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...times, Hubley handsomely transforms these ideas into images. His colors are pale and wash across the screen like slow surf in the moonlight; yet here and there in the watery depths, a point of richer color burns for an instant like a brilliant fish. Early in the film he engineers a spectacular ballet of electrons; later he pictures a cluster of great galaxies that lie asleep in space like a nest of glimmering, immeasurable crabs...
That ultimate audience dwells some where between Malibu Beach and Despairsville, a spot where life is cursed by school trouble, girl and boy trouble and car trouble. When they climb out of the surf, the songs are addressed to such matters as poverty, suspicion, ill health and the Oedipus complex. Such numbers as Six Months with My Mother (Six Months with My Dad) are willing to go right into court in pursuit of genuine grief...
Propelled by winds that gusted up to 100 m.p.h., the flames hedgehopped spiny ridges, leaped from tree to tree, jumped across streets from rooftop to rooftop. "It sounded like a locomotive," recalled a terrified homeowner, "like surf battering a shore, snapping, crackling and popping...
What Fish Swims in Surf? Manhattan's other two discotheques are clubs. At L'Interdit, in the Gotham, the atmosphere is bistro-red-walled, checked-tableclothed and dark. The crowd there is young. Members under 35 pay $50 initiation and yearly dues; over 35, the tab jumps to $100. II Mio, in Delmonico's, makes no concessions to youth; the figure is $100 for everybody over 21. II Mio, which calls itself a discoteca, takes fewer chances of slipped disques; the music is almost possible to talk to-a situation that disgusts a gentleman called Killer...
Killer Joe should know. A lithe, electric homunculus, he is Diskville's No. 1 dancing master, a hierophant of the subtle shades of difference between the Chicken and the Bird, the Surf and the Fish and the Swim, who has welcomed many a Big Name (Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, Hoofer Ray Bolger, Sybil Burton) to his unpretentious walk-up studio in Manhattan and makes about 30 trips a year to cities around the country to show dancing teachers how it's done...