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Hunt came to Harvard in 1968, after retiring as a Navy pilot. The captain of both the track and cross country teams at his alma mater, Springfield College, he recalls being drawn to Cambridge because he was anxious "to work with young people again...
Like the recent Eddie and the Cruisers, Hard To Hold tries to convey the difficulties of the road life but only through casual rhetoric. The plot becomes more like a pick up line at each turn--you know, we really have a lot in common, she tells Springfield about her longshoreman father. "My father's an orthodontist," he says. "Hooray for the working class...
INSTEAD OF DEVELOPING any relationships, Hard To Hold approaches its plot as Springfield approaches his songs: taking a simple idea, dressing it up, and repeating it again and again. Evidently tired of kissing, Springfield assures his love, "I really, really, really care for you." Put it to a beat and tape the video, and Kasey Kason could call it Top 40 by next Sunday...
...complicate the socio-cultural strains, Springfield wrestles with the collapse of his long time relationship with his songwriter. Keeping her well outside his bedroom door, he rets that their songs no longer have the meaning they did when "we just worked for beer money." At last, the confrontation comes as Springfield smashes his guitar to bits. "We played a lot of good songs with that thing," she says, Symbolism noted...
...credits roll down the screen, no one would call for the encore the screen couldn't honor. Though dedicated fans still recovering from Springfield's exit as General Hospital's Noah Drake may leave fleetingly satisfied, not even a concert t-shirt could keep Hard to Hold from being unsatisfactorily easy to leave...