Blood, Sweat and Tears,
appearing Saturday night, April
3, at Pershing Municipal
Auditorium, is one of the most
famous of the- numerous
jazz-rock 1ig bands around.
They are considered by
many to be "pioneers in tne
field of jazz-rock, but are also
looked: upon as becoming
duller since the departure of Al
Kooper from the group.
Nevertheless, they had a
definite influence in the music
field.
In the 1969 Down Beat
Reader's Poll they were voted
the best- RockPopBlues
Group and their album, Blood,
Sweat & Tears, was voted the
second best Jazz Album of the
Year. In the 1970 Down Beat
Reader's Poll they again
captured the number one spot
as best RockPopBlues Group
and their album, Blood, Sweat
&Tears 3, was voted best Pop
Album of the Year and fifth
best Jazz Album of the Year.
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Fools - - sentimental romanticism, again
Review by
PATTY CULVER
Fools-a story in pictures of
Katherine Ross and Jason
Robards. A copy of Love Story
in which the script writer
didn't write one and the
camera man only owned two
types of lenses, so that is all he
used.
This movie should be seen
by two types of
people--sentimental
romanticists and people who
want to go to a movie and get
away from it all and think
things out. Everything but the
movie they are watching.
This show was aimed at
those persons who enjoy
Robards or Ross as individuals.
Considering they had no story
to work with, both people do
an acceptable interpretation of
their characters and do manage
to entertain the audience part
of the time with their
wanderings through park and
bed scenes.
Robards did manage to
overcome his "stone-face"
image in Julius Caesar as he
pranced around with his
Groucho Marx nose and
bagging boxer shorts. It was
disappointing when he climbed
out of bed from a supposedly
nude love scene and had those
same bagging shorts on.
Scott Hylands, Ross's
estranged husband in the
movie, gave an acceptable
performance with his inability
to lose. His character was
responsible for making the
ending believable.
THE ENTIRE "STORY"
centers around the relationship
of two persons, Anais (Ross)
and Mathew (Robards), and
the development of their
relationship. In fact, that is all
there is to the story. The
viewer spends two hours
wandering through parks with
these two and listening to their
speeches of love, life and the
companionship they share.
The author did attempt to
add some background about
halfway through the show and
has one scene that features
Anais' mother sinking into a
sandy beach. This viewer isn't
too sure how that applies to
the rest of the movie but it was
a nice symbolic scene in itself.
In fact, every scene is a nice
symbolic scene in itself, but
one gets tired of two hours of
symbolic scenes. It gave the
feeling that we were actually
watching a screen test for Ross
and Robards as the movie
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moved from one pose and
emotion to another, making
sure to capture interesting
angles and shadows.
THE FILMING WAS one of
the redeeming qualities for this
""masterpiece The
backgrounds and scenes were
well constructed individually
and the filming contained some
very pleasant and interesting
cross fades and breaks into the
next scene. The sets were a
compliment to the scenes,
especially the stark, cold white
of the house in which Anais
and her estranged husband met
as contrasted to the green
fields for the frolicking of
Anais and her lover.
It is difficult to critique
Fools because it is a
middle-of-the-Toad sentimental
chronicle of two people sharing
each other. There is nothing
drastically wrong with it if
you overlook its lack of plot
and story) and there is nothing
outstandingly good about it.
If spring fever has you, go
to Fools, and loose, yourself in
the forests and contemplations
of humanity. Then go home
and it will be forgotten.
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THE DAILY NEERASKAN
FRIDAY, APFiL 2, 1971