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...test for the fingers and a balm for the spirit. With a little imagination and manual dexterity, electronic keyboards can make otherwise struggling players feel like pros. Not like Horowitz, exactly; more like Flash Gordon auditioning for a garage combo, or one of those zoological enigmas who made spacey sounds in the Star Wars saloon. Keyboards can reproduce instrument sounds, even sample sound effects (from a rain forest to a barking dog), and turn any tin ear into a one-man band...
...about, although it's hard not to be bowled over by 20-year-old Tyson's exotic beauty, and Michael Caine as chief bad guy has never been sleazier. Simone's evil sadistic ponce turns out to be a standard slick pimp, and the tragic Cathy is just another spacey blonde waif with a drug problem--and with a hard-to-believe twist, as we discover at the end of the movie...
...Worrell. "Then I moved in with a guy. I was 15. Oh, my God, isn't that terrible?" At the suggestion of her parents, Arquette made her stage debut in Los Angeles at 17, then appeared in low- budget movies until her first big break, as Gary Gilmore's spacey girlfriend in TV's The Executioner's Song (1982). About that time she moved in with Steve Porcaro, keyboardist for the rock sextet Toto, whose biggest hit, Rosanna, was inspired by her. She now lives alone in the hills above Los Angeles...
Beguiling as those comparisons are between the extraterrestrial and Michael, the earthly, slightly spacey superstar, what may be most pertinently recalled about E.T. is the way in which the family's house was suddenly closed by outside forces, turned from a home into a hermetically sealed fortress. Spielberg talks about the "rage" he senses when he watches Jackson in concert, and the impression of angry release. Jackson, in front of an audience, is like a projectile?alive, explosive?that always returns, charge intact, to the chamber from which it was fired...
...external characters complement Dorsey, Michaels, and Kimberly enabling the other actors to perform superbly Teri Garr as Dorsey's spacey girl friend is consistently funny as she tries to hold onto Dorsey as a lover and an acting coach. Her wide eyed facial expressions belie her confusions with Dorsey's unusual actions as he tries to conceal his life in drag. Bill Murray as Dorsey's bemused play wright of a roommate gives a witty performance with his occasional wry comments. Murray remains detached throughout the movie as his character tries to humor Dorsey. Rumor has it that Murray improvised...