Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wayne in Tears. The best supporting actor award to Gig Young, for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, was a crowd pleaser at the Mitchells, but the selection of Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower) in the best supporting actress competition was loudly denounced as "a joke" by Ruth Berle. There was general dismay that neither Susannah York (They Shoot Horses) nor Dyan Cannon (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) had won. Some guests booed John Wayne's triumph as best actor for True Grit, but the sound had approving overtones. "----the Viet Cong," snarled Lee Marvin. "Get those yellow bastards, John...
...Townshend of The Who tames his guitar like some wild electronic animal, while Santana makes the theater seats vibrate, and Alvin Lee of Ten Years After comes close to tearing down the movie screen. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young sound slightly out of tune ("It's only our second gig," says Crosby, explaining the group's nervousness to the assembled 500,000) but Arlo Guthrie comes over with a sureness and command only intermittently evident in Alice's Restaurant. Sha Na Na offer a neat, affectionate and very funny send-up of '50s rock with their strutting...
...metaphor for just about everything that's wrong with America: capitalistic manipulation and dehumanization: the physical and spiritual bankruptcy of the California frontier; the war mentality of the competitive nature of American life. Much of this is brought home (sometimes too explicitly) by the frighteningly familiar em???, played by Gig Young...
...somebody from a magazine to come in and sit down-a young cat -and say, 'I identify with you, kid. Come on, let's get it on.' And I say, O.K. . . . And when it comes out in TIME, it's a whole different gig. It's the way your editors wanted me to be shown. That...
George Hirsch interrupted. "Most of them weren't practicing professionals. Now you get a lot of people who eventually want to be on the Mery Griffin show. And to them, it's just another gig. But the thing about talking about Hair as a gig- as a job- is that it's like Jon said, it may be a little bit blah, but amateurish as it is in a way, it's the only game going...