Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antics are fun to watch for a while, but, for all the touching moment and broad dramatic sweeps, the filmmaker's attitude seems to be that they remain antics, and an unconvincing, heavily ironic ending doesn't help. Although rolling R's and pronouncing a key word "shate" certainly jazz things up, boldness and brashness do not a drama make...
HARRY CONNICK JR., who turns up on screen in Independence Day as a drawling, alien-hunting fighter pilot, also has a new album, Star Turtle, which just happens to have an extraterrestrial theme. The jazz-funk record describes a cosmic terrapin's landing in New Orleans and his evening of club crawling with local lounge lizards. But those looking for a link between movie and album are lost in space, Connick says. "The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff." The seeming coincidence can be chalked up to that secret something known as cross-promotion...
Although I enjoyed some aspects of my internship, which allowed me to meet amazing jazz players at the airport (with the big sign I made with red magic marker) and participate in seminars on how to use art to teach, I guess it wasn't a good sign that I had to draw a picture of a window by my desk to imagine the outside world. Palm trees, turquoise water, white sand, sunset--I liked my picture...
This surreally cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
Outside the city's dozens of nightclubs and honky-tonks, violence and corruption ruled the streets. Inside, in the back rooms, there was illicit gambling and who knew what else. But up on the bandstands, the jazz musicians of Kansas City swung through it all. Absorbed, imperturbable, they played within a sort of bubble of purity: theirs were the only disinterested passions in town. Or so it seems in Robert Altman's new film, Kansas City, set in the 1930s heyday of "Boss" Tom Pendergast, when an extraordinary concentration of jazz talent flourished in the city (and a wide-eyed...