Word: canyoneering
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...play is an unpretentious and quite ineffective quick Flair pen sketch. The program is a jumble of mad typing the night before the opening. All the orchestra seats in the Loeb have been moved backstage so that half of the audience sits at the bottom of the breath-taking canyon-like flyspace of the theater, and they are encouraged to move to different seats during the performance. At one point in the second act, the curtains threaten to tumble down and enclose the backstage audience completely, only to creep sheepishly and mischievously back up again. During the intermission, the cast...
...western-movie vision of America. His best moment occurs when he acts out a favorite fantasy by clobbering Slim Pickens in a Texas barroom brawl. But when he turns up in the old fight-to-the-death on the edge of a cliff (this time in the Grand Canyon), with Perrine lashed prettily to a nearby rock, he and the film makers have to be kidding - only they don't seem to know...
Colonies of rock musicians were forming in the Los Angeles subdivisions of Laurel Canyon, Echo Park and Venice. Glenn Frey drifted in from Royal Oak, Mich. Don Henley was a North Texas State English major before he decided to move west. They eventually formed the supergroup the Eagles...
Before long, everyone knew Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, who had grown up around L.A. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills lived near the top of Laurel Canyon, Frank Zappa in an old Tom Mix house a short walk away. Browne and Frey and Henley had Echo Park apartments. Linda was in Ocean Park. Jim Morrison of the Doors was the most successful musician of the crew, and the hardest to locate, since he often slept on the beach near Venice...
...wasn't the Snake River Canyon this time, but Daredevil Evel Knievel came a cropper anyway. CBS-TV had signed him up for a live 90-minute mini-Jaws show: he was to vault his Harley over a 64-ft.-wide tub full of "killer sharks." On a trial run before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting...