Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again, they've hit the jackpot: Their new creation, Animal House, will greatly amuse all but the easily offended. It is easily the funniest movie of the year. Much of it merits praise, even lavish praise. But it is interesting to note how much they've stuck to their original gags, how they've maintained the edge of offensiveness tempered by outrageousness and good humor. And insipidly enough, Animal House is also quite the Ivy League film. For Animal House is the ultimate Dartmouth movie--or, at least the ultimate rendering of the characteristically snotty Harvard image of Dartmouth...
...have been told that the Israeli girl is so well described that I must have had such a relationship myself," says Giovannetti. "Not true. Some of the people are real, with names changed, some are half real, but the girl is one of the inventions." Nevertheless he does note that spy and priest, ironically, have something in common in their abstinence and discipline. "Panin could dream what Righi could not," says the author, "but in the final analysis they were both committed to an austere life...
...success in this kind of music, and in composing in general, he added, "is to learn music at the very first from the ear, not from the note." Schools should teach music students to "stretch their ears," to be creative and to "internalize" sounds instead of just writing them down, he said. However, he concluded, "we are today turning out a tremendous number of improvisors who are robots...
...does an agreeable turn as Mr. Kite, the mayor of Heartland, explains that the idea of a second band worried everyone: "We didn't know how they would sound." Well, they sound all right, enough like the Beatles to be respectful, enough not like them to take note of the eleven years that have gone...
...coming executive at the bank, Annemarie has started her own public relations agency; after only seven months, it is already in the black. Says she: "You can't be weak-spirited in America. It can be very encouraging but very ruthless." On a personal note, she adds: "I can't help being charged here. My senses are heightened and I'm continually on edge. I keep saying, 'Wow! Is this really happening?' " Jacques Murphy, 46, notwithstanding his surname, is a French-descended Quebecois whose family has lived in Canada for five generations. Last September Monsieur...