Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film succeeds in tracing a parallel between then and now, and thereby fails to become an acceptable work of art. At a time when hard-boiled movies are derigeur, a film on a religious theme can appear embarrassingly sentimental. Zeffirelli's has personal interpretation of the St. Francis legend does just that. And at a time when "Godspell" has recently been slapped onto the screen, and the term Jesus-freak is flung at a goodly portion of our "alienated" generation, a modern version of the same legend which stresses the similarities between past and present draws a yawn of boredom...
Soon nobody was gonging off Bird. In his 20s, he had already become a legend. He had given his name to Birdland, and along with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell had founded a whole new jazz idiom called bebop. The beginning came one night while Parker was playing Cherokee in a Manhattan chili house: he reached up and got his line by filching the top notes off the chords. By mingling spontaneous pirouettes of fanciful improvisations with a tune's melody he vastly expanded the freedom of musicians...
THURSDAY: The Haunted West. National Geographic special explores the remnants of the Old West legend among the modern day descendants of the cowboys, the Indians, and the miners. Narrated by Leslie Nielson. CH.7. Color...
...workshop of speculation is not entirely Greene's. The author of the original hit play, John-Michael Tebelak, collaborated with him on a screenplay that finds no equivalent in hippie jargon for the exalted language of the Bible. Instead it offers, among other conceits, the Lazarus legend climaxed with a pie in the face. Stephen Schwartz's score is perfectly suited to this level of imitation rock. "God save the people . . ./ Save the people from despair," one of Schwartz's lyrics moans. A good beginning would have been to spare them Godspell, which adores him far less...
...racist. I believe in racial purity ... I do not want my race to be polluted. The Jews? It is their own fault. They never did want to be true citizens of one country ... It is a legend that 6,000,000 of them were killed...