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Entertainment Weekly Article
Here's an article from the current issue of EW: Entitled:
"Set Piece De Resistance, Summer of Sam"
Although Summer of Sam explores the Saturday night fervor of a philanderer
(John Leguizamo) and the problems of an outcast (Adrien Brody) the soul of
Spikes Lee's epic is neither disco or punk. Sixty-eight minutes into the
movie is a bravura sequence set to the tremble and throb of The Who's anthem,
"Baba O' Riley": Brody purges himself with Pete Townshend's sound and enacts
a chaotic striptease; Yankees fans pop up in a vigilante mob, Bronx bombers
of the head-bursting sort; glee alternates with gloom; a guitar falls
cathartically to pieces; an overportentous street sign catches the sun: DEAD
END. This is an ecstatic four-minute tour of New York as teenage wasteland"
(Troy Patterson). I saw this movie and they do the Who songs proudly. Janet