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THE RETRIEVER APRIL 14, 1987 PAGE 3 ENTERTAINMENT "Louder Than Bombs" might catapult The Smiths to stardom by Annette Lepore unusual for tunesmun jonnny Marr. sound. The theme is cool, breaking up comment on the angry, wasted energy featuring Kirsty Maccoll (who is Smiths. It contains the second best The vocals are classic Morrissey, and the monotony and escaping the de- of adolescence. super in her own right) on backup lyric ever written: "The sun shines out The new Smiths album,"Louder he doesn't wait long to treat us to his mands of a boring world by stealing. Another song receiving a fair vocals. It condemns idleness and use- of our behinds/No, it's NOT like any Than Bombs," could be just the thing trademark yodel. The deadpan phy- Another song, "London," is a truly amount of media attention is "You lessness, and in a bizarre twist con- other love/This one is differeni/ to catapult this incredible British sical violence celebrated in last year's discordant song, hard rocking and Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby," a trasts love and the Bomb, a neo-hippy because it's us." It is almost a tradi- band into progressive super-stardom. The Queen is Dead is continued here noisy to the point of confusion. Mor- sarcastic song mocking the older gen- philosophy not heard of since the tional love song, but no, Morrissey It's got a bit of everything, Morrissey's and throughout the album. Like, rissey's voice is almost lost, illustrat- eration's stock line, "when I was your 60s. would never try to get away with that. dense and evocative lyrics, some ex- "...you can break my face/but you ing a man lost in the loud, angry city. age..." and similar parental non- "Golden Lights" is a fabulous song "Asleep" ends the album, a fairly "Panic" is a good follow-up, noting perimental music and almost all of it won't change the way I feel/'Cause I sense. featuring (like several other Smiths straightforward melancholy lullaby majorly accessible. love you. "A true romantic state- how the music of today is no kind of "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable songs here and elsewhere) a deliberate wherein Morrissey limits himself to ment. It's an impressive double album set. reflection on what's going on today. Now" is a song that received attention sexual ambivalence that seems almost only one reference to suicide. culled from The Smiths' activities of The second song, "Sheila Take A "Hang the DJ," sings Morrissey so years ago when Hatful of Hollow was commonplace by this point. Written Morrissey really takes himself and the last 6 years, including lots of stuff Bow," contains words that might be irresistably that even you pacifists released. It's an excellent song with by Twinkle, it is the only song here not his lyrics to the limit this time. Tack- from that classic import, Hatful of applied to Morrissey himself, "How would have to agree. cool guitar and a great hook. To quote written by Morrissey and Marr. Tel- ling ideas like hope/no hope, sex Hollow. Here are some of the high- can someone so young/sing words so "Girl Afraid" chronicles a would-be the best lyric ever written: "I was ling a tale of a family forgotten by a without love, life without sex, death lights: sad?" necking session between two kids that looking for a job, and then I found a brother now famous, it was a good with love and no love at all, he im- "Shoplifters of the World Unite" is thwarted by their conflicting desi- job/And Heaven knows I'm miser- choice for the only non-original. merses himself in tales of a painful and The first cut, "Is It Really So has already garnered major airplay as res. Caught between wanting and us- able now." The fourth side starts off strongly Strange?" has an almost bluesy-rock lonely modern world. This album, a single on WHFS. It's pretty interest- ing, they are jaded and unhappy be- The first song on the second disc, with "Hand in Glove," a song already however, is a stylish and artful flash of sound, with a twangy guitar that's ing musically, with a great guitar fore they even do anything. It's a sad "Ask" is a love and action anthem released here on the debut album The brilliance in this dark world. Edwards' Blind Date is a bloated, lifeless attempt at comedy by Paul Grden brother. The only stipulation is that to defend Walter in court. David, his collaborations with Peter Sellers bar brawl, people falling in swimming cess. He is too reserved, seemingly his date, Nadia Gates, is not to drink however, agrees only under the condi- in the Pink Panther films, but much of pools, and golf balls hitting people in afraid to make a mistake in his film Going to a movie is very much like any alcohol, because she will lose tion that Nadia marries him. Walter, that was due to Sellers' comic pro- the head. The film also includes a gag debut. The biggest mistake he makes, going on a blind date: one can only control. Walter doesn't take this who still cares for Nadia, then must wess. Since that time, though, Ed- in which a car is driven through a though, is not in his performance but judge its success after it is over. These warning seriously, though, and after a find some way to stop the marriage. wards has made a series of slapstick- storefront not once, not twice, but in his choice of Blind Date as his film two events are also alike in that they few glasses of liquor, Nadia quickly From the description of the plot, it styled comedies, with last year's three times, as if repetition is going to debut. both carry a low success rate. Blake begins to unravel, becoming puerile sounds as if there is some comic lamentable A Fine Mess being the make such inane excess funnier. While Kim Basinger, as Nadia Edwards keeps this latter tradition and impudent. Before long, Walter potential in this film, but this poten- worst of this crop. Blind Date, unfor- But the reason most people will Gates, can certainly act sultry and alive with his most recent film, Blind loses his job and his sanity as he tries tial is quickly squandered by a ple- tunately, isn't much better than A probably see Blind Date is because it attractive, she does not demonstrate Date, starring Bruce Willis and Kim fo contend with her antics and with thora of overwrought sight gags and Fine Mess, as both films fumble features the movie debut of Bruce much ability as a comic actress. At Basinger, for Blind Date is a silly, the violent outbreaks of her psychotic by an onslaught of banal slapstick. through old familiar vaudevillian sch- Willis, the popular star of T.V.'s Moon least the part of Nadia gives her the trite, and very unentertaining ren- ex-boyfriend, David Bedford, who Dale Laumer's script is at best tick as old and tired as pie fights. In lighting. The main appeal of Willis on opportunity to try something other dezvous. takes his fits of jealously out on mediocre, and even this mediocrity is Blind Date , much of the humor is Moonlighting is his tongue-in-cheek than her usual relegation to sexpot Bruce Willis plays Walter Davis, a Walter. In the midst of this disastrous pummeled by Blake Edwards' heavy- derived from humiliating pompons flippancy, which he unfortunately roles, but nonetheless she isn't able to young, overworked businessman who upheaval, Walter is arrested, then handed direction. Edwards hasn't stuffed-shirts, and cheesy busines- does not bring to this film. While he is do much with the part. must attend a dinner with his boss and bailed out by Nadia, who feels partial- made a worthwhile film in over ten smen, all of which are cheap and easy not really bad in Blind Date, he is not Blind Date is a bloated, lifeless a very important client. Since he is ly responsible for the events of the years, and this film proves to be no comic targets. really good, either. Mostly, he is not attempt at comedy which offers very unattached at the time, he agrees to a evening. Nadia also persuades her exception. Things aren't made any better when really there, as he seems to be intimi- few laughs for those moviegoers who blind date arranged through his ex-boyfriend David, who is a lawyer, Edwards achieved much success in the film includes such crusty gags as a dated by the entire filmmaking pro- have more than double-digit IQs.

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