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...changes in the plot of Hemingway's novel. Then William Faulkner wrote the screenplay and Hawks directed with his tongue in his cheek. The filming was spontaneous and the plot got lost, bolling down to Bogart and his tough, sexy dame accompanied by Hoagy Carmichael and his honky-tonk...
...lyrics and Beach Boys numbers sets the tone for this segment of the nightly fare. John Kincheloe, twin brother of George, is a superb drummer who demonstrates his ability to carry the show with a driving solo on "Sympathy for the Devil." Cobb is the featured performer on "Honky Tonk Women," a number on which audience participation is encouraged...
ATLANTIC CITY IN THE FALL is like a whore house on Sunday morning, the denuded neon playgrounds of merchandising America. It is the ghost town of the Penthouse pleasure seekers stinking with the excrements of honky-tonk commercialism. The King of Marvin Gardens, written by Jacob Brackman and directed by Bob Rafelson, tortures Atlantic City's dying glory into a monopoly game of cultural dimensions, the bankrupt dead-end of the American dream...
...designing establishment a bit seasick. Dennis Lennon, who was chiefly responsible for the original interior design of the ship, quit after two weeks on the new project. "It was a national ship," he explained. "It wasn't something to play around with and turn into a honky-tonk." James Gardner, the principal exterior designer of the original, said of the altered superstructure: "We tried to give her lines a quiet dignity like the Mark III Bentley, but now lumps have been added...
...exciting for its greater freedom in execution. With sections of strings and horns building beautifully upon his musical themes, Simon produces a forceful sound surpassing any of the mechanical blends of trumpets and gravelly singing that pass for jazz on the AM Top Ten. The style ranges from honky-tonk, to Gershwinian melancholy, to high-energy, upbeat popular jazz, to barroom bluesiness more reminiscent of Simon's earlier songs...