Word: haight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mamas and Papas' "California Dreamin," of course) and the movie enters the land of Oz. Before, the music served mainly as an audio calendar, or a mood piece; suddenly, we are supposedly at the very heart of the pop-making scene. A druggie band living in a Haight-Ashbury boarding house picks up Tony and he becomes some sort of mythical rock and roll guru. He composes (Dylan's folk) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" on a bus, the band plays (Jefferson Airplane's rock) Somebody to Love" in concert and later (Jimmy Webb...
...early '70s. She lived with Rock Musician Bernie Leadon of the Eagles, opposed the Viet Nam War and, for a time, ceased communication with the elder Reagans. "I was very rebellious and very feisty," she once explained. "The one place I wanted to go to was Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco." Patti did not go to the counterculture capital, but to Hollywood. There, using the professional name Patti Davis, she has won small roles in the likes of TV's Love Boat. Though she took no part in her father's campaign ("I'm antipolitical...
...change in the world, the human does not transmit from parent to child certain basic lore and procedural data. Knowledge that any peasant instinctively possesses now arrives at the front door in a burst of light, like revelation. A doctor who opened a free clinic for hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the late '60s found that his patients were showing up with infections, sores and other maladies that medicine had not seen I since the 13th century. The flower children had simply unlearned centuries of civilization's experience in the field of hygiene...
...Whatever happened to Joe Pepitone? When a heckler shouted this at President Carter during a rally outside Chicago's Wrigley Field, media expert Jerry Rafshoon ended Carter's speech and rushed him away by taxi. The truth is that Pepitone, a Commoner supporter, lives in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury section as a hairdresser for retired secret service agents...
...bizarre charm, partly because of the shared in-joke it represents. Though little in the play is likely to diminish the movie in the eyes of true believers, some nice touches are evident. Stardust Memories actress C.J. Critt, as Columbia, Frank N. Furter's groupie, adds a freaked-out Haight Ashbury spaciness to her role; baton twirler champion Dennis Daniels portrays glistening muscle-god Rocky Horror, a Neanderthal in the film whose most eloquent line is "ugh!" with wit and gymnastic talent; and Steve Lincoln, as the narrator, hurries his lines, but the former ulcerridden CBS executive does well...