Word: chappaqua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most people, when they feel autobiographical urges, sit down and commit their story to the typewriter, or just talk to the wife, a bartender or a psychiatrist. Not Conrad Rooks. He decided to make a movie about himself. The result is Chappaqua, named after the Westchester County commuters' village where Rooks spent what he considers the only happy years of his youth (from 8 to 13). The film is an 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...
Rooks is an amateur at film making, and it shows: plot coherence is not one of Chappaqua's strengths. Nevertheless, he lured Veteran French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault into playing a key role as the sanatorium's head doctor, and persuaded Sitarist Ravi Shankar to write a vibrant background score that often deservedly moves into the foreground. The film is otherwise peopled by a random collection of the current cool, including Novelist William Burroughs, Poet Allen Ginsberg and Jazzman Ornette Coleman in bit parts...
Died. Thomas F. ("Tommy") Manville, 73, heir to a Johns-Manville asbestos fortune, much of which he spent on his many wives; of a heart attack; in Chappaqua, N.Y. "I'm the marrying kind," said the dapper Tommy, and he certainly proved the point, running through eleven wives in 13 marriages (longest: eleven years; shortest: 7 hours 45 minutes) in a 56-year mating game. All that sport cost him something like $2,000,000 in alimony and lawyers' fees, but Tommy was ever hopeful. Said he after a four-day engagement to wife...
...long, unarguable movie testaments to the dreariness of it all. La Curée, Roger Vadim's version of Zola's Alexandre, impressed most critics as little more than a soap bubble around his wife Jane Fonda. The U.S., displaying more invention than intelligence, came up with Chappaqua, a booze-and-drug Upanishad displaying Allen Ginsberg, the poor man's Whitman. The festival scene had become such a cluttered junkyard that Count Giovanni Volpi, son of the competition's originator, disowned the whole thing with the melancholy statement: "The hopes of Venice are again deluded...
...Philosophy); Stephen D. Franklin, of Brookline (Mathematics); Richard A. Glickstein, of Scarsdale, N.Y. (Economics); John A. Katzenellenbogen, of Baltimore, Md. (Chemistry); Alexis P. Malozemoff, of Greenwich, Conn. (Chemistry and Physics); Myron Miller, of New York City (Architectural Sciences); Carl R. Olson, of Seattle, Wash. (English); Richard D. Rippe, of Chappaqua, N.Y. (Economics); John W. Shaw, of Worthington, Ohio (Linguistics and Germanic Lang.), and George G. Weickhardt, of Alexandria, Va. (History...