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...infinitely more interesting when Arnold enters the scene. Before Arnold, Connie encounters all kinds of sleazes, but he's both her first, and her first psychotic. And as you watch Arnold smooth-talk the diffident Connie into submission, he seems like a sinister cross between Jack the Ripper and Huey Long...
Something similar occurs in Huey Long, Ken Burns' rather too conventional documentary about the rise and demise of our most successful demagogue. The antique footage of Long on the campaign trail, directing his mating cries at the bedazzled Louisiana electorate, retains its hypnotic power more than a half-century later; he had the great seducer's capacity to enlist his victims' complicity in his lies. The testimony Burns has elicited from the plain people who elected Long Governor and Senator, and were preparing to back his presidential campaign when he was assassinated, makes it clear they have never known...
...does so uncomfortably. For the issue raised but not really addressed by both these films is altogether too complicated to be resolved by civics lessons. There are people like the historical Huey and the fictional Pete who wear their amorality glamorously, who have the ability to move the practice of politics out of smoke-filled rooms and into the chambers of the yearning human heart. Conventional political morality, to which both these films retreat in good-hearted confusion, is inadequate to deal with such creatures. Art conceivably is. But today, media far more devious than a radio mike await...
...Sprout. Contrary to popular belief, this group, headed by the brothers McAloon, did not pick up their moniker from a vegetarian dish at a SoHo restaurant--but they might as well have. Soft-pop is a term too readily used by critics: lately, it serves to describe everyone from Huey Lewis to X. Instead, let's call this musical melange soft-porn: it is that foul...
...their way of giving to charity." The We Are the World album debuted this week at No. 9 on Billboard's chart. It contains nine previously unreleased tracks by participating artists, including some particularly nifty contributions from Bruce Springsteen (a searing version of Jimmy Cliff's Trapped), Huey Lewis and the News and Tina Turner. Prince even sent over a tune, 4 the Tears in Your Eyes, which is a standout...