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...mighty are fallen. In 1967, Boston Joey gave a pool exhibition in the Harvard Freshman Union for more than 100 Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates...
...best lyric writers this country has ever known. I find him sloppy all the time. His lyrics don't sit on the music properly. When he is just futzing around with words, he doesn't even do it neatly. He misaccents words. One example is in Pal Joey, the line in Take Him: "I know a movie executive/ Who's twice as bright." It's a good joke, but you don't misaccent a word if you want to write a good lyric. Technically it's deficient and to my ear unprofessional...
...Shebib's characters do not have the depth to recognize a need for values alternative to the status quo. Only once does Peter drunkenly mumble something about wanting to work with his hands to create something. For the most part, Peter and Joey are content to make the most of a bad job. And Shebib is content to keep his commentary on the surface of a story that doesn't go anywhere...
...DeSica in its attempts to communicate the feeling of a life-style by approaching its subject in its own terms, on its own grounds, avoiding the poetic affects a detached narrative viewpoint allows. It is the characters', not the director's moods we see being indulged. But Peter and Joey are simply not complex enough to carry a feature-length film...
...SHOULD, I suppose, be impressed by Goin' Down the Road as a first film. It is extra-ordinarily well-acted by Doug (Peter) McGrath and Paul (Joey) Bradley, carefully photographed and edited-technically proficient. But its director displays an extremely limited intelligence, an interest in people on the most superficial level. He tries to consider their emotional make-up divorced from their serious social inter-actions, and ends up with roadhouse cliche...