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The effect of all this is much less that of a musical masquerade than of a soulful affiliation of outsiders who share a taste for a strong dance beat and a sense of fun as strong as all that ganja Bob Marley goes on about. Besides roots, both Madness and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Ska Above, the Beat Below | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

Even before the opening credits, Jessica (Bergen) has kicked hubby Phil Potter out of their New York apartment and begun to sing. She sings like a gelded Al Jolson. Potter, a writer, ("my stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

Meetings with Remarkable Men is the hip '70s answer to Hollywood's oldtime biblical kitsch. Once Cecil B. DeMille re-created the glory days of Moses in glorious Technicolor; now Director Peter Brook is giving the same treatment to G.I. Gurdjieff (1877-1949), the philosopher whose Zen-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hot Air | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Wimpy shovels in the best burgers in Boston from Bartley's Burger Cottage when he's in town. Buddy's Sirloin army mess appeal attracts the likes of Gomer Pyle.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Elites Meet to Eat, Read and Rock and Roll | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

McCue--wimpy, paranoid and afflicted with a terminal semi-stoop in all his roles-- also directs Beyond the Fringe, without any noticeable problems. The only minor quibble, probably inherent with this kind of material (as in Monty Python and Saturday Night Live), lies in the skits' occasionally flat endings. Monty...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Fringe Benefits | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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