Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since his death by overdose in 1966, the myth of Lenny Bruce as an outlaw saint who gave his life to the cause of free speech has become an article of faith among the culturally disaffected of many moral, political and even sexual persuasions. According to their hagiography, Bruce was hounded into drugs, poverty, madness and finally suicide by a repressively puritanical Establishment. It is upon this belief that a Broadway show, several books and now Bob Fosse's movie have fed-or tried to feed...
...movie is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's visionary fairy tale about a pilot, crash-landed in the Sahara, who confronts his own innocence in the form of a very young man of royalty from a distant planet. The score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...
Difficult Challenge. The story's rather inconsistent mysticism stumbles into sentimentality once or twice, but Donen makes even that seductive. He has made no attempt to mimic Saint-Exupéry's eloquent line drawings. Instead, he has some of them reproduced when the pilot does sketches on a note pad for the Little Prince. It is an act of friendly homage that devotees of the book will like as much as Donen's fidelity to the fragile spirit of the original. He has in fact pulled off a rather difficult challenge. The visual style...
...John just taken a break and turned on the TV in his hotel room while the rest of the boys went out for a smoke, he might have seen one of the many reruns of a series called The Saint, starring Roger Moore as an unruffled crimebuster. Then during Gold, when he might have spotted Moore playing the part of a mining engineer, he would have known immediately that all his cunning was for nothing. He could thus have saved us a lot of trouble...
...recital was merely the first of an inaugural series this season featuring such other eminent organists as Pierre Cochereau, Fernando Germani and Claire Coci. More important, perhaps, the new organ will permit performances of a sizable repertory of neglected works for orchestra and organ-notably the Saint-Saens "Organ" Symphony, the Poulenc Organ Concerto, and the concertos of Handel and Haydn...