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...less disturbing subject matter, consider the other elements of Welcome to L.A. that commend the film to your moviegoing attention. Firstly, not every character flounders through life in the throes of utter despondency. The exception appears in the form of the superstar vocalist Eric Wood, played by Richard Baskin (who also wrote the scores for Welcome and Nashville). He serves the function of being the token enigma in the cast, providing a refreshing contrast with the honesty-chic psychobabble of the Los Angelenos. Rudolph deliberately made no effort to flesh out the character, to probe his innermost feelings. The viewer...
...piece on a film partly about music would be complete without some reference to the soundtrack, and Baskin's score makes the task easier. While most of the songs sound like a second-rate version of Laura Nyro with a jazzy twist and a male voice, the occasional poetic outbursts in his lyrics do draw attention. Baskin seems to be treading on all too familiar ground...
...words read better than they actually sound in the film, and unlike many of the movie's other aspects, the lyrics are not what you'd call accessible. But the musings of Baskin do ring true, and you suspect that if Baskin is not a native of the Southland, his experience with the L.A. scene has been both thorough and bittersweet...
...fresco of L.A. set over the course of a recent Christmas time, sweeping across the people who come and go, get stuck, stay. The plot-a nicely engineered collision of characters, all of whom are somehow related-is framed around a wound-up musician named Eric Wood (Richard Baskin) and his flailing efforts to finish a record album. Wood's music bears all the other characters along. Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), who wrote some of the tunes that Wood records, is an itinerant composer called back to L.A. by his agent (Viveca Lindfors) at the request of his businessman...
Although "purple mountain majesties" and "amber waves of grain" are important aspects of our national heritage, what would America be without Disneyland, Baskin-Robbins or the buffalo burger...