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High expectations aside, Smooth Talk is an enormously frustrating, painful movie to watch. Which is not to say that it is not ultimately likeable. Concerning itself with human flaws and the mistakes in judgment to which we've all fallen prey, we are tempted either to meld into the cellulose and stop the characters from acting as they do, or to walk out of the theatre in order to avoid bearing witness to such fatalistically dumb behavior. In summary, this is a movie that hits home very hard...
...charismatic front man. His piano playing, though inimitable, was hardly virtuoso stuff. But William ("Count") Basie had one supreme gift: he knew how to meld a dozen or more idiosyncratic instrumentalists into a single, pulsing organism with a voice of its own, which was always somehow his voice. The bluesy, stomping bands he led from the mid-1930s until his death in 1984, at age 79, were among the best in jazz history. Not that Basie makes any such claims in Good Morning Blues. On the page as in life, he is a modest man, given to understatement...
...technique which he used before rock videos and "Miami Vice" even existed, in underrated films like Sorcerer and Cruising. The "look" in To Live and die in L.A., achieved in collaboration with cinematographer Robby Muller (Paris, Texas) and production designer Lilly Kilvert, is splashy and steamy, a meld of industrial wasteland and high-tech decor with a cumulative presence stronger than the characters and story. It is more powerful and yet more subtle than "Miami Vice" where loud musical scores drown out even gunshots...
Some of these songs may strike Heads fans as mainstream yuk. Guitars mush with drums which further meld into Byrne's vocals. No instrument stands out enough to give the songs the usual simplicity that demands concentration. Resembling a collection of Bruce Springsteen tunes, most of these songs can only be differentiated by their lyrics...
...school, he got a chance to audition for the part of his boyhood hero. His punk haircut with "a little spike" was a problem, he recalls, but he promised Film Maker Dino De Laurentiis he would let his hair grow. And so what the actor calls his "Kyle-Paul meld" began in earnest. He read Dune five or six times before getting the part and has read it five or six times since. With the $40 million space saga now in the can, MacLachlan, 25, is wondering what effect all the publicity of the Christmas opening will have...