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...Easy Rider (1969) and in the freer, more personal films that flowed from its success, Nicholson became a kind of figurehead for a loose group of actors and film makers who were trying to expand the commercial genre. Nicholson, Actors Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Writer-Directors Bob Rafelson, Monte Hellman, Carol and Charles Eastman-none of them then well known-all cheered and boosted each other. Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention (Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, Hopper's The Last Movie, Nicholson's own Drive, He Said), but the new Hollywood passed...
Soon after, Bob Rafelson was involved with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in preparing a motorcycle movie. Rafelson thought there was a good part for Nicholson, but Hopper wanted Rip Torn. Nicholson was dispatched to the set as a sort of production watchdog. He quickly became the right man at the right time. Torn dropped out of the movie, Nicholson moved in. Easy Rider wound up making $35 million. It also got Nicholson an Oscar nomination. All the scuffling was finally starting...
JOYCE HABER, 41, an exceptionally literate gossip, tattles about movie stars and camp followers five times a week in the Los Angeles Times and 58 other papers. An alumna of TIME'S Beverly Hills bureau, she replaced Hedda Hopper in 1966, and West Coast wits began referring to her as Hedda Haber. At first she adopted a bitchy, initial-cluttered style ("What was Miss P.P. doing with Mr. V.V. at... ") that earned her many enemies. Later the scourge of Celluloid City dropped the initials and developed a more serious reportorial approach. In the past few weeks, for example...
Luci-Desi Comedy Hour. Well. Why not? Lucille Ball announced this week that she's quitting her TV show. This episode can commemorate the good old days--before Desi was fat and gray, before Lucy was old and tired, and before Chicago Tribune gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (who plays herself in this one) was dead and gone. You won't have Lucy to kick around much longer. Ch. 56, 7: 30 p.m. 1 hour...
...work on the one hand, and the audience on the other," notes Critic Brian O'Doherty, "there are large areas for misunderstanding." O'Doherty, who paints (under the name Patrick Ireland) and also teaches (at Barnard), attempts to correct any such misunderstandings about eight American artists: Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth and Joseph Cornell. Despite the use of a good deal of jargon, O'Doherty is remarkably successful. His interviews and commentary, for example, throw a welcome personal light on Hopper's laconic pessimism and Davis...