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...seedy Manhattan hotel lobby in 1928, Hughie is an old-fashioned tale--even the clock on the wall ticks in waltz tempo. And Erie Smith (Pacino) is an old-fashioned gambler, a loser out of Damon Runyon. For Erie, horseplaying is a sacred vocation. "I'd rather sleep in the same stall with old Man o' War," he says, "than make the whole damn Follies." Down on his luck, he has the sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk...
...unreleased sides for veteran producer Jimmy Bowen, yet another relic of the rockabilly years. Five years later, she was starring in Always, and transcending the kitsch format (a fan recalling her brushes with Patsy's greatness) by interpreting 18 Cline songs faithfully and imaginatively; she'd slow down the tempo, tease out the vowel sounds even further, add an Ozark twang that you won't hear on Patsy's records. Now an ancient 20, Barnett has her own, self-titled CD (Asylum). It stands as both a votive offering to her idol and a discreet declaration of independence...
...time she died at home in Beverly Hills last week at 78, she had spread the treasure of her voice over thousands of songs and half a dozen generations, cutting everyone in on the wonder. There was something about her voice that glistened, that refracted off an up-tempo number like a sudden shot of sun or shone off a ballad like a sideling beam of moonlight...
...different. They have no discernible beginning; no one wakes up of a morning, looks out a window and says, "Uh-oh, here comes a long dry spell." Droughts seem deceptively serene, no more threatening than an endless expanse of blue, cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown lines on the corn leaves widened...
...exudes energy as the sensual Fitzpatrick screams "sticky and greasy" along to a driving melody. Deep meaning is hardly the main concern of listeners at this point. Continuing this innocent approach, the band breaks into "Serious Stuff," a wonderful song with a great guitar line, catchy chorus and unexpected tempo twists...