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...human entertainment conglomerate, manipulating every medium known to man in the cause of her art--and presumably her pocket-book. She has become well-known among college students in the past few years primarily for her records. Best known are her two Warner Brothers releases. Big Science (1982) and Mister Heartbreak (1984), as well as her five-record chronicle of the performance-art piece United States Parts...
This performance differed from her 1984 Mister Heartbreak tour in that Anderson had musical support from only a single synthesizer and two male backup singers. Her barrage of instruments included a particularly bizarre vocoder (a synthesizer that alters the sound of human voice), an amplified microphone stand on which she tapped out the beat for "Closed Circuit," and her own technological innovation, the magnetic tape-bow violin...
...1940s the Music Hall was the most popular entertainment attraction in Manhattan. Both New Yorkers and tourists waited hours for tickets to the opening of such postwar films as Mister Roberts, An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain. Along with the movie, they saw the Rockettes, the troupe of 36 dancers who remain the living symbols of the hall...
...exception to this misplaced descent into escapism concerns the scene in Which Celie finally severs her ties with Mister, calling him a creep and setting off with Shug to build a new life. For these few minutes, Spielberg achieves the mix of realism and spiritual triumph that elsewhere evades him. The movie ends with a reunion scene between Celie and Nettie, an obvious Spielbergian tear-jerker that would have been pardonable had the rest of the movie followed a different course...
...Best Actress. Goldberg has the perfect face for Celie, capable as she is of transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some of the film's most engaging moments are those featuring the minor and often humorous characters that Walker used to show the absurdity of Celie's situation...