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...were attuned to his wit, Bruce was a folk hero; today, he is a vague shadow known only from clips from the Steve Allen show or a line from a Dylan song. Now Dunster House's splendid production of Lenny brings back the caustic comedian to those of us who have heard we should admire him, but don't know...
...come quite a ways since that night at Sanders. Superstardom, its problems, liasons with Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, marriage, life of the West Coast, building a house on Martha's Vineyard, even a couple albums. It may be the flat Appalachian twang, or the dryness of his wit, but I think James Taylor sings his life better than Neil Young sings his. What it really is, is that he approaches, but never reaches, the bounds of insipidity...
...this was like the "parting of the Red Sea, which I now believe from experience." His comments on the work ethic would make a welfare loafer blush. "I have passed the whole of this year in uninterrupted lounging and pleasure," he once noted. His wit was irrepressible. Trapped in a drafty room at a party, he remarked when the champagne was served: "Thank God for something warm...
Until "Celluloid Heroes." It has none of the Davies whimsy or wit; it is the climax and statement of Everybody's in Show Biz, "I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show." Ray Davies returned to Muswell Hill, working class hero (more legitimate than Lennon could've imagined) wasting the worriless, painless celluloid life, "Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain-And celluloid heroes never really...
...cameras in hand set out to stand French cinema on its head But Truffaut never took that revolutionary temper quite to heart, and his traces of bitterness were always carefully wrapped in nostalgia. At his best--in Jules and Jim Shoot the Piano Player Stolen Kisses-- he manages sufficient wit and irons to keep this side of sentimentality. But of late wit has faded irony has lapsed and nostalgia has Truffaut all to her mawkish self I wo English Girls is not only a failure it is an embarassment...