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...next year's Final Four featured the Motown sound of the Hrkae circus of North Dakota. I remember the Hobey Baker Award winner controlling the play as precisely as Magic Johnson runs a Laker fast break...
...magic of this LP is that even this melodramatic treatment works in the context of the album's Christmas spirit and sense of current pop history. Just as Perry Como's Christmas LPs please our parents, and Phil Spector and Motown Christmas records serve the baby boomers, A Very Special Christmas is meant for us, capturing the true pop sounds and commercial spirit of a today--for a good cause...
...Kureishi and Frears also toss in some surreal and offbeat moments that are especially unique and funny. Rosie demonstrates the socio-political implications of "snogging" by kissing three men while watching a TV program on the mating habits of lions. Street musicians perform the Temptation's "My Girl," including Motown-style choreography, while the camera cuts between scenes of various couples trysting. Sammy's mistress, Anna (Wendy Gazelle), a New York photographer, has a "w" tattooed on each buttock "so that when I bend over, it spells...
...notions of great men who shape destinies and insignificant men who suffer like extras in an antediluvian epic, every motive is up for grabs. And what do we find in an empire's night ashes? Punks and ghosts and madmen dancing in the carnage or singing a Motown melody as all the survivors copulate on Armageddon Eve. In Sammy & Rosie's cultural revolution, the radicals strike not poses but sexual sparks. They give a lovely light...
...Neal, in another Motown parallel, is a modern-day Marvin Gaye, able to sing powerfully on both funk jams and ballads. And for Jam and Lewis, accustomed to the frail voice of Jackson or the nonexistent voice of Alpert, a real singer completes the framework they've needed to perfect their sound...