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...compounded confusion, relieved only by one novel touch. This must be the first train movie in which the hero keeps getting thrown off the train. It is a nice gag, which has the added advantage of introducing Richard Pryor. He appears as a thief, with the unlikely name of Grover Muldoon, who helps the long-suffering George on the train and off again a couple of times. What furtive sprightliness Silver Streak manages to work up is attributable mostly to Pryor, sly-eyed and fast-mouthed, an unbeatable antic spirit...
Even number five is the Sunday matinee with Donald Byrd and his Blackbyrds, Grover Washington and Webster Lewis. This youth movement should be taken with a skeptical glance. Byrd simply is not that good a trumpeter; Washington does not play that good a sax. Lewis is solid...
Next Thursday moving in to Nickerson Field at Boston University are Grover Washington Jr., George Benson and Larry Coryell. Benson and Coryell will provide lots of good guitar music. Washington is a pretty good saxophone player to boot...
Letch for Sopranos. Buffalo Bill is a foolish figure. Called upon to make speeches when, for example, Sitting Bull joins his troupe or President Grover Cleveland visits it, he turns out to be the master of the grandiloquent opening and the bumbling close ("May the sun never set on this great land, unless it comes up again next morning"). He has a letch for operatic sopranos and a strange hatred of birds, and he is comically unsteady on his snow white charger-especially when he tries to make it rear in the grand manner. One suspects Altman has based...
Steven A. Ballmer, Paul L. Bixby, Stephen J. Chapman, Francis J. Connolly, Jefferson Flanders, Robert B. James, Jr., Sharon E. Jones, Grover G. Norquist, William L. Pollak, Mark D. Stegall