Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIVORCED. Mia Farrow, 33, pixyish actress (Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby);and Andre Previn, 49, composer, conductor and currently music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony; after eight years of marriage, six children (three adopted); in Santo Domingo...
Quintet's tedium is in no way relieved by Altman's film-making technique. In place of his usual brio, the director has used pretentious cinematic gimmicks, monochromatic sets and portentous, dissonant music. He reduces an all-star international cast-Newman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey, David Langton, Vittorio Gassman-to interchangeable (and often indistinguishable) ciphers. He blurs the perimeters of his images with Vaseline. Though two writers assisted Altman on the screenplay, the witless lines amount to paint-by-number existentialism: "Every time you cheat death, you feel the pure thrill of life...
...high hopes that its weekend of rock will pile up Nielsen points during the February "sweeps" period, and that is something of a signal. Rock 'n' roll, roughly 25 years old, has endured, mutated and flourished. Only one thing has changed. Rock started as rebel music. It has been big business for years. This weekend is a reminder that it has slipped smoothly into the cultural mainstream...
...roots-in country and rhythm and blues-right. Before they talk about Buddy Holly, they show Hank Williams. Elvis storms on only after due notice has been paid to Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Muddy Waters and Ray Charles. To underscore the point, and to illustrate how threatening this music once seemed, Leo and Solt include some footage of angry parents, disc jockeys breaking rock records, and assorted other representatives of a concerned older generation, including a member of the segregationist White Citizens' Council, denouncing the music with considerable heat...
Both shows are a reminder of how deeply rock has penetrated and modified American popular culture. At the core of the vast rock audience is still the generation that first heard the music, that danced to it, changed with it, married to it, and died to it in Viet Nam: a generation that has never outgrown, will never outgrow the music. A group called the Showmen said it best, and most simply, in a tune that Heroes uses as a theme: "It Will Stand...