From: dankaye@nowhere.info   
      
   This is an excellent documentary! Although I had of course read about   
   Brian's illness, I'd never quite seen it at work. Here, you see just   
   how out-of-it Brian can get, and it's so obvious that he is at times   
   stuck in a very dark place; you can just see it in his face and   
   demeanor.   
      
   It seemed to me that the one guy in the band really made it happen,   
   and basically did all the work, and Brian was just there in spirit and   
   in-and-out of the creative process at times. Mostly it was taken from   
   old Beach Boy tapes, it seems, and then just learned from that, except   
   for the new parts. Which is not to denigrate it in any way, it's still   
   a great work of art. But I was just surprised and disappointed to see   
   how tenuous Brian's "recovery" is, and how he really was still very   
   messed up and not always a part of the proceedings of the   
   reconstruction of "Smile" - or so it seemed in the documentary.   
      
   But it was certainly a triumph for Brian nonetheless, and it was great   
   to see him get through it and come out the other side with a "Smile".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)