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...sprightly pace to the requisite two-record album of last year's hits that functions as the music track. But the vignettes that percolated between Crowe's soft covers are ironed into decal cliches on the screen Director Amy Heckerling has failed to provide the raunch or poignancy that would interest young moviegoers, all of whom have seen American Graffiti and its 467 imitators. Ridgemont High? A nice place to visit, but who would want to transfer there...
After it's over and before the Stones hit the next city on their current "Tattoo You" rampage, Robert Palmer or some other prominent rockologist will write yet another piece confirming that the group has recaptured the old raunch, that Richards seems sharper than ever, that Jagger can still hypnotize the masses by merely taking off his shirt and sticking his hands in his pants. "This is the real thing," we will be reminded...
...called The Dresser, concerning the trials of a third-rate classical actor on a perpetual tour of the provinces. Practically next door is a new Alan Ayckbourn roundelay called Taking Steps, an alternately hilarious and melancholy meditation on adulteries among the middle classes. The West End can play up raunch (Wot' No Pyjamas! and-yes, in its tenth year-No Sex Please- We 're British) as well as tradition (yes, going strong and apparently about to enter the second millennium, The Mousetrap) while also accommodating experiment. A radical theater company has been performing Accidental Death of an Anarchist...
...babysitting and the late show is over. Problem is, most quasi-liberated housewives won't have them, being just with-it enough to fill their bookshelves with Erica Jong but not serious enough to challenge their minds with something truly bad, truly thought-provoking. The acceptable suburban raunch used to be The Happy Hooker, pure and wholesome smut, until women's lib hit the suburbs and Fear of Flying replaced the dog-eared Xaviera Hollander paperback because Erica had something important to say. This was smut with a message...
...Ellen festered into a major femme maudite, an alcoholic adulteress who both loves and hates her baby. Gray blossomed in the role, bringing it passion, grandeur and a touch of raunch. Through her soft, melodious voice, her carriage and her steely blue eyes, she suggested Sue Ellen's lifetime of good breeding and rude awakening, the lady whom J.R. forced to become a tramp. Says Gray: "I love the great broads of the world. I love Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. I love crying and letting the mascara run. I keep saying to the scriptwriters, 'Whatever...