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There are many cooler places for them to do it. Most evenings a party evolves at Dottie's apartment. She moved there after her parents forbade her to smoke marijuana at home. The scene is right out of the '70s: a black light, a beanbag chair and an African drum in the corner. Pink Floyd is cranked up loud. There seems to be a curious lack of sexual tension among the 15 or so adolescent boys and girls, most of them from New Trier, sitting in a rough circle on the floor in the eerie light. No one necks...
...posed by the ordinary viewers: Can you turn QVC's programming into something approaching mainstream entertainment? After two years -- about the time it took for Diller to start up Fox's first night of network programming -- QVC was still an electronic flea market, selling flashy bracelets one moment and beanbag chairs the next. Clearly, most of Diller's creative energies were directed elsewhere. "When Barry went to QVC," says a business colleague, "he saw this mainly as the platform to do a big, transforming acquisition...
...diary," says a senior Administration official. "A thorough, compulsive diary. Fiske's got it, and God knows what's in it -- as if it isn't enough that we tried to off Stephens." One source close to Fiske says, "It's not the Nixon tapes, but it ain't beanbag...
From that moment, the traumatized boy acts deaf, dumb and blind; he responds only, and secretly, to the sight of himself in the mirror. Over the years he is molested by an uncle, tormented by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends with the mirror shattered, setting Tommy free of his autistic isolation. He flees home, becomes a tabloid curiosity and show-biz superstar. Then he returns to his family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment...
...rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World War II airman, had been reported dead. Over the years the boy is sexually molested by an uncle, battered by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. He remains serenely withdrawn. When the spell is broken -- when he re-enters reality -- he seems unmarked. "I'm free," he sings in the second act's stunning highlight, as he confronts his tormenters with confidence, not malice...