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Sing, written by Dean Pitchford and directed by Richard Baskin, could be called 42nd Street: Duh Motion Pitchuh. It carts all the cliches of a Broadway backstage story to a decrepit Brooklyn Central High and populates it with Sesame Street renegades. Each class puts on a musical skit, or "sing," with groups led by a black, a Greek, an Italian and a Jew -- the "rainbow coalition" that exists only in Hollywood musicals. Yes, the tough Italian stud (Peter Dobson) falls for the sweet Jewish girl (Jessica Steen). And, honest, when the star of her skit gets knocked unconscious, the stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Life Ain't Worth Livin' | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...dialogue is all song cues; Pitchford's songs are standard technopop, except for a comic showstopper, called Life Ain't Worth Livin' (When You're Dead), that the suicidal teens of Heathers might take to heart. Otherwise, Sing is strictly Gold Diggers turned to brass. In the latest teenpix class portrait, it's a dropout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Life Ain't Worth Livin' | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...result of all these costs, Carrie barely had carfare home after its Broadway opening night. There was no contingency plan, just a hope against hope for generosity from the critics. When that failed, Gore, Librettist Lawrence Cohen and Lyricist Dean Pitchford started shopping for emergency investors to create an instant reserve fund. Landesman pondered stepping in with more cash from Jujamcyn but in the end decided not to underwrite even one additional week's losses so the search for investors could go on. Explains Landesman: "I would have put up $500,000, but I didn't see the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Biggest All-Time Flop Ever | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

FOOTLOOSE Directed by Herbert Ross; Screenplay by Dean Pitchford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revel Without a Cause | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...movie never lives up to-or survives-those first few minutes. Partly this arises from the picture's design. Though it is being marketed with the now familiar multi-media blitz, Footloose means to imitate Flashdance only in its box-office success. Ross and Screenwriter-Songwriter Dean Pitchford have set their sights much higher. The basic plot-Rebel Without a Cause crossed with the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musicals in which somebody always shouted, "Hey, kids, let's put the show on right here!"-is buttressed with motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revel Without a Cause | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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