'Harry and Tonto,Jnicest experience Gap Band about be his and he may not yet. It's a touching work that delightful "The strangest thing always peers Greene being old is that all your friends are know some of them for more than a depends on feeling and fine Review by Meg dead." day, but he has his friends. performances from a host of actors Before the Gap Band ed in found themselves under So says the aging, gray-hair- But Harry's statement still has a varied characterizations. Combs Art of truth to it because it Varied characters Leon Russell's leadership, Harry (played by ring points were to Carney) in Paul Mazursky's new out, if not the rejection, at least the Art Carney is nearly perfect as they beginning and Tonto". Harry Isolation of the old: For Harry it's Harry, as arc Ellen Burstyn, as his establish themselves as an movie, "Harry and soul is a lonely but content New Yorker not so much an interpersonal daughter who loves him but up coming group. who lives in a small isolation since he has a complete- doesn't really like him, and Joshua "Magicians' Holiday" dingy to be a apartment and who spends most of ly captivating personality as it is Mostel (Zero's son) as a grandson proves testing his time and having an inner, more feeling of vowed to silence on a spiritual kick. round, f nothing else, shopping personal or sounds and one-side- d conversations with loneliness with himself. What this As for Chief Dan George, who has different It Tonto, his 1 1 year-ol- d cat. a brief part as an aging Indian styles. unfortunately Harry has a lot of spirit left in lukow medicine man: if his part was any ends on a rather precari- him, but no motivation. It's only bigger he would have stoien the ous note, leaving one after he is forcefully evicted from geg show. wondering just where the his soon-to-be-torn-do- apart- !n Harry's New York, Mazursky band plans to go from ment that he comes, once again, shows the aged as feeble dodder- here. into his own. He becomes an ing relics, who may carry a roll of Drawing influence from movies says best is that while old toilet paper around with them, lose Sly Stone's avant-gard- e overnight existentialist, moving ' from city to city, living with his age can be an active, fulfilling their dentures when they are boogaloo to Billy Pres- relatives from New York to Holly- experience, it is also a one-wa- y mugged or worry about over ton's quasi-spiritu- al wood, and having a wonderful time street that gets shorter every day. excitement and heart attacks when sound, the Gap Band in between. We will never be able to remember watching Ironside on TV. Everyone boasts a strong, consistent "Harry and Tonto" is a marvel- what it was like to be old; we !i only talks about their long dead spous- beat intertwined with ous octogenarian odyssey, a string be able to look back on what it was es, their lost virility or their first soulful musical interludes. of beautiful moments, both happy like to be young. affair. All eight musicians strive and sad, all flowing together to Director Paul Mazursky's film For most of our aged, "Harry for and succeed in putting create the nicest experience of the career has been somewhat of a and Tonto" doesn't present a very forth good music, with the fall movie season. surprise since the release of his realistic outlook, but would to God core of the group seeming Harry's friends first big success of the late '60s, that I have Harry Combs' attitude to be Charles Wilson, Actualiv. Harrv's friends are not "Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice". when I reach that point on this keyboard and lead all dead. That statement was one of Instead of sharpening the force one-wa- y' street. It's a marvelous vocalist. self-pityin- disil-illusionme- nt harmoniz- the few g, sentimental behind the movie's moral movie, sentimental and touching, The band's a for lapses for the congenial Harry, and and biting satire, yet unburdened by excesses of any ing vocals are delight the movie doesn't concede to those Mazursky's touch has softened. He sort. The more I think about it, the the ear and the album brief melancholy feelings. Harry has since made the tame, but kinky more I like it and considering some overflows with energy and has many friends, be they hippie, "Blumein Love" and now "Harry of the other pablum we're being a zest for the music the hitchhiker or hooker. They may not and Tonto" is his mel lowest work fed these days, it is a huge favor. v Gap Band plays. Russell even manages to stick his " " into a of 1 , 7" HP fingers couple "Tj be- -- songs, alternating : tween guitar and synthe- J ) sizer. 4 At rate, it is to be , v.,.- - I any VVv i'3 J hoped that the Gap Band r "7 V will not be caught up in Russeli's schizoid musical K changes. They can cer- tainly handle it without ' him. 1 " ! ' t ' v kt : Jljifc v ; t rj-- 1 I - sz, ' i : ' ' r M ' . .Mahangar': , J f. v i Indian ideas a Film arrival permitting, this week's Foreign Film c will be "Mahangar" (The I I Big City), a 1964 film ... made by noted Indian director In " Satyajit Ray. : V - t the film exercises his ' ' Ray t gift for wistful comedy-dram- a to make some of the recent changes of customs, manners and thinking in the Indian iiu'- middle class under- '.it - Bm standable.

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