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I guess that Robert Stigwood really got the message from Urban Cowboy’s sputtering failure as a megahit movie (at the same time its soundtrack was shooting on up the record charts); his latest film production, Times Square, is such a wrongheaded jumble of painfully-innocuous non sequiturs that I wonder why RSO bothered making it at all.
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Paper-Training Damned Dogs Now
TIMES SQUARE
Directed by Allan Moyle
(EMI/RSO/AFD)
I guess that Robert Stigwood really got the message from Urban Cowboy’s sputtering failure as a megahit movie (at the same time its soundtrack was shooting on up the record charts); his latest film production, Times Square, is such a wrongheaded jumble of painfully-innocuous non sequiturs that I wonder why RSO bothered making it at all. Except, of course, that too many American consumers are still too brainwashed to buy a good collection of rock ’n’ roll (which the Times Square soundtrack happens to be) on its own merits. They still have to be prodded by those hip lackeys at People to get their new music only through participating in . some grandiose bullshit cultural EVENT. Like when Saturday Night Fever made disco safe for every family-hour family room across the country, thereby sealing off the end of that scene with a megaplatinum kiss.