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While in prison, Molina diverts Valentin, who is stingy with his pleasures (a stereotypical Marxist?), by recounting scenes from a Nazi propaganda film. These sepia-toned passages tell the preposterous tale of a French nightclub singer (Sonia Braga) meeting and loving a ranking SS commandant and are intended to showcase the salvation that is the movie theater--a promising motif. Unfortunately, the film-within-the-film is a let-down, unamusing...
Despite his declared identification with the literati and his scorn for the "layers upon layers of cheap nightclub hypocrisy," Townshend writes more about cheap sex and drinking bouts than about great ideas or great thinkers...
...battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save Tom's soul and Beth's body, open a nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach them how to play New England baseball ("It's straight poker, but deuces are wild for white men"). He even has the wit and gumption to prevent his new span from...
...Three times a week, young patrons let loose to hot backgrounds at Carlos Murphy's, a restaurant in La Jolla, Calif., where technicians enhance the performances by projecting singers' images on a giant video screen and playing applause tapes afterward. "If the sing-along machine were put in every nightclub, it would cut into psychiatrists' business by 50%," says Ed Masterson, who produces the club's sing-out. "It's a tremendous release. You become someone important, even if it's only for a night." And for an encore? "I did it my way," of course...
...spirit, to buy homes and consider citizenship in the nation that, for the present at least, offers them attractive business opportunities and an amenable society. "Ten years ago, everything was based on England," says Sahir Erozan, 27, a Turkish immigrant who owns Cafe Med, a luxe nightclub in the tony Georgetown section of Washington. "Now America is the place to go, the thing...