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Homegrown Scores a Hit!  

(9/13/81) Times-Picayune







Sunday's "Homegrown" special starring The Cold is probably the best bit of local production ever to 
escape from WGNO-TV.

It helps, of course, that the main attraction is a musical group as accessible and exhilarating as The  Cold.   There is not only vitality, but attitude to their performance.  And their determinedly upbeat sound and voice blends are calculated to get the juices going.

On Sunday, they extend the spoofiness inherent in their stage theatrics to embrace outright comedy bits  - and do it surprisingly well.   Each offers a distinct personality and an assured - if not always polished - set of acting skills.

The performance segment was taped last July at Jimmy's Place and includes "Do the Dance" (with some of Barbara Menendez's more astonishing athleticism) a loud, parodistic  "Do You Love Me?" that is great fun, "Missing Hit Man" in a likewise 60s send-up vein, a "tribute" to Bo Derek ("Do You  Have a Mind?") and at least 10 other numbers.

There's a lot to like here, and it has been given a handsome production by David Jones and Bob Gremillion, the latter directing.   This "Homegrown" is good entertainment  and good television and one hopes - no, demands - more of the same.


- David Cuthbert


 
 



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