Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your kids'll love the brightly-rendered numbers. They'll lap up the showy costumes, the stoogery, and the cake and cookies at intermission. You'll go for the minor liberties they've taken with the score--"a linnngering death: boiling oil or.... New Haven"--revel in its recollection of your own high school Nanki-Poo, and purr contentedly that the whole thing is confederate with your old, scratchy D'Oyly Carte recording...
...kinetoscope, cascading through the same wistful images at the drop of a penny-word. Amanda mothers her children, Tom and Laura, with the artifice of a rebel Donatello creating paens to an obsolete god of refinement and good living. Deserted by her husband, "a telephone man who fell in love with long distance," she is a "Christian martyr," a saintly hen, a charming and troublesome relic...
...rack. Rydell explores her relationships with Rudge, her grubby English manager (Alan Bates), with her sexist, drugged-up back-up band, and finally, with her voracious audiences. As long as Rose remains the archetypal star, both blessed and cursed with a great voice and an even greater need for love, the film succeeds...
Matos asked the audience to form a committee to work for the release of political prisoners in Cuba. "Young students inspired by love of justice could do much for the men who remain suppressed in the Cuban jails," he said...
Sanchez has his own line on the Stones: they are not nice people. His Jagger is a megalomaniac trampling over his friends, even members of the band, to achieve millionaire respectability, a pseudo-hipster who never outgrew his banal suburban upbringings and mother-love. His Keith Richards is a vicious junkie, a coward, a racist, a cruel manipulator. Richards exploits Sanchez throughout, to smuggle drugs or take the rap for auto accidents or whatever. Since he was paying Sanchez a grand a month to do almost nothing, it doesn't seem all that reprehensible...