{"id":2456,"date":"2014-03-01T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2014-03-01T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T21:19:01","slug":"american-hustles-music-of-swindle-by-geoffrey-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2014\/03\/american-hustles-music-of-swindle-by-geoffrey-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"American Hustle’s Music of Swindle, by Geoffrey O’Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buck Clayton wrote that Duke Ellington threw parties at the Dunbar with “chicks and champagne everywhere.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bale and Adams fall in love to the strains of Duke Ellington, and dance while Jack Jones croons \u201cI\u2019ve Got Your Number\u201d; the hapless Cooper pursues his doomed amour fou as Donna Summer chants \u201cI Feel Love\u201d at Studio 54; Lawrence lip-syncs \u201cLive and Let Die\u201d in close-up as she boils with rage against her cheating husband; Bale and Renner seal their newfound friendship by singing along with Tom Jones on \u201cDelilah.\u201d The steady stream of Chicago, America, Elton John, Santana, Steely Dan, and Jeff Lynne tracks sometimes gives the impression of a Top 40 station playing permanently, inescapably, in the background of everyone\u2019s personal drama\u2014an impression quite faithful to the texture of urban life in the 70s.<\/p>\n

via The Music of the Swindle by Geoffrey O’Brien | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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