Word: nightclubbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gardening and poring over magazines. Having sex ranked only 14th on the list. The pollsters turned up surprisingly traditional attitudes. Most respondents said leisure had to be earned with work, and 62% said work should have a higher priority than leisure. Only 15% admitted going to a bar or nightclub once or twice a week. Seven out of ten said hardly any of their free time is wasted, and six of ten said excess time is best spent when it focuses on goals. Said Social Scientist John Pollock, who supervised the study: "Our flinty Puritan heritage has its hooks...
DIVORCED. Cybill Shepherd, 32, comely model turned actress-singer; and David Ford, 29, maitre d' of a Memphis nightclub; after four years of marriage; on grounds of irreconcilable differences; in Memphis. Shepherd won custody of the couple's daughter, 3, and Ford was awarded a $15,000 divorce settlement...
...FLAMBEUR opens with a wonderful shot of Paris' Montmartre district. Softened by the early dawn, the view is reminiscent of an old, grainy photograph. But as the camera descends into the Place Pigalle and the back room of a seedy nightclub where Bob Montagne (Roger Duchesne) is losing miserably at craps, the atmosphere changes to one which is highly stylized and starkly black-and-white. The beauty of this film is the way in which it blends those two textures, morally as well as visually, into a witty and seamless union of French style and American film noir...
...does echoes of film noir as well as its own peculiar vision of Paris in the '50s. One of the most memorable shots is of the contrast in the still landscape of Montmartre at night. In the pitch black lower part of the frame only the sharply etched neon nightclub sign. "Pigalle," stands out, while above the dome of the Sacre Coeur cathedral is silhouetted against the mist. The music reinforces the fundamental contrast inherent in the film. It is magically distant and redolent of both jazz and the French music hall. The only part of the film that unfortunately...
Jackson drives all of this home--the emotion and the music and the passion--with the devastating "Slow Song." Singing a slow and impassioned plea to a nightclub disc jockey to "play us a slow song," he decries those who bluntly destroy the heart and soul of music with their harsh, indelicate approach. "Am I the only one," he asks...