Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of doe-eyed dumbness that will surely make him a cult object in certain circles. They will also be pleased to take this perfect imitation of James Dean's mannerisms as evidence that he can act, though he is mostly required to stand around as a prettily passive victim, prettiness being the main thing separating him from all the other victims endlessly degraded and beaten in sundry picturesque ways throughout the film...
...Romanians accept a rigid party control and internal monopoly of power by Ceaucescu and his entourage including a fulsome personality cult) in return for a sense of national pride and independence unique in their history of foreign domination. The Russians put up with the luxury of a separate Romanian 'place in the sun', secure in the knowledge that no Prague spring of liberalisation will appear on the streets of Bucharest. With Ceaucescu playing the nationalism and religion cards so skillfully, dissident opposition is weak...
...self-flagellatory type, you just missed Springsteen, the Electric Light Orchestra. Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Seger and The Atlantics. If you are depressive-suicidal, I was just kidding. They were never in town...
...back in Boston--for the first time since 1969, when Life sent him here to cover the Harvard strike of that spring--and he is, as he desires, back into show business. He wrote the lyrics for King of Hearts, the musical version of Phillipe de Broca's Cambridge cult film which opens this week in Boston, moving to New York in the middle of October. When we met for an interview at Bartley's Burger Cottage last week, he was relaxed--although he did chain-smoke--open, friendly, and above all, interesting. Not to mention funny...
...cohorts face not only the usual problems inherent in a Broadway-bound show (last week the truck carrying some of the sets up to Boston was fire-bombed by Molotov-happy kids, delaying the opening by a full week), but the special problem of transferring a beloved movie--a cult film, particularly in Cambridge, where it ran for five and a half years--into a popular musical. DeBroca's fable of lovable loonies running rampant in an abandoned French town during World War I has a dedicated following, may of whom aren't going to like the jazzed-up musical...