Word: clubbings
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Major creative talents are starting to take notice. Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann (Miami Vice) and John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) were among a group of Hollywood producers who appeared before a convention of cable executives in Los Angeles this month to avow their interest in producing shows for cable. Martin Sheen has formed a production company to develop shows exclusively for cable. So has Shelley Duvall, a cable pioneer with her Faerie Tale Theatre series on Showtime. "In terms of creative freedom, cable television today is where broadcast television was in the 1950s," says Duvall. "Producers have...
When Clarice Conley was nine years old, her mother and grandmother began the initiation. Dressed in her finest, shoes shiny, gloves pristine, she was allowed to follow them through the heavy oak doors of the Highland Park Ebell Club in the hills of northeastern Los Angeles. In the cavernous main hall, surrounded by distinguished ladies with brows aloft, she listened to dramatic readings, or speeches on art or tropical Brazil. The children even had a dining room all their...
More than a half-century later, Conley is president of the club. But the hub of cultural and social activity that flourished in 1922 has only 40 members left. It leases space to help pay expenses. Conley, who at 74 is one of the younger members, realizes that an era has passed. "It's not that the women have changed," she says. "There's still a need for contact with people. It's the life-style that's changed...
...Conley's club is not alone. Across the U.S., the traditional women's club has become an endangered species, with a steadily aging membership. The number of club members has dropped by more than half since 1957, to fewer than half a million. Now that more jobs, organizations and opportunities are open to women of all ages, the clubs seem to be less attractive; many are faced with either making major changes or closing down. "We're in steady decline," admits Leigh Wintz, executive director of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, "and it's a difficult process...
...business now worry about what will happen to the Square and their neighborhoods if development keeps up at its current pace. Plans are now being laid to replace much of the western part of the Square with large new office buildings. The sites of the Harvard Motor Lodge and Club Casablanca will be among the first to go. And many of the buildings along Brattle and Eliot Streets (Charlie's Kitchen, Brine's Sporting Goods) may soon be torn down and replaced by six-story office buildings...