Word: williamsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then neither are the other motivations in The Jerusalem File interference from Pleasence and Williamson and several ominous appearances by the black sedan. The students drive across the dunes to meet their fate, and the movie ends as it began: badly. Raoul Coutard's photography, however, is very easy on the eyes, as is Daria Halprin, modeling the latest in kibbutz sportswear...
Donald Pleasence, as an Israeli security operative, wants Bruce to inform on his friend. Bruce's fellow university students, who appear to be mixing archaeology with target practice in the desert, want him to use Raschid to ar range a palaver with the Arabs. Nicol Williamson, as one of Bruce's teachers, warns him of the dangers of involvement. Whether Williamson encourages his students' books-and-bullets curriculum or merely abides it is never clear...
...tangible economic consequences. (Needless to say, it is an outrage that young, white bluesmen should possess such disproportionate earning power; certain old bluespeople are not even collecting their royalties on disputed copyrights for lack of legal counsel.) Actually, the idea is not new--the Yardbirds jammed with Sonny Boy Williamson years ago. What is new is the degree to which such superstars as Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood have subordinated their personalities to the style of the master. It is a labor of reverence, requiring both musical expertise and interpersonal sensitivity...
...what of the others? The Atlantic's Denby, free-lancer Brad Darrach, Saturday Review's Alpert, Life's Schickel, Playboy's Bruce Williamson? They're all likable writers, all riding home on their easiest talents, with little seeming to worry them beyond filling a page with sprightly opinionation--devil take the relevant focus. Film criticism has reached its premature middle-age, gaining pot bellies and pot heads instead of mature vitality...
...attempting to describe a musician's style, instead concentrating on tracing the man's influences. One begins to sense the intimacy of the circles in which bluesmen travel: young Johnny Shines journeying off with Robert Johnson: Howling Wolf learning to play harp from his brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson and later being discovered by Ike Turner; or the list of musicians who've passed through Muddy Waters' band, which includes Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Earl Hooker, Otis Spann and Buddy Guy. The names and anecdotes go on and on. For example, Chess Records...