Word: spectors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Directed by JERRY JAMESON Screenplay by MICHAEL SCHEFF and DAVID SPECTOR...
...herself a credit for "Musical Concepts," has laid on a score that is only supposed to give the impression of rock 'n' roll. Instead, it will probably put off her fans and cause undue mirth among audience members who know the difference between Paul Williams and Phil Spector. If Streisand and Peters condescend to the music, they graciously allow rock audiences the chance to cheer for true genius. A concert sequence, where the debuting Barbra brings a hostile rocker audience to their feet with the wonder of her funkiness, is a milestone of piquant absurdity, equivalent, perhaps...
...because it was an epiphenomenon itself, sort of unconventional, just like the people and stories it covered, and the best of its practitioners was Tom Wolfe. When Wolfe wrote about stock car racers and the good ole boys around them, or Las Vegas with its plasticine madness, or Phil Spector, his was the most accurate stuff around, because he had the sense that what he was describing was now and new and likely to last about as long as confetti after a parade...
...hear a string bass, and I hear a trumpet," and, according to Landau, "that was it." Finally the album came together as real roadhouse rock, made proudly in that tradition. The sound is layered over with the kind of driving instrumental cushioning thai characterized the sides Phil Spector produced in the late '50s and '60s. The lyrics burst with nighthawk poetry...
...Philadelphia district attorney. Arlen Spector propose to attack the problem of homosexual rape in local jails...