Word: benders
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There is no plot to Husbands, just a premise. Archie (Peter Falk), Harry (Ben Gazzara) and Gus (Cassavetes himself) are three reluctantly middle-aging men who go off on a bender after the death of a friend. For two days they stay away from home, drinking, horsing around, trying to forget. But the carousing only reinforces their sense of loss and their feelings of entrapment. In a final act of rebellion, they fly off to London, do some gambling, pick up some girls and discover that instead of escaping, they have only come up against another boundary...
...found in their work. But they have welded these borrowings into a considerable work that is their own. Tommy (TIME, June 22) was the first, flawed suggestion that rock could deal with a major subject on a broad symphonic or operatic scale. Superstar offers the first real proof. William Bender...
Echoes of this week's cover story on a country-rock group becoming more widely known-The Band-may be diverse and resounding. Says Contributing Editor William Bender, who wrote it: "The Band appeals to an intelligent segment of this generation, many of whom have tried the freaked-out life, found it wanting, and are now looking for something gentler and more profound. I hope we'll hear from kids all over the country." Senior Editor Timothy Foote predicts that there will be regrets that, though the story deals with rock in general, TIME "has not said half...