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...raised into a kind of pop artifact and rock-'n'-roll godhead. It sold more than 2 million copies, bought the band out of years of accumulated debt from broken instruments, leveled hotel rooms and erratic U.S. touring. It also brought the members of The Who a flash of stateside fame they had not previously known. Before Tommy they had been notorious; now they were celebrities. Also in 1969, The Who appeared at Woodstock. "It was all very lovely," Entwistle remembers. "People shacking up in tents sunk three feet in the mud, no toilets, peace and love. Backstage...
Special effects seem to be what movie studios think science fiction is all about these days. No doubt, Star Wars impressed a good many people because it depicted outer space with realism and "flash." But since the "creators" of The Motion Picture wanted to get away from the rough 'em up cowboys and laser beams action of Star Wars, they decided to put their special effects money into non-military opticals of the Enterprise's travel through an alien "cloud." It is quite possible that Dykstra and Trumbull decided that since anyone can create the illusion of space travel--they...
With Tom Mannix and Don Fleming carressing the twines from long range, with freshman dynamo Calvin Dixon adding a touch of flash and sophomore Robert Taylor contributing a bit of poise, Harvard looked capable of upending the proud Texans. And no one realized that more than the master of verbal voraciousness himself, Texas coach Abe Lemons...
Ignoring baseball scouts and scholarships, the "California Flash" came east to Harvard because he didn't want his future to depend on his athletic ability. After his decision was made, Jellison found out his father had once been accepted to Harvard but chose to stay in California and get married instead...
...Bette Midler, self-styled queen of "trash with flash," The Rose is an ideal throne. -Frank Rich