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...movie is peppered with direct steals from famous stars, roles and songs, most of which originated in the '30s. The hunch-backed servant Igor (Marty Feldman) has the bulging eyes and eerie mischievousness of Harpo Marx, or of the Charles Adams cartoon character who later became known as Uncle Fester. He delivers one-liners like Groucho. Cloris Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity...
...20th century revival of Baroque music came about, says Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis, "for all the wrong reasons." One of the most wrong was the notion that the Baroque was a perfect antidote for the excesses of 19th century romanticism. Performers played the reborn works of the 17th and early 18th centuries in an unemotional, almost mechanical fashion. The sound seemed orderly and neatly stitched: "Sewing machine music in other words," says Kipnis. If the Baroque revival continues today with greater force than ever, the reason is that Kipnis, 44, and others like him have finally proved that the Baroque contains...
...Igor finally committed himself to the harpsichord in the late 1950s, after graduating from Harvard and taking such odd jobs as picking the Top 40 hits at a radio station. His father was puzzled: "The piano, yes. But the harpsichord? How can you make a career on an ancient relic...
This crisis, according to Bernstein, divided modern composers into two warring camps "the way a great river divides into two forks." The Viennese school, led by Arnold Schoenberg, "gave up the struggle to preserve tonality;" Igor Stravinsky and his followers represented a "last ditch stand" against "the rampages of chromaticism." Bernstein's language gives the lie to his pose of dispassionate neutrality, and for that matter his own music plainly shows both his distaste for atonality and his adoration of Stravinsky...
...level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries out in disbelief. He is quickly...