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Jackson loves to raise hell anywhere, any time-in his own style. Leaving rubber on San Leandro's main street is part of his superstar gig, along with collecting old cars and racks of new custom-made clothes. But to Jackson, raising hell means making his presence felt in quiet ways as well as loud. He is accused of insufficient sympathy for fellow blacks; yet he unobtrusively gives away thousands of dollars every year to black, Indian and Mexican-American community groups. He sometimes likes to come on like just another impulsive free-spending jock; actually...
TIME Correspondent David De Voss, who joined Starship's pampered passenger list last week, notes that for harassed entertainers who book into a different city every day and usually stay up most of the night after their gig, Starship is a pad away from home. Moreover, as Organist Jon Lord of Deep Purple-a heavy metal group that has booked Starship for five weeks-points out: "On regular airlines, there are always queues for flights, overbooking, lost luggage and canceled connecting flights. This tour already has less frantic a feel." And what commercial airline would allow its passengers...
Less than 24 hours after the operation, both patient and doctor were doing fine. Jazz Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 59, underwent cataract surgery on his right eye and then, together with his ophthalmologist, amateur saxophone player Dr. Charles Kelman he played a gig in Harlem. Besides blowing sax, Dr. Kelman is writing the score for a projected Broadway show and trying for a breakthrough pop song. So far he is ahead in the eye department: he developed a pioneering procedure for cataract surgery (applicable only in special cases) that shortens recovery time from seven weeks to a minimum of four hours...
NICOL WILLIAMSON'S LATE SHOW. An afterhours gig with the matchless Scot singing the blues and lighting up the night with Eliot, Kipling and Beckett...
...explained his switch in roles: from exhusband and manager of Linda (Deep Throat) Lovelace to manager of Marilyn (Behind the Green Door) Chambers. "I hope I'm never your old car," giggled Marilyn after she had made a successful New Jersey nightclub debut preparatory to a Las Vegas gig. Meanwhile, Old Car Lovelace was making the grade quite nicely without Chuck. In Cambridge, Mass., she was awarded the Harvard Lampoon's "Wilde Oscar" for risking "worldly damnation in the pursuit of artistic fulfillment." Then she returned to rehearsals for the national tour of Pajama Tops, a bedroom farce...