Word: tepid
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THOSE FEW important films that are also important moneymakers usually encourage quick, cheap, and successive imitation. In the sixties, the youth film and the tepid sex/promiscuity film became the obvious examples of such industry-wide stagnation. More elusive, perhaps, was the much wider range of films which merged violence with psychodrama after the model of Hitchcock's Psycho -- formula films where violence was often the only substance, films that Hitchcock wouldn't even deign to sneeze at. Exploiters like Strait-Jacket, the 1964 axe-murder movie, led later to box-office hits like The Boston Strangler (still playing in Boston...
Ross Russell's biography, "Bird Lives!", vividly documents the achievement and the tragedy of Parker's life. Unlike many writers who gush about jazzmen with little regard for facts, Russell remains temperate without being tepid. His style slips only when he reverts to a psuedo-novelistic form. Though Russell has unrestrained respect for Parker's talents, he nevertheless dismantles much of the myth that has grown around this genius of improvisation. Russell shows that Parker earned his place in jazz's pantheon by more than a shot of heroin. His talent was nurtured by hard work...
Judge Sirica has handled himself extraordinarily well in this foul corner. With a compromised investigation, a tepid prosecution and deluded defendants pleading guilty and seeking a bizarre martyrdom, the chances of a thorough airing of what and who was involved in Watergate seemed small. Now, perhaps, Sirica will be successful in ventilating the mess at least partially...
...model of Victorian decorum and devotion ("Never, never did I think I could be loved so much"). Their engagement was long and set about with squabbles over precedence and income that Victoria, as was her custom, eventually resolved with regal finality. Albert seems to have been sexually tepid, as Victoria apparently was not. His priggishness and diffidence, however, were compensated for by his immense marital devotion...
...Inspecter General. The Harvard Dramatic Club's latest offering has John Rudman imperanating the Inspector General and other actors impersonating the cast of Nikolai Gogol's 19th century satire on the bureaucratic life of czarist Russia. While director George Hamlin`s tepid orchestration keeps the production off-key, the general competence makes it at least hummable...