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Such an all-encompassing enterprise, composed of pieces that don't quite fit together, was bound to become a Frankenstein monster with multiple personalities. Altogether, there were 44 award categories, representing everyone from Brother Blue to Bim Skala Bim, from the obscure to the nationally famous, from singles to albums to videos, from folk to country to jazz to reggae to rock to hardcore...
Reverend Kenneth Carstens and African NationalCongress representative Aggrey Mbene also spoke,and several bands, including the HUCTW Pipets andthe reggae band Bim Skala Bim, played during therally...
Once the hallucinations disappear, Roseland glides on to the banal triangle of a wealthy woman (Joan Copeland), a narcissistic gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an awkward naif (Geraldine Chaplin). The final number features a retired cook (Lilia Skala) who dreams of winning a dance prize before she dies. The only prize the cook deserves is one for overheating her role...
With the exception of the delicate Chaplin, the other performers are as unacceptable as Skala, belting out their monologues, Broadway-style, in a series of relentless closeups. Only in the evocative dance routines, staged by Choreographer Patricia Birch, does the cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived...
...Skala, unlike the larger and important town of Smyrna, was entirely deserted, and Seferis's childhood flickered on its broken facade. He tried to capture it whole in the form of a huge plane tree--but it had died. He looked for it in his initials scratched on a wall, but he couldn't find them anymore. Irretrievable roots...He left for the last time, a seafarer...