Word: maxing
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...guys playing the same bass line, four or five rhythm guitarists strumming away, two pianists playing the same chords in different registers, percussionists plugging away on maracas and castanets, a full symphony string section, and underneath it all the drums of Hal Blaine ("my five favorite drummers", according to Max Weinberg) piped through the galactic dimensions of the Gold Star Studios echo chamber...
That said, this is the one fall series most likely to inspire you to buy a big-screen television. The two-hour pilot explodes with a flashback to Max's escape from a government compound in a high-volume snowmobile chase. The script is mixed: the slang can be forced, the attempts at Buffy-esque humor sometimes fall flat. But it yields up one stunning visual after another--Max perched atop a decrepit Space Needle; nine-year-old Max holding her breath under a frozen lake; Max coolly wheeling Logan down a hospital corridor as an explosion silhouettes her from...
What holds this bundle of dystopian dynamite together is Alba's presence. She has the grace and moves needed for all that running, rappelling and cat burgling, but with an emotional range unusual among action babes. As the morally conflicted Max, she impressively balances toughness with a sultry vulnerability--call it testostrogen--and turns within a blink from cool to coquettish as she playfully spanks a hit man she has just decked. ("Come on--you're not even trying...
...then there's that look. Alba's Max simply looks like the future--a character who is literally the best of humankind embodied in a form that none of us can claim for our own tribe. Which, granted, may lay a tad much social import on a stylish, pumped-up, hellaciously fun comic book of a series. So let's just put it this way: we have seen the Woman of the Future, and she kicks butt...
...film The Sound of Music is getting The Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment. Viewers are invited to arrive in costume, sing along with every musical number as the film plays and comment out loud about the events on screen ("I'm gay!" shout several people whenever Uncle Max announces he has a surprise for the children). Some younger kids might be frightened by the spectacle of hundreds of New Yorkers, a few in drag, belting out So Long, Farewell, but as it did in the London version of this extravaganza, the giddy collegiality will keep most older audience members happy...