Word: stardust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STARDUST...
...That 'II Be the Day (TIME, Dec. 16), Jim MacLaine had left his wife and child in a dreary English town for a stroll down the glory road. He wanted to learn guitar and get himself into the palmy world of rock 'n' roll. In Stardust, MacLaine finds success -more of it than he bargained for or can handle...
...British pop star) goes a long way on a modest talent. Some of his success is sheer luck; most can be traced to the general craziness of the times, when a boy from the north could become a crown prince on the strength of one good tune or two. Stardust picks up in 1964, and MacLaine and his group, the Stray Cats, seem modeled on the Beatles. They jump from being a bunch of good-time lads playing dungeons in Liverpool to the very top of the pops in a series of brisk scenes that capture both the suddenness...
...movie has yet shown quite so cunningly or colorfully as Stardust all the internal battles of superstardom. If it dealt as strongly with the personal struggles, it would be even better. But this is a film that captures surfaces: the high-charged energy of a concert, the languor and uncertainty that comes with getting it all before you have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork...
Druggy Melancholy. Stardust is brightly acted, especially by Hagman, Faith, Ines Des Longchamps, as a girl friend of MacLaine's, and Keith Moon, usually drummer of The Who, moon lighting as one of the Stray Cats...