Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...display of Geller's tenacity, to its considerable cost. Grandbanke, a partnership among several out-of-towners, wants to take away Geller's license and run the station the way everyone knows a station ought to be run. Gloucester would no longer have to rely on the 40-odd other stations in range to hear the weather, world and local news, what the Dow Jones is up to. It would be blessed with 60-second spots on "Wonderful Cape Ann" and a daily report "For Fishermen Only." And, of course, pleasant voices and a mix of tasteful music. Grandbanke...
...their christening dresses. Dissolve. A teenage mother sits with the back of her head to the camera and discusses her heroin addiction with Bryant Gumbel. Dissolve. Ronald Reagan grasps the lectern and vows to lick this scourge. Dissolve. A gray figure skulks in an alley and holds an odd contraption to his mouth. The voice-over cites statistics on the use of something called "crack," speaks of billions spent this year alone on illegal drugs, of the alarming rise of this, the terrifying appearance of that. Dissolve. Green fields in Colombia. Dissolve. Bolivia. John Belushi. Len Bias. Dissolve. Dissolve...
...pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium arch around a quickly readable image. Anyone who doubts that this time-honored method can still be affecting need only look to David Burnett's elegant and straightforward pictures of minor league baseball. But Burnett is the odd man out in this show, where the prevailing tone is more hectic or quizzical...
...reversals of mood but still manages to hold together splendidly. Thank Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale (whose elegy to Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", played the West End last year) for the film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn as the stage-frighted magician with a dead rabbit under his top hat. The rabbit is the only stiff in this fine time at the movies. And Bleasdale is the best thing to come out of Liverpool since John, Paul...
First married at 19, Earle hitched to Nashville while his wife was away and he thought he could make his mark. He moved there in 1974 and managed to write a few songs while cadging odd jobs. He built swimming pools. He worked house construction. Once, in 1975, a dream almost came true: Elvis was going to record one of Earle's songs, but he never showed up at the studio. After cutting a few singles for Epic and an album for CBS that was shelved, Earle recalls, "I lost all my confidence. I thought I had lost my edge...