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LV CD disappoints after inspiring film

Corinne Robinson | 07/17/1999

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Extreme nostalgia is the only excuse for buying this CD at the full market price, like I did. I even looked at the contents first and was extremely disappointed to see that only two of the eleven tracks were actually performed by the remarkable Jane Horrocks. In the film she sang more.Probably as an apology for this, the makers of the CD have actually added a couple of pieces of sound track that are not even mentioned on the cover. The immortal Marilyn's foreplay to Nabokov-tribute "My Heart belongs to Daddy" is one of them, though this doesn't actually come into the film, except for the remote metaphor of LV's love for her dead father. The other one, perhaps somewhat predictably, is the ultimate demonstration of the fact that some actors really can't sing, but that that doesn't always matter, as Michael Caine brings the house down with a haunting "It's Over" (Orbison) for which I would really like to give an extra half Star to the technical team for providing an echo that really does sound like an empty theatre. As an ex-Stage Manager I know.But of course M.C. isn't famous for nothing, as he lets us know by putting his name in front of E.H.'s in the film's credits. All in all the CD doesn't do justice to the film. But if like me you found yourself stupidly weeping when in the next shop in some random canned popsong you hear a lady singing her heart out, then perhaps like me you'll stupidly go back and buy this LVCD. 'Cos there ain't going to be anything else to remember this memorable play and film by, I'm afraid.Penny Henshaw"