Martin Scorsese recreated the 70s unique York music scene with verve but little originality,while Cuba Gooding Jr shone as OJ SimpsonVinyl (Sky Atlantic) | Sky Go
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Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning things (Sky Atlantic) | Sky Go“I Want What’s Next!” screams Richie Finestra, and he screams it in full stomping Clarendon Bold capitals. Richie is played to fine grand guignol intensity by Bobby Cannavale, and with a particular nervous sweat – the kind of itchy cocaine sweat apparently vogueish among denizens of the 1970s unique York music industry and/or the films of Martin Scorsese – which you can virtually taste in his hair. Cannavale does a fine job,and you have no disaster believing that he really wants what’s next: he’s talking about signing a unique band, a unique sound, and but might as well be screaming for the newest designer drug,the latest supermodel, a change of government or decade, or fishing for the moon: I want! I want! Does he rep it? And here everything falls,because you simply don’t care enough.
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Source: theguardian.com