Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crystals and the Ronettes were high on the pop charts in the early '60s, but Phil Spector, multifaceted rock tycoon, wrote the lyrics, produced the records and pocketed most of the profits. In the '60s the men who sold pop music saw women as petulant screamers (Lesley Gore) or filigreed folkies (Judy Collins). Occasionally, women defied the image makers. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick escaped briefly from San Francisco psychedelia. But separated from their back-up bands, neither prospered for very long. Joplin turned to drugs, and Slick lost her creative flair...
This movie, made virtually in tandem with Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (TIME, June 10), is not quite so spectacular: it is not, like Frankenstein, in migraine-inducing 3-D, and Director-Writer Morrissey goes a little easier on the gore. As a result, the movie is actually funnier-although Morrissey is never going to be a master of restraint...
Died. Julian Ormsby Gore, 33, son of Britain's Lord Harlech and archetypal playboy of London's swinging, kinky '60s; apparently by his own hand (gunshot); in London. Ormsby Gore, who worked as a waiter and male model, was found by his sister Alice, 22, in his silver-painted West London apartment, a .22-cal. pistol lying by his hand...
Renaming the nether parts of his characters after the Supreme Court Justices who voted to allow communities to set their own pornography standards is one of Gore Vidal's gentler touches in Book II of the Breckinridge saga. It is an invidiously amusing camp fantasy which seems to have been inspired in equal parts by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Claude Rains' Mr. Jordan movies...
Once again, Gore Vidal proves that in a market crowded with literary hook ers, he is a true courtesan. He respects the values of entertainment and can de liver a novel for practically any taste...