Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest until they got a call from a Mr. Stickweed, who turned out to be Robert Stigwood, the pop music nabob. An audition was arranged. Stigwood arrived, late and hung over, and kept his head buried in his arms as the boys gave him their version of Puff (The Magic Dragon). "We started to worry we were making his hangover even worse," Maurice remembers. Finally Stigwood cut them off, mumbled something that sounded complimentary and signed them to a five-year contract. Says Robin: "We realized Bob didn't really care what we sounded like. It was our songs...
...this is not to say that the film does not have some good moments. The scene in which the "Planotones" (Danny and the Juniors) record "Come and Go With Me" truly captures that magic second when artists find the groove and turn onto something classic. As Freed watches his producer exhort the "Planotones," you can't help but be struck by the thrill of discovery the musicians must have felt...
Likewise, Jay Leno and Fran Drescher as Freed's chauffeur and secretary fall into each other's arms during the rock show after having bickered with each other throughout the whole movie. We are meant to think t hat it's the magic of the moment and they really liked each other anyway, but this is implausible if one attends to their characters, which are wonderful and funny, but not the sort that fall in love. In short, this movie delegates to the viewer the creation of a large portion of the screenplay. I personally was disappointed that I could...
...mind that philosophy, can music, embrace botany, magic, sculpture, mathematics and folklore belongs in the quattrocento, not in the Manhattan ware house district. But Hayward Cirker is content. The owlish founder and president of Dover Publications Inc. insists that he is precisely where he belongs. "I'm no Renaissance man," he maintains. "I'm just curious...
...rest, we will rediscover the human Jesus who was lost in abstract theological gymnastics. Jesus will then be a model for our living, which the earliest Christians meant him to be. The notion of Jesus as God is a base form of idolatry that makes religion a form of magic, rather than an attempt to address real, human concerns in the here...