Word: disco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lake Forest estate to allow filming in their home. When Director Robert Altman was filming A Wedding, for 20th Century-Fox distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash for the cast and crew at a Chicago disco. Which points up another advantage of attracting film makers: besides being good business, hanging out with movie people...
...also has not overcome the problem of integrating into a whole the varied subjects and formats of the adopted pieces. Blackouts are used too frequently for transition between numbers instead of more refined staging and lighting. At times the structure disappears, turning Nightclub Cantata into Up With People gone disco...
...Disco and coffee-shop owners are variously hostile and hospitable to the cops. At Arthur J's, four men began openly selling drugs at a table; another time, a 15-year-old girl ran out of the ladies' room screaming, "Oh my God, I broke the needle off in my arm!" Shirley Norris, the manager, hired her own night guard-and then gathered signatures for a petition demanding extra police protection. Now she's seeing "familiar faces back again" -her old "straight" clientele...
...researching an article about her for the New York Times Magazine. Stapleton; 46, danced a bit and inspired some affectionate smooching from the guest of honor, who finds her "one of the most beautiful women I've ever met." Stapleton also spent part of the evening in the disco vestibule with Rader's father Paul a Southern Baptist evangelist. The whole attair, she said, "was very enjoyable and very enlightening...
True to his word, the murderer struck again last week, creeping up behind a couple parked on a tree-shaded street near a disco-théque in the borough of Queens and firing four shots from his .44-caliber Charter Arms "Bulldog." Though Judy Placido, 17, and Salvatore Lupo, 20, his tenth and eleventh victims, were wounded, both miraculously survived. But the latest, and most publicized, attack tightened the grip of fear on neighborhoods in Queens and in The Bronx, where the bizarre, psychopathic killer has chosen his targets...