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Sandy Dennis as Teresa Phillips and Phil Silvers as Frank Foster are the outs. It is her husband. Bop Phillips played by Richard Mulligan, and his wife, Fiona Foster played by Bernice Massi, who are having all the fun. Frantic to avoid discovery of their adultery, Fiona and Bob involve the Detweilers to explain away nights spent on the town. Meek Mary and wiggy William Detweiler tiptoe into the confusion, unaware that they are being used as excuses by the lovers. Sin is fun, and in the end Teresa and Frank discover the truth, but not before the cuckoos have...
Most of rock groupie sub-culture is a direct descendant of the "band-chicks" that lived around jazz groups in the forties. The rock lexicon is almost completely derivative of jazz groupies. Plaster-casting comes from a saying out of the "be-bop" era, "Plate you now, cast you later." The word "rig" seems to have originated in the lyrics of the Delta blues singers...
They did not always understand the surrealistic lyrics Dylan then favored. Says Robbie: "We were used to singers who opened their mouths and went 'Whop-bop-bop-lu-bop,' but Bob decided to say something while his mouth was moving, and it was interesting to see how easy it came to him." What also impressed the group was the kind of music they were now making, though it was still loud and eruptive, like the life they led. "It was like a volcano going off." Most people agreed, including Actor Marlon Brando, who once told them: "The two loudest things...
...crowd erupts. The Stones launch into Jumpin' Jack Flash, the guitars driving. Jagger stretching out the syllables, howling notes much like the old Bob Dylan. At the end he cries, 'Are you having a good time?' The bad guy trying to please. Then Carol, bop-bop-bop-bop, a great oldie, good times at the record hop all over again. Jagger leaps about the stage, smirking, jerking, prancing, shooting pelvic thrusts straight at the crowd...
...Little Richard, 34, who powed them in '55 with his "Wop bop a loo bop ba lop bop bop-Tutti Frutti," is doing it all over again-notably last week in Manhattan's Central Park, where he ended up sharing most of his clothes with his admirers...