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...matter of record -- indeed, of rock mythology -- and needs some freshening up for contemporary consumption. A.E. Hotchner, whose previous forays into biography have included volumes about Ernest Hemingway, Doris Day and Sophia Loren, is clearly no rock fan. He dismisses Jagger as "a ruler with no queen, no jester, no kingdom, just an egocentric bitch king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon, and he comes up with...
...will Angelenos use the $800 million line? Says Norm Jester, director of rail activation for the Rail Construction Corporation: "It will be attractive enough to encourage people to leave cars behind." The line is expected to carry 35,000 daily passengers the first year and 54,000 by the year 2000. That will leave more than enough of L.A.'s 4 1/2 million auto commuters to clog freeways well into the next century...
...most disappointing performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream comes from Tom Chick, who plays Oberon's jester Puck, who unfortunately gets a little confused about who should be loving whom. Chick is flat rather than impish, insipid instead of intelligent. Puck is normally the most memorable character of this comedy--but not in this production...
FEAST OF FOOLS. Clowning through the centuries, British-born Geoff Hoyle is by turns a medieval jester, a fly-eating Arlecchino and two dueling waiters. | Imaginative and skillful physically, if a bit labored verbally, Hoyle peaks in an inspired bit of off-Broadway lunacy proving that, when it comes to dancing, three legs are better than...
Imagine the jester's surprise when he discovered the king had never heard one word. President Derek Bok told a friend of mine this autumn that he never reads The Crimson and that he doesn't know anything about "Boyd's Eye View." I wasn't looking for celebrity endorsement of my work, but when I heard he laughed at the daily student newspaper as a headache-causing agent, I got angry...