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...work and his children attack him with lines like "You can't hit me, you're a liberal humanist." The only comedy to venture out of the house this season is CBS's hourlong Stir Crazy, based on the phenomenally successful 1980 movie starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The pilot episode is cluttered with subplots and juvenile slapstick. But the show has a pair of appealing stars (Larry Riley and Joseph Guzaldo), brisk direction and more laughs than at least half of the teen films released last summer. Stir Crazy's challenge, like that of all the network newcomers...
...science-fiction films like The War of the Worlds (produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian Billy Wilder) or the sleek thrillers of London-born Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn, from Belgium, was crowned princess of the box office; Cary Grant, from Bristol, was still the monarch of masculinity. Everyone was so assimilated that you couldn't spot the immigrants without a security check. American films, once an obsession...
Kern's itch to change and perfect is the mark of a meticulous craftsman. It is genius, though, that etches his tunes in the memory. Composer Alec Wilder, in his 1972 study American Popular Song, singled out Kern for exemplifying "the pure, uncontrived melodic line more characteristically than any other writer of American theater music." To listen to a Kern tune like They Didn't Believe Me is to realize how elegantly it obeys the laws of melody and mathematics: each succeeding phrase is both surprising and inevitable. In that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from...
...track of her mother's whereabouts by reading Variety. Clay and his pals party nearly every night and do dope while cruising through some of the city's most expensive homes and restaurants. As Clay's month in L.A. draws to a close, the collective search for thrills grows wilder and nastier...
Depeche Mode rips the guts out of Modern Love, and the Modern Love Ballad, by distilling it into its purest form. With a voice oozing tenderness, Alan Wilder sings...