Word: jo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third time, exudes a cool, threatening sexuality. Elizabeth Hartman is affecting as a young spinster and Geraldine Page provides a haunting portrait of thwarted lust. The young girls are the most remarkable children seen on-screen since Our Mother's House, especially a sultry temptress named Jo Ann Harris and the remarkable Pamelyn Ferdin, who credibly transforms from idolater to avenger...
...meantime, Dover has been working out in the IAB daily trying to improve his game. "With Jo-Jo White, Don Chaney and Rex Morgan as my competition, I've got to be at my best," he said. "You can be sure that I'm working on my outside shot...
...record was produced by the great Huey P. Meaux, who is responsible for the Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson hits, "Lover's Holiday," "Soulshake," and "Pickin Wild Mountain Berries." Meaux kept almost all the cuts simple, melodic, and less than three minutes long. The best of them are the amazingly pompous and melodramatic "I Can't Take Another Heartache" and "Put It On Me." Talbert pulls off singing such ludicrous songs only on the strength of his fantastic voice, which falls just a little short of Screaming Jay Hawkins...
Today Taylor's experiences seem frighteningly in tune with the troubles of his age. "Right now," remarks Danny Kootch, who first met James in the late 1950s and now not only plays guitar with Taylor but leads his own group Jo Mama, "if you're not alienated, you're weird. All you have to do is grow your hair long and everybody talks to you. But in those days you felt, 'What's the matter with me that I can't exist in this world?' Either you ended up very neurotic and screwed up, or you got strength from...
Died. Dr. Joseph W. Spelman, 52, pathologist who as Philadelphia medical examiner gained national attention by urging an autopsy of Mary Jo Kopechne, the secretary who lost her life while on an outing with Senator Edward Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island, Mass.; of stomach cancer; in Philadelphia. A onetime Vermont state pathologist, Spelman once shocked the state by claiming publicly that 90% of all murders committed in Vermont went unprosecuted because of the slipshod methods of reporting deaths. In Philadelphia, he started a poison-information center, helped establish a suicide-control center and tried to spare the feelings of bereaved relatives...