One Trick Pony (MOD)

One Trick Pony (MOD)Jonah Levin knows what it's like to sit atop the world of pop music. But chart topping hits (as well as enduring marriages) are harder to come by and nothing he ever knew could prepare him for the skid to the bottom. Playing Jonah, the enduringly talented Paul Simon knows the musical terrain but scores in acting and screenwriting areas as well in this sometimes funny, always probing look at the intriguing starmaking machinery of the recording

obstacle courses and the mean streets of early `50s L

regales his audience with a tale of his daring in exotic lands

sophisticated cousin Florence (Alexis Smith) over the love of Lewis (Charles Boyer)

even after finding fame as an opera star

shocking the vestry

Lee Tracy (Hildy Johnson in Broadway's original The Front Page and slick publicity man "Space" Hanlon in Bombshell) adds Joe to his gallery of brash manipulators

here reprises his stage role of the drawling

unaware that Villanova is enroute and plans to deal with the thieves himself

Join the adventurers as they encounter a perilous array of prehistoric beasts

The Breakfast Club) while Al has become the boot-legging crime boss of Chicago

off-again romance with Johnny

But this movie shows he would not be forgotten