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...when a composer starts to write, indeed, he can use a little hustle. When Sergio Leone, in search of music for his new western, first met Morricone in 1964, the eager tyro whipped out an old photo of the two of them together as classmates at a Christian Brothers' school in Rome. Surprised and delighted, Leone remained skeptical of Morricone's abilities until the composer dusted off a piece written seven years earlier for an American baritone. That arrangement became one of the major themes in A Fistful of Dollars, and their partnership was cemented, even though Leone still likes...
This movie has a very simple moral: if, like tyro Word Processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne), you are young, lonely, naive and a resident of Manhattan, you must learn to live with the fact that the only safe way to pass your evenings is at home, dozily watching television...
...only hope that this is the reason Kilty allowed a ten-year-old child to play the role of Moth. Don Armado's precocious page. As Moth is a role comparable to Puck in A Midsummer's Night's Dream, it is not something one farms out to a tyro. Appearing in the same scene with a child is the trial death; an actor is either upstaged or dragged down. Though one hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution...
When Apollonia asked Prince-and yes, those are their real names, approximately-"Is there anything you can't do?" there was a lingering silence. A tough question to put to such a tyro. More silence. A fast career review was clearly in order...
After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eagerness as any tyro at his own first play. Most of them were dabbing their eyes, and for those who were not the impact of the picture was too powerful to talk about. Said Selznick of Gone With the Wind: "At noon I think it's divine, at midnight I think it's lousy. Sometimes I think it's the greatest picture ever made. But if it's only a great picture...