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ONCE AGAIN, this time with The Savage Messiah Ken Russell has reduced the art of biography to semi-porno voyeurism in Bohemian meller terms the least we might expect from biography is a token effort at vensimulitude. But Russell ransacks the facts and substitutes his hyped-up version of artistic truth in tasteless tribute to the life of Henri Gaudier Brzeska...
...cemetery to steal his stone and starts fiendishly to sculpt. He pours sweat and blither in a steady stream of inspiration until the light of dawn the impossible stands before him--a revolutionary bus of Beauty Shaw of course, never shows up So the by now manic messiah carts his statue through a violent downpour to Shaw's gallery in the center of Paris and to a crescendo of stormy musak, he hurls his bust exultantly at the horrified faces behind the gallery glass...
CHERI. Young Winston, eves at 8:30, Mats. Wed. 2, Sat., Sun., Hol. 2 & 5:15. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, 1:30, 3:15, 5, 6:45, 8:30, 10:15. Savage Messiah...
...Downey's Messiah is a vaudevillian, his devil is a figure of preposterous melodrama-a glowering, gun-toting saloonkeeper named Greaser (Albert Henderson) who keeps his mother behind bars ("You'll always be my favorite," she reassures him) and who suffers from chronic constipation. His trips to the privy are state occasions, with his retinue of dim-witted subordinates nervously circling outside, awaiting glad tidings of relief that are never forthcoming...
...Society's Good News for Modern Man. It may be just a shade too enthusiastic in its use of exclamation points ("Then he heard a voice!"), and sometimes a bit of color seems to be lost. In Mark's Gospel, when John the Baptist talks about the Messiah as "he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie," Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy to be his slave." In the Book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar makes a gold image and orders people...