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...Freshman registration several years ago, incoming Harvard students were given--among mounds of other printed material--some kind of Chamber-of-Commerce hype about the "charming and multi-dimensional Harvard Square." It began, "As you emerge from the Harvard Square station of the MBTA, Massachusetts Avenue (or, as the natives say, Mass Ave) is in front of you, behind you, on your right, on your left...
...review copy of Ladies and Gentlemen--LENNY BRUCE!! I found a thick sheaf of slick xeroxed copies of reviews which the book had already received. Putting them aside, annoyed, I noticed a half-page of typescript, "About the Author." That seemed legit as preliminary reading. But the short biography-hype was culled from a self-advertising essay of Goldman's which I had read before: "Shuttling back and forth between Columbia University, where he was a lecturer, and Brooklyn, where he was one of the gang that ran with Lenny Bruce, Mr. Goldman developed early the split personality, one-half...
Strawberry Fields Forever, a fan club devoted to "the care and preservation of The Beatles," has spent most of July pushing its first Annual Beatle Convention. And now, all the hype bears its fruit. Devotees of Paul, John, George and Ringo have made the pilgrimage to Boston's Bradford Hotel. From California, from New York, from France, they have come for five hours of live Beatle music, ten hours of Beatle films, and an orgy of buying, trading and auctioning...
...First Annual Beatle Convention, going on for the next three days at Boston's Bradford Hotel, sounds like a lot of hype but it also sounds like...
...event at the Welles this week. Disney's biographer insists that wonderful Walt was not a member of the John Birch Society, and if that's the case you might as well see the movie because it's sort of fun. But don't be fooled by all the hype: It's not all that great and if you're going for the art it's no Fantasia...