Movie Music Archives #020: “Author, Author”
Plot outline: While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright (Al Pacino) deals with having to raise his sons, his stepdaughters and his sons’ friend.
I’m gonna guess that Pacino’s agent, after having his client star in the ultra-lurid “Cruising”, thought it best for Al’s career if the actor were to suddenly leap from exploitation to family-friendly fare. Whatever the case may be, “Author, Author” is the height of ’80s cinematic banality, and Pacino’s participation in it is more shocking than anything shown on-screen during “Cruising”. The greatest insult may be the film’s end credits song, “Coming Home To You”, which is “sung” by Michael Franks; upon listening to this song, you get the distinct impression that Mr. Franks had never uttered a note in his life before stepping in front of the mic to record it, for it is just a wretched, wretched performance. The lyrics don’t help, either. I do enjoy those wildly out-of-place disco drum pad noises that wander in from time to time, though –
April 10th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I don’t know…To me the song sounds not half as atrocious as Bret makes it out to be. Sure, Michael Franks’ performance (especially during the verses) treads a fine line between tendernesss and being too subdued but overall it’s lightweight snappy “stuff”, finetuned to appeal to a family market (as probably the movie it belongs to also was).
The song was composed by ultra-pro Dave Grusin, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grusin
And the NYT is nice and has an article about the movie and its writer Israel Horowitz in its free archives:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07EFD7123BF931A35754C0A964948260
October 17th, 2007 at 8:35 am
it fun ending they cut that ending .
of the kids cakeing , him .
play good music .on the sax
champine
then the cake comes.right in the face
the kids celberite that he made it fanily.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
it was a funny moive i like the cake ending with the kids doing the cake .in the face it show that thing are back to normal and he dont need his wife to help . him.
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