FILMS: Stale champagne
By MIKE SHEARER Arts & Reviews Editor
Claire Bloom and her uniquely talented ex-husband Rod Steiger may have fallen into what I call the Liz-Dick syndrome.
Both, with many movie credits under their belts, have assumed that their talents can carry any script, but anyone who saw Liz Taylor and Richard Burton struggling through "Boom" or "Cleopatra" or any one of several other flops knows that acting talent alone cannot make a movie. Gregory Peck, one of Hollywood's finest actors, is likewise a dupe for a bad script.
"3 Into 2 Won't Go" starts no where and very carefully weaves its way through what might been interesting circumstances . . . to end up no where.
I usually have a moral qualm about revealing a movie's end in a review, but I can say with no moral hesitance whatsoever that all four characters in the movie simply walk away, separately, and I like to imagine that they all went to search for a new agent who could find them a good script.
I was so sick of the strained drama of the film that I kept hoping, fruitlessly, that they would all link elbows and sing a gauche finale. The Rockettes would have been a real treat at the end of this film.
I even wondered at points if I had overjudged the acting talents of Steiger who simply comes off like stale champagne. Judy Geeson (I think she was in "To Sir With Love") does the best acting job in the movie, but she is too little relief from the severe tedium.
Hopefully, neither Claire Bloom (who has done good movies) nor Steiger is going downhill. Hopefully, "3 Into 2 Won't Go" is the only moldy radish in salad.
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McLUHAN PRO AND CON, edited by Raymond Rosenthal (Pelican, $1.45)—The most popular philosopher of today may well be Marshall McLuhan, even though many, including some of his adherents, do not always understand him. He has addressed himself to the problem of communication more thoroughly than other modern figures, and has become a great target to throw darts at. Some of the darts are in this book, and some of the praise of the McLuhanites, too. The book is not a one-sided treatment, and it will be absorbing reading for many.
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For the last 15 years, Country and Western music has been a bland rehashing of themes created by Hank Williams, stagnant blue-grass (not that it isn't fun—it just never seems to be going anywhere), and urban schlock-rock (D-I-V-O-R-C-E, truck-drivin' songs, etc.).
RECORDS: As the C & W sound used to be
Then, three years ago, the Buffalo Springfield created a revitalized C & W that not only had catchy tunes but displayed great technical virtuosity. The Byrds (traditionally the first group to push new trends) came out with their beautiful "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album and by 1969 the rush was on.
But although these groups are highly successful (and fittingly so—their music is delightful), their art is at best only a pleasant distortion of true Country music (albeit a more innovative distortion than that of the Southern-fried gentlemen who crank out records in Nashville).
Which brings me to "Sweet Moments with the Blue Velvet Band" on Warner Brothers records. At last Hank Williams can rest in peace. The Blue Velvet Band treats its material (some of it by Hank Williams himself) like works of art.
In fact, "Sweet Moments" is the only album I know which doesn't have some flaw. Not one guitar lick or one whine of the pedal steel guitar is out of place
The four gentlemen who comprise the Blue Velvet Band Bill Keith, Jim Rooney, Eric
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