Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROMISES, PROMISES is a slick, amiable and derivative musical based on the film The Apartment. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, but the rhythms of Burt Bacharach's score sound rather like sporadic rifle fire...
...Kanfer made a point of meeting his subjects-Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. "No matter how good the reporting," he explains, "it's important to find some things out for yourself. I like to get people's music, to see at first hand what they look and sound like." Kanfer visited the set of John & Mary, had lunches with Farrow and Hoffman, and came away with new enthusiasm for his assignment. Hoffman he found a "natural," Farrow a "supernatural." Cinema Reporter Jay Cocks, who spent a good deal more time with Mia, agrees. After at least a dozen...
...sound of success reached Hollywood and Director Mike Nichols, who was then casting The Graduate. Summoned to Los Angeles for a screen test, Hoffman took a day off from Eh? and arrived at the studio the next morning, he says, "feeling awful. And paranoiac. I was sure the crew was asking, 'Jesus Christ, where'd they get him?' Everything Nichols told me to do, I did wrong." At one point, to prod some life into a love scene, he grabbed Actress Katharine Ross's buttocks and yanked her toward him. "When it was finally over I apologized to Nichols...
...monolith on the moon. The music is not conceived stereophonically but, like a clever piece of audible op art, achieves that effect from its dense-textured 16-part counterpoint, which seems to shimmer around its source in concentric waves. As an exercise in the deceptive qualities of pure sound, it is an awesome tour de force...
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is the sound that a magic car makes in this slightly less than enchanting musical about a pixilated inventor (Dick Van Dyke), his two pixilated offspring and his pixilated girl friend (Sally Ann Howes...