Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Husky Alto. Drawing on pop's musical past, Savannah synthesizes the sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
...pulls down a hard dollar as a bail bondsman and indulges in much gruff whimsy during working hours. "What's the good word?" a gangster client asks him innocently. Alex pounces: "Sunset is a good word. Pretzel is a good word." At last, the gypsy stirring in her soul, Maritza jumps the bail that Alex has posted for her assault rap and heads for Mazatlán in a private plane, accompanied by a rich gent with a lickerish eye. Alex, who has spent most of the movie trying to keep Maritza under both bond and bondage, decides that...
...Bother Me, I Can't Cope, is a musical and revue about, among other things, love, and involving soul, rock, folk, blues, gospel music, calypso and swing, to mention a few. Sound impressive? It is. It is playing Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 and 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., Boston...
...aspirant from Georgia, for all that he says, remains an enigma. Such was bound to happen perhaps, especially in a culture that has reduced the human soul to the simplicities of a McDonald's hamburger...
Ever willing to clutch at straws, movie people have been more than anxious to clutch at the hairy hide of the wonderfully exploitable gorilla who is not only house-high but has a soul as well. Ever since production was announced, King Kong had the potential to be what the industry annually requires, a "big bopper." as they say in the trade. A genuine big bopper is something on the order of The Godfather, The Exorcist, The Sting or, to name the film most like Kong, Jaws. It should generate domestic grosses of $50 million to $100 million and, almost...