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Westheimer panned the pop singer's book, "Erotica," a recently released, mylar-wrapped paean...
Children of Paradise: Shooting the Dream is an intricately layered celebration of the street shows Carne admired, a re-enactment of much of his movie, a backstage soap opera about his colleagues, a moral assessment of the choices they faced and a paean to their enduring impact. It starts by hemming spectators into the lobby of the Theatre de la Jeune Lune's gorgeous new $3 million home, where they are jostled by pickpockets and a woman on stilts during a raucous raree, full of the horseplay and menace of Carne's "street of many murders." Once the action moves...
...standard club volume, the fat bass line under this song does physically invade your body. Other audio tricks abound. "Bye Bye Baby," for instance, whips Madonna's voice into a studio-distorted baby doll. The album also features a foray "Deeper and Deeper" into discoland, as well as a paean to oral sex in "Where Life Begins." And if you ever wondered what "Justify My Love" would sound like over a house beat, it's here on "Waiting...
...irony is that the rest of the movie effectively give the lie to Roberts' proclamation. It's a paean to the '60s and an indictment of the '80s. It's a tribute to idealistic caring and muckraking investigative reporting and a giant dis to Wall Street, greed and image control...
...BOTTOM LINE: A paean to Reaganomics that glosses over the excesses and inequities of the Reagan...