Word: springfields
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...screaming pre-pubescent bubble gum crowd a Browine troop, and the popcorn roasting chestnuts over an open fire. Before the screening began last Thursday at the Sack Charles, a local dee-jay stood up front and called out the ticket numbers of the proud winners of a giant Rick Springfield poster. I looked at my ticket stub blandly What would my roommate...
Minutes later, Jamie (Rick Springfield), fleeing his bathroom, races across the screen, a company of excited fans not far behind. Outside his bathroom, a disgruntled song writer swings a broken wine bottle threateningly at Jamie's band, forcing him to flee towel-clad into the auditorium. Borrowing a pair of potato-sack fashioned pants from his assistant, Jame races off, his hair somehow blow-dried along the way until evidently traumatized by the ordeal of screaming fans clawing at his skin-tight clothes on stage and the real goods afterwards, he loses control of his car, totaling a vegetable stand...
...next 80 or so minutes Hard To Hold goes from concert flick to romantic comedy to a certain affected serious drama. Springfield's salivating pre-pubescent fans are left disappointed and the rest of us confused or bored. Not content to become just another extended music video, Hard To Hold has to tell us something. "It's rough being a star," Springfield says. "Everybody thinks it's just tits and champagne...
...Tony Bennett, or a close facsimile, Springfield delivers to her house that night. With a PG degree of details, the next morning Springfield finds himself familiarly unclothed but unfamiliarly rejected as Janet shows him out. "I think," she says, "it's best if we leave it at this." "We made love last night," he objects. "We had sex," she says. Bill Safire watch...
...inexplicable as her love for Springfield is, she periodically reminds him of his awful way of life. Without a single movement along the highway, she knows, as we all must now know, the tragedy of a rock star's existence. "How can you call a hotel home?" she asks...