Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier, he had rented a Memphis movie theater and a roller rink for afterhours amusement. In recent years, his only forays out into the real world were concert tours that were carefully insulated. The routine was usually the same: private plane to private limo to back entrance of hotel to specially cleared elevator to penthouse suite; then, after a while, off to the concert, onto the stage, back to the hotel, then to the airport. Reality never intruded, except when the schedule faltered. In a 1972 documentary, Elvis on Tour, there is a quick scene of Elvis, stranded...
Pryor's colorful vulgarity found an S.R.O. audience, not in Las Vegas but on the concert hall circuit. Writing, he dis covered, came naturally. He wrote part of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, several segments of Sanford and Son, and parts of two Lily Tomlin specials. Acting came just as naturally. If he never said another funny word, Pryor could undoubtedly make it as a major Hollywood actor. Says Michael Schultz, director of Greased Lightning: "He can do the same scene ten different ways-all of them right...
...plans for the class, aimed at age-old problems of freshman isolation and alienation. He would like to try several one-shot projects "that haven't been done in a long time or at all," such as organizing a freshman class marathon sometime this fall followed by a bluegrass concert and a picnic. At Manhattanville, Moses was largely responsible for injecting a sense of activity and celebration into the college atmosphere, initiating an athletic program and social organizations and, while he says he left there in part in search of a more academically-oriented post, he brings with him many...
...this? Rita has a hit album and a smash single, Higher and Higher. What will her success do to his ego? Last week everybody in the pop world was tuning in to find out as Kris and Rita took to the road for a two-month, 23-concert joint tour...
Just before the concert tour, he completed the trucker movie Convoy (TIME July 4). No more films are on his agenda -at least for now. Like his Texas buddies Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, he wants to "get back to the basics"-of music, mixing with the musicians, jamming a little and hearing other groups. The other day he liked a song on the radio, but had not the slightest idea what it was or who was singing it (he later learned that it was the Swedish group ABBA). Kristofferson does not like being that far out of touch. Like...