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...With this dramatic presentation, and after the benediction of Oscar, directors lined up to cast Hayes in their films. He had the title role in Jonathan Kaplan's Truck Turner, starring with Yaphet Kotto, Scatman Crothers and, as a randy-mouthed madam, Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols. (It was really a black Rockford Files, the James Garner TV series that started the same year and on which Hayes had a few guest shots.) Hayes also co-starred in Duccio Tessari's Tough Guys, which mixed the blaxploitation and Italian action genres to produce what might be called a blaxpaghetti movie...
Spielberg's segment (based on a 1962 TV episode called Kick the Can) means to demonstrate his familiar compact with the movie audience: "If you believe, I can make you all feel like children." So speaks the endearing Scatman Crothers, presenting the gift of renewed youth to a home full of old folks. Once again Spielberg is cranking up the magic machine that has served him so well. This time the spell does not hold; one can hear only the machinery, purring like a contented windup kitten...
Besides the welcome participation of Stewart, The Shootist features Lauren Bacall, Richard Boone, Scatman Crothers, John Carradine and Ron Howard, of American Graffiti, whose youthful presence must have helped ease the insurance premiums on the cast. Wayne, of course, is the honcho, and he performs well, although he must have been a little discomfited at having to play the lead in his own eulogy. Siegel starts The Shootist off with film clips to show Books in action over the years. The scenes, of course, are from previous Wayne vehicles. Some are of rather recent vintage, others antique, but they pertain...
...Jarreau: Glow (Reprise). Jarreau is primarily a jazz singer with a scatman's vast repertory of swoops, glides and vocal glissandi. In concerts he adds his own million-dollar magic trick: he carries a band in his larynx - or so it seems when Jarreau fills in the melody with vocal imitations of instruments. He can even accompany himself, crooning the words of a sleepy ballad while making rhythmic clicks deep in his throat to provide a percussive counterpoint. Jarreau's vocal antics on this LP are confined to a guitar (Fire and Rain), flute (Glow) and bass (Hold...
...Albert may be daft-he carries a small pocket telescope to spy upon squirrels-but he is still concerned about his nephew Craig. Since the death of his parents, Craig (Jeff Bridges) has been living in the family home on a hill outside Birmingham, with only one black servant (Scatman Crothers) and a lot of pictures of himself for company. "It is time," Uncle Albert advises by letter, "to seek the comforts of your traditions." Craig's traditions are genteel Southern, wilted aristocratic, but they are small solace. What really compels Craig is what his deceased parents might have...