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Conservative guru Bill Buckley recalled that 21 years ago he was in the Great Hall in Beijing deploring Richard Nixon's joyous cavorting with the Red Chinese leaders. Curtain coming down on a long ideological reign...
...Angeles these days, friends of Bill's are looking after him: besides the Thomasons, there is Gary Belz, whose family owns the landmark Peabody hotel in Memphis and who moved to California two years ago, where he runs recording studios and studies the teachings of an Indian guru. And then there is Stone, Roger's manager, who favors lobster dinners and snakeskin boots and spent years sharing the road and mountaintop commune of the heavy-metal boogie band Black Oak Arkansas...
...Karan, for example, most designers' second collections were watered- down versions of their high-priced lines. Karan did something entirely different when she opened her second line, DKNY, in 1989. She offered stylish, casual and affordable clothes without cannibalizing her main collection. Under the direction of Karan's advertising guru, Peter Arnell of the Arnell/Bickford agency, the new line was shrewdly marketed with a portfolio of black-and-white cityscapes that emphasized its distinctive urban persona. Its revenues should hit $185 million this year...
...Johnny Dollar, kicks off with the appropriately titled Sassy, an old-school, freestyle rap tune, in which she asserts, "Fellas got to give me the most respect/ 'Cause you know I don't waste my time." Propelled by a jazzy piano riff, she rhymes a duet with the Guru, a raspy male rapper from the group Gang Starr. "If you step to her wrong," he warns, "you're getting played like jazz...
Inside, the club has a bizarre kind of postmodern juke joint vibe, complete with Southern primitivist folk art and a portrait of Tigrett's Afro-coifed guru, Sai Baba, beaming angelically from above the stage. The ceiling is paneled with the faces of Blues legends carved in relief, their plaster countenances staring placidly down at this whole scene. Boston Phoenix writer and Crimson alum Gary Susman '89 quips, "You almost expect them to start singing, like in the 'Disney Hall of Presidents.'" Tonight, there's also a video camera on the ceiling to collect footage for the upcoming House...