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...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
...meandering documentary account of the Algerian war-is almost worse than what is borrowed. Even when one sees the French Legionnaires and the Algerian revolutionaries, they seem like a confused army of extras recruited from Central Casting. This is not really the fault of Director Minos Volanakis or the Chelsea Theater Center, which has staged Volanakis' translation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rather the flaw is in the script's grandiose pretensions, which dwarf interest in any individual...
...reflective, robust 62, Losey lives comfortably in London's Chelsea with his fourth wife. He is planning to film a biography of Leon Trotsky, and spent some time recently in Mexico City with Artist David Siqueiros, who as a Stalinist had been involved in an attempt on Trotsky's life. "How are you going to make a true film?" Siqueiros asked him. "If it was true, how would any film company let you make...
...match time at the Chelsea, a Chicago pub that draws dart players he way Raquel Welch attracts glances, and after several hours of steady practice, the first competitor toed the line and braced to throw. "He was really tired from all that practice," remembers Manager Joe Cassidy. "On that first throw, his follow-through was beautiful. But the dart stuck...
Every midnight for the past seven months, the Elgin Theater in New York City's Chelsea district has presented a screening of an exceedingly curious and especially arresting film called El Topo (The Mole). An allegorical western made in Mexico by a Chilean-Russian stage director named Alexandro Jodorowsky, El Topo has not been shown at all outside Manhattan; reviews, aside from the underground press, have been few and mostly negative. Nonetheless, the film has been kept alive by word of mouth spread by a burgeoning band of fierce partisans. Dennis Hopper had it screened at his home...