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During "What is This Thing Called Love?" and David Frutkoff's rendition of Sondheim's more recent "Losing My Mind," After Hours becomes simply a musical recital. Nothing happens onstage, and the tunes lose the original meanings they conveyed as a part of the musicals McIntosh lifts them from. The...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Hooking the Audience | 4/30/1980 | See Source »

The Last of the Blue Devils, first-time director Bruce Ricker's movie about Kansas City jazzmen, gets around these limitations of jazz cinematography better than any film I have seen. Jazz purists may balk at the liberties Ricker has taken--solos are cropped from longer performances, music is cut...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Kansas City Lovin' | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

A word should be mentioned here about a woman named Carmen Williams, a sophomore at Harvard. Williams performs a couple of spectacular solos on the first side; on "I Wanna Be Ready," one of the records' two or three cuts, she is a force of nature, her voice powerful and...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Creativity | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

On his way to fame and fortune he has goofy romantic collisions with a couple of formidable and very amusing ladies, a mean, mean carnival motorcyclist (Catlin Adams), who beats him up, and a virtuous cosmetologist (Bernadette Peters), who plays cornet solos to express her love. He makes and loses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cat Catcher | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

But as the '70s fade, so may Fleetwood Mac. For the most part, Tusk continues the tradition of the predictable Fleetwood Mac song--strong, throbbing percussion, acoustic guitar, and lyrics often unintelligable and always accompanied by lots of "oooh-waahs" or "sha-la-las". True, there is some experimentation with...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Driftwood of the '70s | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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