Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original. The lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin for an Elton John album Madman Across the Water. At no time did my client claim originality for the quote. Your reporter and, I must admit, I assumed that it was original, rather than a reflection of a song in a very disturbed young man's mind...
...years, from about 800 B.C. until the 1st century B.C. Who were these roistering, rambunctious warrior-poets, these so-called Celts? Contemporary Greek and Roman writers disdained them as crude barbarians, and the early Celts did little to correct the slander. Preferring to pass on their exploits in heroic song and verse, they left no written history or literature and, alas, many questions about their culture. But more and more Celtic remains are being uncovered across Europe, the latest one a remarkable burial site discovered this summer near the West German city of Stuttgart. From these finds the extraordinary breadth...
...months have gone by, and no such series has materialized. Instead, Moore has frittered away the time by trying to parlay an indifferent singing voice and nice legs into a career as a song-and-dance woman. Last winter she came up with a special called How to Survive the 70s and Maybe Even Bump into Happiness, a thoroughly distasteful blend of toothless social satire and Vegas vulgarity. This fall Moore unveiled Mary, a regular variety show in CBS's old Sunday-night Ed Sullivan slot. On Mary the star had the aid of some top writers and supporting...
...vocal characterizations by such English worthies as Ralph Richardson, Harry Andrews and Denholm Elliott are never confusing. The English pastoral tradition, both in painting and hi literature, informs the movie in a subliminal way that is very attractive. It even makes the largest miscue, a dreadful pop song called Bright Eyes sung by Art Garfunkel, almost bearable...
...exercise in egomania, Paradise Alley almost puts Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born to shame. Besides starring in the film, Stallone wrote the script (from his own novel, no less), directed it and sings the theme song. The plot, far too structurally ambitious for a novice director, is a cynical attempt to cash in on every '40s movie cliche not used in Rocky and most of those that were. Set in 1946, the story tells of three downtrodden brothers who dream of breaking out of Manhattan's impoverished Hell's Kitchen: a lame World...