Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence of that here. At Long Last Love is the untidy summation of a career that has become lost in synthetic giddiness. There are 16 Cole Porter tunes, so many that the movie seems to be strung together from a series of song cues. What passes for plot concerns the romances of two couples-Burt Reynolds and, inevitably, Cybill Shepherd; Madeline Kahn and Duilio Del Prete -as they sing and dance through some smoggy dream of the '30s. The couples do not sing very well, though, and in dancing resemble a troop of hikers trying to extinguish a campfire...
...Long Last Love might best be remembered as the movie that asks-or, unfortunately, sings-the question "Is it a breakdown, or merely a break?" That line from the title song might most appropriately be addressed to Bogdanovich himself. At Long Last Love cost $6 million, but might almost be worth it if the movie represented the low point of Bogdanovich's talent-the point from which he can only ascend. "Jay Cocks
...occurs on board a train loaded with passengers who are the devastated victims of concentration camps. The familiarity of the scene, the desolation of the faces, is awful. Yet Lelouch challenges our usual response by having a radio play Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade in the background. The song throws the scene into starker relief. The passengers are revealed not as victims but as survivors being ushered into the postwar world...
...bottom of a rain barrel; Mort Schuman, who comes on tousled and puppyish and is presumably available for comic relief; and Elly Stone. Miss Stone is what Variety might call a diminutive thrush. She is at pains to assure us, however, that she is mighty of spirit. In every song she gives it all she's got. In her case, this amounts to two wide eyes, a loud voice and a battery of emotional gestures that range from wringing her hands to flinging her arms wide apart, as if to guard against being crushed by invisible cathedral doors...
...sister is the real spark plug of the family," cracked Ted Kennedy after Eunice Shriver had assembled a crowd of 1,350 at Washington's Kennedy Center. Eunice's guests had come to see some song and dance by Barbra Streisand and James Caan, stars of the new movie Funny Lady, and to help boost the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation's Special Olympics for retarded children. The program provided one misstep after another for Today show Empress Barbara Walters, who stumbled on her way up to a stage and grabbed the first helping hand in sight. "When...