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And Then He Wrote...
It's difficult to do a documentary of a creative artist who has been dead for almost half a century. People who knew Frank Loesser professionally are getting scarce and this enormously influential songwriter had few appearances in motion pictures. There aren't even more than a couple of TV clips in this piece. When it's someone like Loesser, it becomes even more frustrating: a series of artfully edited still photographed with a series of voice-overs narrating a story that becomes almost boring in its nearly uninterrupted row of greater and greater successes.
And that's what this documentary is: almost boring. On top of that, it's frustrating in that we never hear one of the great songs all the way through, just enough to identify it, from his earliest hit in collaboration -- "Heart and Soul" on.
It's good that they got these interviews recorded while the folks are still around, but this piece is just the groundwork for a piece that has something more to say than "....And then he wrote....."
And that's what this documentary is: almost boring. On top of that, it's frustrating in that we never hear one of the great songs all the way through, just enough to identify it, from his earliest hit in collaboration -- "Heart and Soul" on.
It's good that they got these interviews recorded while the folks are still around, but this piece is just the groundwork for a piece that has something more to say than "....And then he wrote....."
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- boblipton
- Jun 30, 2010
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By what name was Heart & Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser (2006) officially released in Canada in English?
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