Word: mellowered
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...Paul Reubens, though, the guy is within driving distance of normal. He's not the greasy, bearded freak from the infamous mug shot or the manic wad of frustration that is Pee-wee but a mellow, slyly funny 48-year-old whose oddest obvious quirk is that he's trying--and succeeding--at coming off like a 30-year-old. He has shaggy, jet-black hair with bangs, wears a horseshoe-embroidered black Guyabara and jeans and has a freakishly creaseless complexion. And he has proved his ability to pull off non-Pee-wee characters over the past few years...
...though paralleling the shift in drug trends from mellow pot to frenetic coke, the movie pulls into high gear once Jung and Diego go into the cocaine-import business. (A second aside: Does the schizophrenic nature of the movie mean to imply “pot good, cocaine bad”?) Jung meets Mirtha, played by Cruz in thoroughly unsympathetic fashion, and the two begin a torrid relationship, all wild sex and drug binges. The money that accompanies the cocaine business causes a string of problems: betrayals occur left and right, friendships are broken and the now-married Jung...
Instead of settling into the dirty mellow grooves that have marked his last three albums, Scofield launched into a steely edged and slightly jarring bop sound with “Do I Crazy?” from Works for Me. After brushing off the cobwebs collected from a few days on the road, Scofield stuck into the unsettling syncopated rhythms, weaving shattering dissonant chords into elaborate finger runs as he revelled in conjuring the glory days of jazz when bop was a budding musical form...
...soar over the melody, as he engaged in touching introspective moments in the middle register and soaring to plaintive highs in upper octaves. As such, work provided a fitting counterpoint to the previous “Chicken Dog.” While the former relieved tension by closing with mellow, mellifluous chords, “Mrs. Scofield’s Waltz”was rudely interrupted at the end by piercing dissonances, the heart-rending tribute rendered barren by coarse and interruptive cacophony. It merely serves to demonstrate how Scofield refused to let his audience become complacent with the music...
...Director David Pryor, a former Arkansas senator, said he is not worried that time has made the participants any more mellow about the election...