Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Offering a combination of urbane musical comedy and hip ghetto humor, the hour-long program features two young black stars whose previous exposure has been mainly in New York theaters. Moore and Davis, offstage roommates for the past two years, are teamed up in a TV format built around their real life relationship. Portrayed as co-inhabitants of a New York brownstone (separated, for propriety's sake, into separate apartments), they sing and socialize in a roof-and-stoop setting with visiting guest stars who check in each week as temporary roomers...
...songs roll on, Jagger wiggles his flanks in Guitarist Keith Richard's face. Singing the frantic Gimmie Shelter, Jagger stands fey in the middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling Dice, he strips off his denim jacket to reveal a sheer white jersey shirt that matches the clinging pants. And then Mick dances around Bassist Bill Wyman standing stiff and still in his new suit, sips on a Coors between choruses, trades vocal lines with Richard...
...pulled out Czech-made VZ 58 lightweight submachine guns from which the butts had been removed and half a dozen grenades of a new type whose shrapnel bursts with devastating effect after the initial explosion. Standing spread-legged and back-to-back, they coldly began firing from the hip into the crowd of deplaning passengers and bystanders, sweeping the hall from side to side. When they had emptied their first magazines, they lobbed the grenades at groups of tourists and airport attendants, then reversed the magazines in their guns and began firing again...
Died. Jasper ("Jap") Deeter, 78, actor, director and founder of the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan-Rose Valley, Pa.; of complications following a broken hip; in Media, Pa. A friend of Eugene O'Neill's, Deeter abandoned a career on Broadway in 1923 and set up the Hedgerow Theater in a vacant mill. Before Deeter retired as its director in 1956, Hedgerow had established itself as a training ground for such future stars as Van Heflin, Libby Holman and Richard Basehart...
...taller stature, was interpreted by militant women as male chauvinism. Actually, the male's position was intended to show how the human arm moves and to display man's fingers and opposed thumb; the woman's stance demonstrates not passivity but the workings of the hip. Also, Drake observes, most men really are taller than most women...