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...Altman's impatience with conventional narrative animates his film, so does his patience with and trust of actors. He's always been a man who encourages his performers to riff on a script's themes, and they respond with astonishing brio. "This movie was like a symphony, with Bob serving as the conductor," says one of his featured players, Matthew Modine. "It created a tremendous amount of pressure because you have to understand where you're at, when you come in, and what your role is. It's like a musician standing in front of these two big timpani drums...
American Honky-Tonk Bar Association is all the more unfortunate since the rest of this album is so well conceived and executed, covering country, blues and full-out rock. Standing Outside the Fire, a song about living life to the fullest, begins with a catchy guitar riff that would be at home on many noncountry pop albums. "Life is not tried it is merely survived/ If you're standing outside the fire," sings Brooks over a percussion break that sounds nearly African. In concerts and in interviews, Brooks is an intense, full- throttle performer, and the song manages to captures...
...that he hopes to bring under control. At the moment, no aspect of procurement escapes Gore's memory. While some politicians speak in sound bites and some in windy paragraphs, Gore speaks at book length whenever possible. One of his favorite gigs -- Mop & Glo for short -- is an extended riff on the insanely complex specifications for a federal purchase...
...Eileen" starts off generically enough with a cymbal crash and a quick snare beat that could belong to Sinead O'Connor or Tom Petty. After six bars, Richards cuts in with a simple guitar riff reminiscent of "Start Me Up," the kind of easy-going groove that puts the listener at home right away...
...Yorkers, is finally going off the air after 10 acclaimed seasons. For the gala final episode, Julia Louis- Dreyfus makes a return appearance as Elaine (the movie career didn't work out) and meets her successor in the cast, Melanie Mayron. In a typically Seinfeldian life-imitates-art riff, George (Jason Alexander), now head of network programming, tells Jerry his sitcom is being canceled. Kramer (Michael Richards), elected to Congress in the eighth season, finds himself involved in a sex scandal. Meanwhile, Jerry wonders just what's the deal with those little air bubbles in packing crates...