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...film is stunningly photographed by Ernest Dickerson, and the costume and set design (Wynn Thomas) play strong supporting roles. Mo' Better Blues is, without a doubt, beautiful to look at. The film's music score, written by Bill Lee, the filmmaker's father and a jazz musician himself, is strong, with both the title track and "Harlem Blues," sung by newcomer Williams, deserving special credit...
Similarly, Lee's use of metaphor, so effective in School Daze and Do the Right Thing, is very uneven. On one level, Lee rises to his previous standard in his attempts to discuss the exploitation of Black jazz musician by white businessmen. Both the characters of Indigo and Gilliam's mother are endorsements of the role of the Black women in American history. It has been universally acknowledged that the Black woman has played a stronger role in supporting Afro-American society than the Black male has. And Lee's pro-family theme is particularly relevant to Black society...
...Better Blues is not the typical jazz film; it does not attempt to glorify the individual achievement of some famous musician. Neither is the film a particularly strong statement about the relationship between Black and (mainstream) American society. So what is Mo' Better Blues about? In one sense, it is certainly about the powerful function of the family in modern human society. In another, it is a film based on a tried and true Hollywood formula...
Apparently, McCartney has learned over his long struggle to establish himself as a musician apart from the Beatles that musicianse must inevitably give concert-goers at least a little bit of what they want to hear. But this crowd didn't come to hear Wings, and it certainly didn't come to hear "Say, Say, Say." It came came to hear the Beatles...
...Hamptons, some blue collar is beginning to poke through the white. Many of the sport's ranked players trained on public courts; most of them work for a living and pay their own way to competitions around the world. At the vineyards' tournament, Dublin's Williams, a musician and graphics designer, was defeated by Debbie Cornelius, a secretary from England who had played a dairy farmer and an engineer. Players in Central Park included a bar owner, a steam fitter, a hairdresser, the maitre d' at New York City's Rainbow Room and Wall Street types...