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Friday, January 25, 1974
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Fumblers Meet in 'Love and Pain'
By DON CREACH
Kansan Reviewer
Maybe I'm as immature as Walter. He certainly is that. He's also chumpy, slow, articulate, asthmatic and inept. He put the "u" in underachiever. And it may well be my failing that I can't enjoy and appreciate him. But I don't see much charm in his misfortunes and I can feel his misfortunes too keenly to laugh at many of them.
'Love and Pain and the whole darn
loving' is the best way Walter can describe
his love for his wife.
statement of what appears to be the best time he can expect to have in his life.
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS as Walter is as real as an "IF" on a report card. Although Maggie Smith as Lala lets top billing, it is Bottom's movie. Lala has only a few major roles in it, but she enlightens limbs and a schoolmarch praises that softens when she nettes her hair.
But she is also a looser. She faces her illness with weak poetry and a stern British resolve, which Walter mistakes for madness. She attracts only madmen and half-wits.
So it is inevitable that these two lonely fumblers should stumble across each other. That's love. And because they're so insensitive with love, they cause each other pain. And the rest of the whole damn thing is mostly picture postcard shots of Spain.
There were viewers who laughed at more parts than I did. And there were several parts that I laughed at heartily. That's one way to enjoy the movie. The only other way is to be able to appreciate love in any form it can take.
IN THIS CASE, it takes the form of mawkish knick, blankly enraptured looks, melodramatic gestures and childish overreactions. Is it beautiful?
Not to me. It makes me uncomfortable. I feel the pain more than the love.
I can understand and respect a person's right to incompetence. But I can't enjoy it, often that amounts to a weakness, an insecurity. You can still cook all over it so much that you'll spill. Cook all over yourself. Walter would understand. I would squirm.
Porno Novel a Waste
"MADAM ERIKA'S GIRLS" by Brisla Stevens (188 pages; Pocket Books, $1.25)
Did you ever have an urge to buy one of those sleazy-looking paperbacks at the drugstore? You know, the ones with titles like "Teenage Sexpot" or "Sin in Suburbia."
If so, repress the urge.
"Madam Erika's Girls" by Trisha Stevens (a pseudonym for Jack Pearl, which is probably a pseudonym for someone else) is one of those typical drugstore novels. It's the type of book you hate to let anyone see you reading.
However, protecting myself from scorn by putting a tristy brown paper wrapper on the book, I proceeded to read this story about a massage parlor turned whorehouse.
THIS BOOK HAS everything—sex,
violence, sex, the Media, bus, big business.
The plot, arranged masterfully around an obligatory bed scene every thirty pages or so, concerns an advertising executive who needs a manhawk massage parlor for tired businessman.
Oh, back to the plot. The greedy ad man makes a deal with the Mafia to expand the city.
The massage parlor is run by a beautiful Amazonian Swede, Madam Erika. To the horror of Western Civilization instructors she has seen in surmise is, you guessed it. Fromm.
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monster. His life and those of various other characters are destroyed by the sinful sex
Anyway you get the idea. The book is, of course, a literary wasteland. Probably the most interesting thing about this type of book is that despite all the tawdy sex, it is a "moralizing" work of literature in theirs in the end. That must be the "redeeming social value" of these turkies.
Artistry in Latest Album By Mahavishnu Orchestra
By JIM HUBBELL
Kunan Reviewer
"Between Nothingness and Eternity" is the best effort of the Mahavishma Orchestra since its inception and might easily prove the best album of 1974. The album is an important work in the provisional and compositional virtuosity unparalleled by any other group today.
studio work with such major jazz figures as Jeremy Steg and Buddy Rich, while drummer Billy Cobham and violinist Rick Clayton. He's also the jazz rock bands Dreames and The Jazzz.
"Trilogy," the opening cut on the album, is the best. It is a textural masterpiece, characterized by shifting time signatures and striking tonal variation. "Sister Annie," composed by McLaunlain, shows the group in a rock vein, while "Dream," the only tone on side two, begins with a tranquil opening theme that develops into an incredible guitar-drum duet and culminates in a memorable bliss defined by Cobblers' superior drumming.
The excellence of the band is due, to a great extent, to the varied backgrounds of the musicians involved. Mahavishnu John Lattin is one of them and has performed with musicians as stylistically varied as Miles Davis and Buddy Miles, and has developed a guitar style using everything from the standard Darian mode to an Oriental-influenced harmonic minor scale.
RICH LAIRD, bass guitarist, and Jan Hammer, keyboards player, have done
The departure of Cobham from the group may mean that this is the last album to be put out by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. But it has already been announced it is aifting last effort from the group.
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