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...roads crazy with scooters and cows every time he needs to take a flight (from New Delhi, 300 miles to the south). And when you call his tiny office, you usually hear that "all circuits are busy"--or the five-digit number changed yesterday, or, amid a blizzard of static, you get cut off in mid-sentence, the only small consolation being that you are put on hold to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down...
...father commanded to sacrifice his child, an ark in a deluge, God's son betrayed and murdered and reborn. Ideal material for Martin Scorsese, as he proved in The Last Temptation of Christ, his mean-streets-of-Jerusalem story of a tormented Jesus. By contrast, Buddhist texts are static and serene, antidramatic. And the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the ultimate good fellow, not a goodfella. So what can Scorsese find to make his own in KUNDUN...
Backers of The Capeman, PAUL SIMON's much ballyhooed musical, are doing their best to spin away the bad word of mouth the Broadway show is getting in previews. Too slow. Too static. Too earnest. In fact, Simon et al. are busy making cuts and changes. He's also writing a new number for star RUBEN BLADES and trying to give the show a much needed boost of energy. Director and choreographer MARK MORRIS is still in charge, but such old hands as MIKE NICHOLS, British director NICHOLAS HYTNER and Simon's buddy LORNE MICHAELS have been called...
...course, there's also "Summertime," the first single on Static and Silence and "that song" everyone brings up when the Sundays are mentioned. "Summertime" has a contagiously hummable chorus but completely indiscernible verse lyrics, which is a shame because, as the most upbeat and melodious of the album's songs, the track is also one of its deepest and most poetic. It begins by painting a honeymoon postcard picture, complete with a "romantic Piscean," an "angel in disguise" and a Poconos-style "heart-shaped hotel room." This image is then contrasted with the situation of those born into circumstances hidden...
...Static and Silence may not place The Sundays above comparison, but the album succeeds in changing the basis of that comparison. In fact, many critics are now comparing The Sundays to Van Morrison, who came out of presumed retirement time and time again with finely-crafted mystical masterpieces. Gavurin has remarked that the five-year hiatus, in combination with the opportunity to work out of their own homes, enabled The Sundays to experiment within their genre; he also feels that the Van Morrison comparison is accurate, because the product was well worth the wait...