Word: haleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British-born Costello may look a bit like Woody Allen with a guitar, but there is nothing timid about his music. With a three-piece band behind him, he blasts out a stream of riffs that recalls the piston rhythms of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Little Richard and the early Beatles. The songs are angrier than the soft rock that spun out of Southern California onto the record charts this year, and Costello sings them with a prophet's urgency. In the light of his sizzling reception on a just completed U.S. tour, the message seems clear: rock...
Novelists have been poaching on real life for some time and Truman Capote didn't invent a new genre, but only gave it a name, when he called his reportorial In Cold Blood a "nonfiction novel." Alex Haley called Roots a work of "faction," blending fact and fiction, but the distinction wasn't made all that clear on TV, embarrassing Haley deeply. Far more tricky legally is Robert Coover's new novel about the Rosenbergs, The Public Burning, where real-name living people (including Richard Nixon) are put into wildly improbable situations. If suits occur...
...keep their health, fix the plumbing," says Priscilla Felton, manager of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Book serialization is another growth industry. The New York Times Syndicate has paid six-figure sums for the rights to syndicate forthcoming blockbusters by H.R. Haldeman and Richard Nixon, and picked up Alex Haley's Roots for a song before the book's TV series caught on. Universal is turning thrillers like Raise the Titanic! and Storm Warning into comic strips...
...Roots, Haley...
...Book of Lists, Wallechinsky, I. & A. Wallace (1) 2-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (2) 3-The Dragons of Eden, Sagan (3) 4-Looking Out for #1, Ringer (6) 5-It Didn 't Start with Watergate, Lasky (5) 6-Roots, Haley (4) 7-Passages, Sheehy (7) 8-The Camera Never Blinks, Rather (9) 9-Vivien Leigh, Edwards 10-The Path Between the Seas, McCullough