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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, April 21, 1972
Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Magnificent Ambersons. How-
ever I happen to think that the
change from the nineteenth to
the twentieth centuries was a
true change of eras, that Bog-
w e I i c danovich's metaphor of the
small theatre is pretentious
.Weekend'& t""i
whereas Welles' use of the car
dwas natural, and that overall
Ambersons was a helluva lot
Continue better film.
The Last Picture Show is a
(Continued from page 2) good TV show (another era -
now it would be a made-for-TV-
The Last Picture Show movie) and equally forgettable.
State Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bot-
Anarene, Texas - 1951: 1 toms) has the hots for the local
guess you had to be there at the rich girl, as does everyone else
time. I just can't get worked up including his buddy Duane
about The Last Picture Show, (Jeff Bridges). He discovers
though I can see why it's so som gl ovew
popular among critics and the of his high school football coach,
f -going public. It's simple and with the inheritance of the
narrative, no flash backs, no town's pool hall, he passes into
New Yprk style neurotics, just manhod da ch America goes
plain folks, a time when things Nice, linear, unconfusing. but
were simple. Director Bogdano- Nclnaucnuig u
vich, a critic and film histor- it didn't tell me much about
ian , has photographed it in friendship, love or the early fif-
black and white togive it that ties except that they had a dust
a c classic feeling, problem. Bogdanovich said
Which is part of the prob- "John Ford told me the two
lem itsinrtpoint seemsto most important things about
be that this is 1951, not sur- making movies are to make mo-
prising when you consider that noy and have fun." I wish him
ogdanovich has compared it all the fun he can eat.
thematically with Orson Welles' -Peter Munsing
Pretty Poison
Cinema II
Lorenzo Semple Jr. won the
New York Film Critics' Best
Screenplay award for his work
on Pretty Poison. Shot in Mas-
sachusetts, this 1969 film is a
psychological thriller directed by
Noel Black. Anthony Perkins
plays a quirky, sensitive boy who
gets released from a house of
ATTE TION correction and falls in love with
ATTENTION cheerleader Tuesday Weld.
(Sunday).
recordss
Wails and soulful coos
By AL SCHACKELFORD
A couple of albums that de-
serve mention here are Al
Green's Let's Stay Together (Hi
32070) and Howard Tate (Atlan-
tic 8303). Green's album is bill-
ed on the cover as "the Mem-
phis sound" and features drum-
mer Al Jackson and a couple of
the Memphis Horns, but t h e
Memphis sound has always had
more balls than this.Green is
just too sweet and breathy.
The hit title song and t h e
potential hit "How Can You
Mend A Broken Heart" are the
only cuts which are going to
make anyonehholler "Oo-we-ni!"
The second stretches success-
fully over six minutes, thanks
to Green's soulful cooing and
great syrupy background vocals
that are straight from Birdland.
Green's major weakness -
virtual bankruptcy as a writer
- is no problem of Tate's al-
bum. Atlantic stalwart J e r r y
Ragavoy shows a considerable
talent as an r&b writer, author-
ing no less than nine of these
songs.
While Tate has been around
and had the hit "Stop" a few
years back, he has spent little
time on the charts or in Amer-
ica's heart. He has a strong
voice, heavy on high-pitched
wails - hard, harsh soul, like
James Brown with a voice and
material, driven by a band that
includes the ubiquitous Jemmott
and Purdie.
Among the good things: "8
Days on the Road" sparks with
intensity, and you better be-
lieve that Howard has been on
the road back to his baby for
a. LONG time when you hear
him sing this.
The album's only fault that
comes to mind, other than the
inclusion of Dylan's "Girl of the
North Country," is Tate's oc-
casional lack of restraint, his
tendency to brutalize a song and
scream a
whisper.
lyric that needs a
A Tate composition entitled
"The Bitter End" brings this
winner to a fine conclusion. If
you've ever heard Sam and Dave
sing "If I Didn't Have a Girl
like You," you've heard all this
before: fickle friends, ' no job,
hard luck-and-troubles-but-a-baby
-that's-true. Run out and buy
this album to make up for all
the others that have been keep-
ing the Howard Tates of the
music world out of the lime-
light for years.
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