Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mailer points out, implicit in this magnetism between fan and star is an ever increasing potential for violence. It is simply a matter of tease on the star's part, she never intends to let the public devour her. But passions have been set into play and they cannot be neutralized by an act of will. The other side of adulation is murder...
...outs, so that seemed only fair, apart from the thieves' being bigger and stronger than I was. Maybe things are changing in New York too--the Times reported a couple weeks back that stadiums across the country wouldn't sell beer any more because the fans were bashing each other's heads in afterwards. Maybe there's a new kind of baseball fan abroad even in the city where saintly Christy Mathewson once held court. Maybe so--but that's not how I think of Shea. I'd feel as lost there in an ugly or furious crowd...
...painful for a Monty Python fan like myself to continue describing the nadir of its enorts. When only a couple of the group's albums were available and the first TV shows went on the American air, it seemed as if the group's standards were pretty high. Now even the dregs are being shown on TV. distributed to movie theaters, put on new records, and even printed in books (incidentally, these books--Monty Python's Big Red Book and Papperbok--are not abysmal but contain only a few new things, and these items are really only likely to amuse...
...FAN'S NOTES brought Exley critical acclaim and a few literary awards, but not the fabled pot at the end of the rainbow. A bit miffed and fifteen thousand dollars in debt. Exley began another book, hoping to cash in on his newly acquired reputation...
...most interesting thing Exley's parenthetical comments reveal is that he knew from the outset that Pages wasn't working. Realizing it only contained tidbits of his life and occasional references to A Fan's Notes and with the debts still looming overhead. Exley banished the 480 pages of typescript to the back of his rusting Chevy and began a personal odyssey in search of material. But the people he meets are tedious, and by this time his reflections have become predictable. If anything, Exley seems too detached, to the point of being callous...