Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop/ Alop-Bam-Boom"), the reader, reeling, will have plunged through Richard's accounts of childhood pranks (he defecated in a box and presented the result, gift wrapped, to old Miz Ola down on Macon's Monroe Street...