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...contrast, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway takes place in hot, muggy Miami. The old gentlemen here are Richard Harris as Frank, a sometime seafarer who once brawled with Papa, and Robert Duvall as Walt, a fastidious Cuban barber, now retired. Harris has fun overacting, Duvall has fun underacting, but nobody has any fun with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written...
...Gentlemen centers on two facets of masculinity, anger and libido. The CD jacket photos show a little boy staring into space from the edge of a bed, as a little girl watches him from the other side of the bed, a classic morning-after position. Song after song on this album projects this mood of somber reflection mixed with bitterness, as lead singer/ songwriter Greg Dulli sings to a woman, pleading, "Hear me now and don't forget/I'm not the man/My actions would suggest/ A little boy, I'm tied to you I fell apart/That's what I always...
What keeps Gentlemen from being simply a gloomy, standard rock album is the music under the vocals. The band's basic sound is a grunge mix of guitars, and flat, heavy drums, often with layers of distortion hovering in the background for good measure. Perhaps recording in Memphis influenced the Whigs' guitar work, which tends towards lazy, slightly distorted lines. Much of the album sounds like a grunge version of the Australian band The Church, with clean, inventive basslines and clipped single- or double-note guitar riffs, leading into fuzz guitar noodles. Several tracks include piano comping figures, while...
Ladies and gentlemen, Harry's Harbour is proud to present, under the Big Top tonight, Human Oddities," Tom Waits shouts at the beginning of The Black Rider. "Under the Big Top tonight, never before seen, and if you have a heart condition, please be warned...
...national survey, Time was ranked fourth and Vogue fifth. But Newsweek only came in sixth nationwide, beating out Gentlemen's Quarterly, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated and Mademoiselle to round...