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...sorts of British movie - the kind that wins awards, and the kind that makes money. Lynne Ramsay has been known for writing and directing the first kind since 1995, when Small Deaths, a short she made in film school, won the Prix du Jury at Cannes. Her third short, Gasman, took the big prize at Cannes too and the 32-year-old Scot's first full-length film, Ratcatcher, became an art-house hit. But with her latest effort, a psycho road movie called Morvern Callar, Ramsay may finally be positioned for box-office success. Her movie has a riveting...
...which has been touring the country (and having its songs recorded) for a couple of years. But head of the class among the new arrivals is The Life, a dark, brashly entertaining musical about the seedy denizens of Times Square circa 1980, from composer Cy Coleman and lyricist Ira Gasman. It is, moreover, one new musical that really shows the impact of Rent. The Life has had its sights set on Broadway for years, but might never have arrived if Rent had not made gritty New York street life safe for middlebrow theatergoers...
...less-is-more staging. The show starts out in high gear with an infectiously cynical ode to self-interest (Use What You Got), sung by hustler-narrator Jojo (the excellent Sam Harris), and keeps topping itself. Lillias White, as an over-the-hill hooker, brings vivacity and soul to Gasman's clever lyrics ("I'm getting too old/ For the oldest profession"), and the driving, up-tempo number Why Don't They Leave Us Alone turns the hookers and pimps into the most inspired chorus line in town. The Life may, in truth, be just another kind of Broadway hustle...
...satirical lyrics in a pair of revues, At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat. They toured throughout the '60s, with Flanders providing dry commentary and lead vocals and Swann at the keyboard, adding his thin but enthusiastic tenor to such whimsy as The Gasman Cometh, Song of Reproduction (a jab at stereo enthusiasts) and The Hippopotamus Song, an ode to "mud, mud, glorious mud" that somehow became a plea for international peace, complete with a verse in Russian delivered by Swann...
...Higher price ceilings for domestic oil and natural gas will not be enough inducement for producers who want the Government to end price controls altogether. Said Dallas Gasman D.K. Davis: "There are some incentives but not enough for what drilling people would like?a full-out drilling boom." In addition, adds Davis, producers argue that even a price of $1.75 per 1,000 cu. ft. for natural gas "is not going to have much impact. It won't get producers out drilling deep wells." Short of decontrol, the producers want a price...