C.C. Reader
On the Tracks -
Old and New
By James Soda
Group: Commodores
Album: 'Heroes'
This album is a solid follow-up to
their double platinum smash 'Midnight
Magic.'
'Heroes' is the Commodores' tenth
release since signing with Berry Gordy's
Motown Records in 1974, and although
it's not their strongest recording to date,
it continues to show the Commodores'
talented, multi-faceted approach to mu
sic.
The best cuts featured are: 'Got To
Be Together,' a fine uptempo dance
tune; 'Old Fashioned Love,' the first
single to be released from the album and
Middle Age Crazy: Comedy or what?
Campus Digest News Service
Sometime, somewhere during the opening
credits of MIDDLE AGE CRAZY you get the
idea that this isn't gonna be the wild and crazy
comedy you thought you were getting from the
television and newspaper ads. Maybg it's the
collaboration of Burt Bacharach and Carole
Bayer Sager that tips you off, or maybe that
the movie is based on a Sonny Throckmorton
song (based nothing, this movie's screenplay
comes straight from the lyrics). Whatever it is
that lets you know something's different, the
fact remains that MIDDLE AGE CRAZY is a
sensitive, serious movie at heart.
Bobby Lee Burnett (Bruce Dern) finds
himself turning 40 with a successful business
(building taco stands around Houston), a sex
ually agressive wife (Ann -Margret) and a pen
chant for day-dreaming. So here we have an
"Oldsmobile" man with a "Porsche" men
tality and what you get is middle age crazy.
It seems as though Bobby Lee Burnett is
THE GRADUATE's Benjamin twenty years
later. You get the same lost feeling from
Burnett as he seeks to avoid being "daddy" to
everybody from his family to his friends. It's
only in his daydreams that Burnett seems to
enjoy life, and he finds himself dreaming more
as the reality of his fortieth birthday sinks in.
The television ads use one of those dreams
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it's receiving strong AM and FM airplay;
'Heroes,' a fine ballad, with strong lyrical
meaning, is the title track; 'Jesus is
Love,' a hand-clapping, well-written
- song, featuring Lionel Ritchie's unique
vocals.
This album, produced by the
Commodores and veteran Commodore
producer/arranger James Carmicheal,
does not feature the strong ballads that
have been previous successes such as
`Three Times a Lady,' Still,' and 'Sail
On.' However, all considered, it is still a
good musical effort.
to push the movie, where Burnett is addressing
a high school graduation class. And the scene
is funny as he lets the class in on a secret...if
they really want to know what the future is,
just look up in the bleachers at their parents,
that's it. The problem with the ad campaign is
you get the impression the whole movie
revolves around one middle aged man flaun
ting society and its rules. In a way this is the
case, but not to the wild extent of this man's
dreams.
• There is no doubt that MIDDLE AGE
CRAZY has its funny, crazy moments, but
don't get too used to laughing because the
serious moments are going to catch you where
it hurts. Materialism, infidelity, shallowness
and a host of other human weaknesses are
paraded across the screen, complete with the
kind of rowdy language that you know Dallas'
I.R. uses all the time but not on camera.
Bruce Dern proves an able non-hero, again
much the same way Dustin Hoffman did years
ago. And it is good to see Dem expand his
horizons in such a difficult film to label. MID
DLE AGE CRAZY probably won't attract
much attention around Oscar time, but it's
well worth watching for the college crowd to
get perhaps a glimpse of the future. Bruce
Dem may well be the cinema guide in the 80's
to that future.
Thursday, October 9, 1980
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