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...George Washington of the movement," as another experimental artist, Frank Gillette, dubbed him at the end of the '60s. He began by emigrating from his native Seoul in the '50s, first to Tokyo and then to Germany, to study music. In Germany he met Composer John Cage, that perennially controversial guru of the avantgarde, and he was soon busily involved in the multimedia "events" and benignly neo-Dadaist actions of a European artists' group that called itself, for its commitment to change, Fluxus...
...Neal occasionally overcomes the film's limitations; his timing is good--though not his lines, which are penned by La Cage Aux Folles' Francis Veber. La Cage dealt with effeminate homosexual homebodies, too. But Veber fails to recapture any of that film's charm and wit. Most important, Veber presented the characters in La Cage affectionately. Partners is, if anything, mean-spirited. It doesn't introduce a single homosexual who isn't rendered weak-kneed or babbling by O'Neal's chest, eyes or "fabulous" thighs...
...Party Gone out of Bounds" picks up and you begin to lose control of your feet, you remember the summer of 1979. Jimmy Carter was still President, the Senate was debating SALTII, and Sky lab came plunging to earth in a whirling ball of fire La Cage aux Folles was a very cool movie to tell your friends about and Carl Yastrzemski got his 3000th hit. But most important this was the summer you first heard the song...
...visitors ran off three goals before the half ended. Jim Tully hit from inside and outside and Rich Mellone picked up an Edmond's mishandle in front of the cage and walked...
...Taylor Dance Company traveled to the hinterlands, people mistook the troupe for the June Taylor Dancers from the Jackie Gleason Show. The confusion ended at curtain time. Then, instead of metronomic chorines, the stage was peopled with muscular, disciplined dancers falling, posturing and accelerating to everything from Bach to Cage. Dressed as Elizabethan figures or satyrs in evening clothes, or in nothing more than bath towels, the company disturbed as many as it dazzled...