Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie under his belt (the insipid Thunderbolt and Lightfoot), sold the British recording company EMI the idea for a terrific film--a gut-wrenching Vietnam drama. The Deer Hunter. A hot idea, Vietnam laced with contemporary American pop romanticism. The Vietnam War the way Bruce Springsteen would probably sing about it. Workin' class guys, they go and they fight for their country, 'cause their country ain't so great, you know--it's real bad sometimes--but they go anyway, 'cause it's their country and they're men. So you get tortured in P.O.W. camps and one of your...
...pieces lose some of their subtlety due to the cast's occasional lack of balance--Freyer has come up with a fine score. Two complex ballads with wonderful lyrics indeed are the highlights of the show. When the three female U.S.O. troupers (Dede Schmeiser, Carla Seidel and Susannah Rabb) sing "Here's to the Guys," or Hope and Alura sing "The G.I. Blues," the show takes on the magical fusion of perfect elements...
...voice of the organ echoes down the mighty Gothic nave as the congregation rises to sing the Doxology...
...spelling tactic. "It's rescued me from a fate that's worse than death: just like a destiny, it gives me new breath." Music is inextricable from his existence; it is his escape art. The kids who have nothing else to live for play a battered instrument or sing, dreaming of being in a rock-and-roll band, and Jeffreys romanticizes this dream's cleansing powers, which are dwindling with the new diversity and problems in the record business...
What doth it profit an animation director if he dreams big but draws bad? Bakshi's characters have ill-defined noses and chins, they shrug and dislocate a shoulder, they sing and recede into Peter Max poster-haste. Their gestures and voices are grossly exaggerated; they all seem to have gone to Actors Studio and learned only to overact. They are Bakshi's image of America: searching for archetypal dreams, living out clich...