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...that he did best. As a director, he had a jet pilot's sense of speed and angle of ascent. Fond memories of his Bye Bye Birdie offer abundant evidence of that. His choreography could turn from the gliding thunder of tap to the vaulting grace of a waltz without missing a step. The vitality of such 42nd Street numbers as The Shadow Waltz-done just with work lights-Lullaby of Broadway and We're in the Money ensures that this show will not be a Champion memorial but, fittingly, an ongoing tribute...
What Dalton describes as her "waltz for the malt" style has enough bleary good humor and lazy musical charm that one could imagine it sung by both outlaws like Waylon Jennings and slickers like Kenny Rogers. Although she calls her music "progressive," her best songs are little nuggets in the rushing middle of the country mainstream. If Lacy's performing and writing are not of themselves unique, together they are formidable, a fact acknowledged by Billy Sherrill, CBS Records vice president and executive producer in Nashville. "There are a lot of good singers out there, but there aren...
...someone who would tell more if she only knew more. Pose or not, the stratagem works and the surface holds. People meet, get drunk together, exchange pleasantries or insults, separate, come to various bad or unhappy ends. Mobsters mix with writers, money is thrown around, beauty saves the last waltz for evil. All this is transmitted through a literary imagination clearly shaped by the 1930s. The wastrels and addled debutantes whom Hellman keeps bumping into could have been, perhaps were, created by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...even when he drops the subjective/objective technique, Schlondorff can be playfully brilliant. Following a sepia-toned clip of a Nazi rally comes a sequence in which Oskar's drumming turns the propaganda gathering into a waltzing Danube of Hitler Youth. As Oskar drums, the Nazi band picks up his waltz, a goose-stepping Nazi commandant adds a back-skip to his gait and a crowd of arms extended in "Seig Heils" begins to sway to the music. Aryan youths pair off to dance, leaving the SS confused and helpless...
...that his intelligence is severely limited. The last look shows the same coarse face, behind which lives the same crippled mind. It is not a miracle that occurs, only a transformation. But when Philly's voice is heard as the final credits roll-he is singing The Anniversary Waltz, with the tune strong and true and the words mostly nonsense -the audience applauds...