Word: mick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitions of each are thwarted by the fumbled intentions of the others. Davies, the old man, wants to walk across London to pick up the papers he left with a friend . . . twenty years before. Aston, the older brother and a former mental patient, wants to build a tool shed. Mick wants to make the building into handsome, profitable flats. None of the three succeed. The old man doesn't get along and is turned...
...their mouths was distinctive. I. Mackenzie Lamb as Davies rasped out his lines with twitching lips and lolling tongue. Aston, played by Tom Jones, moved his lips, slowly, evenly, methodically, biting and clenching them only in his hypnotic description of an electric shock treatment. James Shuman as Mick would harass Davies, using an exaggerated enunciation, flaring his nostrils and then subsiding to a pursuing of his lips, half quizzical, half sneering...
Shuman was a bit too slight for the brash young contractor he portrayed. his acting was more strained than the others'. He became too agitated in some of Mick's speeches which should be played with a biting, deadpan humor. But his carriage was properly deadpan--a slump-shouldered, flat-footed walk. And most essential, he captured Mick's love for his brother, reflected in the abrupt concerned, slowing down of his speech whenever the bewildered Davies took one of the younger brother's fanciful harangues as an attack on Aster...
...single Get Off of My Cloud, is another Rolling Stones foray into rhythm and blues. There are signs no bigger than an LP's band that the Stones are softening. As Tears Go By is a weeper that Bobby Vinton might sing, though not so well as Mick Jagger, who is actually accompanied by violins...
...Singer Mick Jagger intones such earthy lyrics...