Word: tina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometime back in 1960, the Rolling Stones were in Los Angeles and decided to catch the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. They did and-presumably-were knocked out. They convinced Ike and Tina to go to England with them, thus beginning a friendship which unites several of the most influential forces in today's pop music...
England paid enthusiastic attention to Ike and Tina, as it was paying to so many black American musicians. The Turners met British rock stars, such as Eric Clapton, whose knowledge black bluesmen was thorough-far more thorough than that of most white American musicians. The Beatles and the Stones were taking their inspiration from the songs of Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry-and making no secret of it. In a matter of time, American youth got with it and began reconsidering certain lines of prejudice, such as that between Pop and Rhythm-and-Blues, or between black...
...Tina and B.B. King are not the same thing at all. B.B.'s place in today's music is inviolable but categorically narrow; Ike and Tina's act is a continuously evolving blend of elements old and new, black and white, musical and visual. The Turners' primary concern is not with trail-blazing, either, but with perfecting the art of entertainment. Their roots lie, if anywhere, in the club circuit they used to tour ten months out of every year, playing to crowds that expected an all-out effort. Straightforward, rough, and frantic, Ike and Tina and the Ikettes made...
...like and Tina Turner concert in the Stadium, State police swarmed around the gates and mounted police occupied every corner. As soon as Tina Turner finished her set, she was escorted to her trailer by a phalanx of blue-helmeted troopers. The crowd howled in dismay. Purse-snatching and muggings increased...
Every character in the script is a clumsy caricature, so there is not much the actors can do. Carrie Snodgress is good enough as the bedeviled Tina, and Frank Langella contributes many moments of force and subtlety to his boisterous role. But Richard Benjamin, one of the standouts of Catch-22, takes a giant step backward. The part is a ludricrous stereotype; Benjamin plays it-or is directed by Frank Perry to play it-like a buffoon...