Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE SONGS seem to go on forever, mostly because they do go on forever--songs on the first side average close to five minutes. Some, like "Rock Lobster," have a good hook, but a good hook can't sustain a seven-minute song. Some are simply horrible, forced screaming and banal lyrics and a fascination with the specious. Consider this, from "Dance This Mess Around...
Following tradition, George Rose plays both the father of the three children Peter spirits away and the comical Captain Hook, the archvillain of Neverland and "the swiniest swine in the world." But Rose breaks with tradition by being good in half his assignment and not quite so good in the other: he is a fine father but a wayward villain. He has apparently sought to create the same broad, almost campy mannerisms Cyril Ritchard had in the original version, but, perhaps through bad direction, he has overshot his mark. As a result, his Cap tain Hook is almost effeminate, modeled...
Elliott's rebellion usually stops at smart wisecracks, for he is held to both the pain and the surrounding childishness by a hidden hook-that pure and purifying joy he feels when displaying his skills on the field. He needs that high as surely as a performer in the more elevated arts needs it, and North Dallas Forty is shrewd to make this often neglected observation about athletes. Moreover, Nolte is very appealing as a man inescapably infected by the crudity of his team's raucous (and vividly rendered) behavior at work and play; he struggles to give...
...suits-a situation of which the test subject is well aware. "My image is very vague," Parker admits. "That makes it difficult for audiences to fully latch onto me and critics to know where to put me. But if you're still struggling, I've got a hook for you: call me 'atomic R & B or plutonium...
...only well-staged sequence is the fight, which is sufficiently suspenseful and lifelike to save the movie from box office disaster. With the addition of Dolby Stereo this time around, every left hook sounds like a rocket taking off in Star Wars. Otherwise, the direction is crude...