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his career — a mixed
bag of small theaters, av-
erage record sales and
an adoring but limited
audience — is the career Peter
Frampton was supposed to have
had. It's every bit the journey-
man's life — on the rail between
obscurity and fame, known only
to those in the know, a life de-
fined by a commitment to travel
and craft — and Frampton is in
essence a journeyman guitar
player.
But early on, gods of fame and
ambition intervened in the
British musician's life. For a brief
time at the end of the '70s, Pe-
ter Frampton was the biggest pop
star on the planet.
Frampton Comes Alive was the
vehicle for Frampton's unex-
pected ascension. Still the biggest
selling live album of all time (16
million copies), Frampton Comes
Alive gave us three perfect pieces
of `70s iconography: "Show Me
the Way," "Baby, I Love Your
Way," and the cliche-filled "Do
You Feel Like We Do?" ("Bob
Mayo ... Bob Mayo on the key-
boards!") Frampton was sudden-
ly as big as the Beatles, yet ab-
sent a body of work that was as
innovative or enduring.
Instead of redefining himself
with smart moves artistically,
Frampton quickly made I'm In
You and starred as Billy
Shears in the truly horri-
ble Sgt. Pepper movie.
They were mistakes that
were lethal to his career.
Frampton has now released
Frampton Comes Alive II, record-
ed 20 years to the day after its
namesake. Again recording in
San Francisco, the band still in-
cludes Mayo on keyboards and
still assimilates Frampton's flu-
id, hard-rock guitar style with
pop hooks. This album chronicles
the best of Frampton's work since
1977.
When Frampton exploded in
1976, his enormous new main-
stream audience was unaware
that Frampton was already, even
at the age of 24, a road-tested vet-
eran musician. In 1968 he had
formed Humble Pie with Steve
Marriott; after five albums he
went solo, recording Winds of
Change in 1971.
The next five years were made
up of incessant touring, record-
ing and writing. Frampton
Comes Alive was merely a way of
collecting the_best singles from
his four solo albums with-
out the predictability of
the greatest-hits pack-
age.
"I think my best performance
will always come out live,"
Frampton says. "I tend to think
over things in the studio. My
memorable performances seem
to come when I'm just not think-
ing about it. So I am always pret-
ty much happy with the live
performance, and some nights
are special."
If it can't be said that Peter
Frampton has again been em-
braced by a large and adoring au-
dience, then this much is true:
Frampton has escaped being a
David Cassidy-type novelty, or
even a tired bit of nostalgia, by
continuing to do what he does
best, before and after he came
alive. El
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DSO
which takes a happier turn than ing too bluntly," as protagoni:st and
the original.
victim Hester - Prijnne (Demi
Despite a heavy-handed sym- Moore) puts it, and worse, for con-
bolism and an early love-at-first- trolling their own sexuality.
sight that ought to have alarmed
Here, the Puritans are a
malevolent bunch who
rather than aroused a 17th-
feel they must foist
century married woman,
MOVIES
their (family) values on
Mr. Joffe has extracted the
Hester and the natives
essence of
the story — the in their muddy town. You know
punishment of the rest. Ms. Moore is likeable,
women for "speak- although she doesn't invest Hes-
ter with much ambivalence about
Demi Moore:
her decision to carry on an adul-
Convincing.
terous love affair in an era
of moral hysteria. She also
In biblical times,
Encyclopedia says.
does a nude scene, for good
both Hester Prynne
Under Jewish law, it measure.
and her lover the
continues, the husband
Robert Duvall as her
Rev. Archie Dimmes-
could punish his wife manipulative husband,
dale would have been
and her lover, if he Roger Prynne, is evil in-
hanged, burned or
chose.
carnate, while Gary Old-
stoned, according to
But generally, the man as her lover, the Rev.
lover escaped severe ret- Archie Dimmesdale, man-
the Encyclopedia Ju-
ribution.
daica.
ages to convey a silent suf-
However, in those days, a hus-
"Yet, so far as the adulterer was fering equal to Hester's
band who committed adultery was concerned, it is probable that he steely defiance of the au-
not bound by the same law as his could always buy himself off 6y pay- thorities.
wife. If she was unfaithful, she would ing to the husband a sum of money
Naturally, everybody
have borne the brunt of the punish- by way of compensation," the Ency- suffers a whole lot less in
ment, which always meant death. clopedia tells us.
this version of the original.
"Adultery constituted a violation of
Other punishments of an adulter-
the husband's exclusive right to her, ess included the shaving of her head, -Julie Edgar
the wife, as the husband's posses- imprisonment and public flogging.
Rating:
sion, had no such right to him," the
-Julie Edgar Two out of four bagels
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he American colonists get
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beginning to the end,
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