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...story, penned by free-lance writer Gino Del Guercio, was based on a survey in which Boston physicians were asked to name the five best local clinicians in their specialty. The three doctors most often cited in each of fifteen categories were listed in the article, which was entitled "The Doctors Doctors...
American Context. One of the first to detect the trend to conservatism was James William Guercio, 29, a former Mothers of Invention guitarist turned millionaire moviemaker (Electra Glide in Blue). He manages Chicago and occasionally sits in on bass with the Beach Boys. Guercio brought the groups together. Garbed in a baggy football jersey bearing his last name and the numeral 1 and sitting in the living room of his $30,000 mobile home, Guercio tries to explain it all: "The American experience is found in Southern California and the streets of Chicago. These bands sing about youth, love...
Everything about this movie seems carefully calculated for effect. Even the director. The ubiquitous advertisements for Electro Glide in Blue feature the 27-year-old James William Guercio in aviator shades and high-lace boots, looking like Bogdanovich from the neck up and DeMille from the knees down. It would not matter, of course, what the ads or the director looked like if the movie deserved either of the adjectives often associated with first features -"interesting" or "promising." In its slick pomposity, though, the publicity campaign has neatly captured the essence of the film...
...Guercio, who is also a record producer (Chicago; the third Blood, Sweat and Tears album), plunders other movies for ideas the way he might round up a group for a recording session. "I laid out the movie like an album," he tells interviewers. "Fast scene, slow scene, funny scene." What results is an eclectic, impersonal exercise, a market research report on fads, trends, styles...
...majesty have graced many a John Ford film. The camera tracks slowly back along the white divider line of the highway for minute upon minute, while a rock group intones a suitable overorchestrated threnody. Here and throughout, Conrad Hall's photography is resourceful but a little fancy. Like Guercio, he seems more concerned with embellishing a scene than getting at its essence...