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...post of executive director. Bliss's mission: to restore economic health to the Met, whose deficit is expected to be $9 million this year. On the pop scene, attendance at rock concerts promoted by Howard Stein Enterprises has fallen 25% to 40% below that of a year ago. Elton John is one of the few who still sing to S.R.O...
...Winter Group. And why not? Hartman is the proud owner of a new set of threads that just may revolutionize the look of a rock concert. Let the Doobie Brothers attire their drummer in stars and stripes that blink on and off in tune to the big beat. Let Elton John wear trousers that explode. Hartman tops them all with the Guitar Suit, a $5,000, one-piece, silverized affair that makes possible a Flash Gordonesque union of man, music and instrument. Says Hartman: "I feel completely different as a performer...
...most historians have yet to accord film the validity they have granted to literature. Maybe these historians can't get over their initial orientation towards film as an entertainment medium. Twenty years ago, Sir Arthur Elton, one of the first to write about the value of film as source material, suggested another possible reason for the historians' reluctance to study film. "The principle thing frustrating the proper application of film to history," he wrote, "is lack of awareness of the possibilities; and the lingering feeling, a hangover from the Nathan flare days, that it is undignified for scholars to take...
...with other kinds of evidence. Historians can learn about the aspirations of the intellectuals by reading the books, journals, and newspapers they wrote. But studying popular films is a much better way, and perhaps the only way, to learn about the dreams of the millions of less articulate people, Elton's "unscholarly masses...
...popped up at the shallow end of the charts this summer, the reaction at Warner Bros. Records was gratification tinged with a trace of awe. Cooder has no gruesomely elaborate stagecraft or lifestyle, and his work is not the sort that goes down easily with Carly Simon fans or Elton John aficionados. His music is elegantly eclectic, running from Leadbelly and Sleepy John Estes blues numbers through main-line ballads of the 1940s to reggae and rock 'n' roll. "Ry's pure," says a record producer who has worked with him. "He's scrupulous in everything...