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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still intends to aim his show at "the young, the disaffected and the minority groups," but he has added another group: "Big business." Or, in other words, "not just the havenots, but also the haves who have something to say." Along these more practical lines, the Smotherses have also reorganized their production company. The trouble with the old company, says Tommy, is that "all our beautiful intentions didn't have a solid foundation of financial logic and production schedules behind them. We had all those long-haired creative types walking around, but none of those smart cats in brown...
What pleases all composers is the way the LP has broadened the taste and intelligence of the listener. "Once only kings made love to music," says Berio. "Now everybody does." Adds Germany's Hans Werner Henze: "Audiences have learned to hear pieces of music more than once and thus have acquired a training in hearing musical structures." That kind of knowing audience has made possible a new mode of composition in which snippets from, say, the Baroque, French Impressionism and Viennese post-Romanticism are pasted into surrealistic aural collages that would lose much of their point for anyone...
...Birmingham and Selma; of a ruptured aorta; in Birmingham. "I am not a Nigra-hater," Lingo once said. "I've played with 'em, I've eaten with 'em and I've worked with 'em, but I still believe in segregation. You can say that some of my best friends are Nigras...
That is where Woody's road ends, in front of an old church that Ray (James Broderick) and Alice (Pat Quinn) have converted into a communal dorm for wandering kids. Life seems just about perfect-or "together," as the kids say -but Penn sees destruction all around. Ray and Alice, playing foster parents, bitch away at each other in rivalry for the affections of a reformed junkie named Shelly (Michael McClanatha). Woody lies dying in a Brooklyn hospital of Huntington's chorea, a hereditary affliction of the nervous system that Arlo may not escape. When Woody and Shelly...
...aching desolation. Despite a few false steps (like a love scene between Alice and Shelly played with a garage air hose), Alice's Restaurant is one of the best and most perceptive films about young people ever made in the U.S. It is, as they themselves would say, very much together...