Word: kennings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attempts to use real contemporary music in musicals-like Richard Lester's two Beatles movies or Ken Russell's Tommy-have been random. A Chorus Line, hottest ticket on Broadway and destined to be filmed, is just a slick version of 1930s tears-and-tinsel show biz sagas around which production numbers were draped like rented furs. The only enterprising recent musicals have been the work of Bob Fosse; the movie Cabaret and, on Broadway, Chicago abound in the same spunk and brash vi tality eulogized in That's Entertainment. Fosse is a brilliantly low-down spirit...
...century of White House life expressed as a play within a play. Last week the survivors of the disaster were wondering what went right. Given the magic of the names involved, Coca-Cola and most of the 1600 actors bought the project on blind faith. Versatile Lead Ken Howard, who played all 13 Presidents, took the job without having seen a line of Lerner's book. British Actress Patricia Routledge, who played all the First Ladies, had heard only one song and Director Frank Corsaro (A Hatful of Rain, The Night of the Iguana) started rehearsals without even...
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Directed and Written by KEN RUSSELL...
...this time. Ken Russell should have got sick of being told he has gone too far. But on he goes, each new movie an exercise in further excess. Mahler -which appeared in England two years ago but is only now being released in the U.S.-is a discombobulated. flatulent film that bears only a glancing resemblance to the life of the post-Romantic composer...