Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party Scene...
...album liner notes complete the grim destruction of subtlety. For every cut Hubbard has written a brief description of the precise scene she wants to create with her music. It would have been preferable just to read her notes and take the tedium of the album on faith...
Singer has never had greater command of his material. At times he is the Jewish Somerset Maugham, spinning yarns of jealousy and violence with the detached tone of a narrator who just happened to be on the scene when the gun went off. At other instances he is a Kafkaesque master of the parable. At still others he is as comic and trenchant as Saul Bellow: a pretentious artist declares, "I must create. This is a physical need with me." A writer who consents to meet with a wealthy vulgarian is enticed with promises: "In the other world, a huge...
Novelist John Phillips Marquand died only two decades ago, but social realities and the American literary scene have changed so thoroughly that Millicent Bell's thoughtful biography has become a work of archaeology. Marquand was a master of the literary flashback, now a wholly owned subsidiary of cinema, and a satirist of the rich, who have been depleted by taxes and supplanted by rock promoters and multinational executives...
Charo, Martha Raye, Alain Delon, Mercedes McCambridge and Jimmy ("J.J.") Walker were also along for the ride. At one point the audience gets to witness a sex scene between George Kennedy and Bibi Andersson...