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DIED. WALTER WAGER, 79, prolific spy novelist, whose books often featured villains bent on apocalyptic destruction and were turned into such movies as Die Hard 2 and Telefon; of brain cancer; in New York City...
...sound more computerized than crunk. But soon the album’s pulled in opposite directions by tracks like Charles Manier’s “At The Bottle” (whose post-Kraftwerk synths and four-on-the-floor thump sound made for anime dancefloors) and a Telefon Tel Aviv rework of Midwest Product’s “A Genuine Display.” The latter’s rainy fragility is the compilation’s wildcard, showing that indie introspection can paint hip-hop and tech-house rhythms as beautifully as ambient...
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...light of all this, there is something brave, if conceivably self-destructive about Telefon, which might have been subtitled 'The Last Spy Picture Show." Its creators do not attempt to palm off their Manchurian Candidate plot as something ripped from today's flaming headlines. The gimmick- a group of Russian deep-cover agents in the U.S. are mind-conditioned to sabotage military targets when they get a phone call repeating a triggering phrase- is seen from the start as a forgotten pre-détente plot that an unreconstructed cold warrior (Donald Pleasence) manages...
...generate much pace or suspense. There is nothing very interesting about the major characters either, a condition that leads Bronson to increase -if that's possible- his normal stolidity, while Remick succumbs to an attack of perkiness. Instead of winding tighter and tighter, as a suspense story should, Telefon just winds down, rather like - come to think of it- a phone call between two people who don't really have much to say to each other...