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...sequence of bands has never been matched by any subsequent film chronicling the events of a music concert, rock or otherwise. Never has a three-hour chunk of celluloid flown by so quickly in recent memory, and I include the Godfather epics in that statement. Joan Baez' rendition of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" usually elicits a few catcalls from the rowdies who always show up for a showing of Woodstock, but the film hasn't another rough spot in it. And the concluding ten minutes prove byond any remaining shadow of a doubt that Hendrix does indeed live...
...enter anyone in the 880-yard run, so Sarah Robinson, Debbie Hess and Joan Hart had an easy time of it. Robinson won with a slow...
Folk Singer Joan Baez and Carlos Santana and his Latin rock band had a captive audience last week. The occasion: a concert they gave at California's Soledad prison set up by Rock Impresario Bill Graham. The 600 prisoners who curled up on the grass of a playing field were not shortchanged. Baez, 36, sang songs like Raze the Prisons Down and passed out carnations. She then danced with a few prisoners and invited "two brothers" to come play with the band. After the final note, Baez said farewell by yelling loud and clear: "I hope...
Directed by JOAN MICKLIN SILVER
WHEN HARPER'S MAGAZINE published a segment of Joan Didion's novel, A Book of Common Prayer,it seemed that here was another normally-incisive writer succumbing to just one more California fetish. While the National Enquirer alone had been interested in investigating Henry Kissinger's trash, everybody--and we're talking here about the well-established publishing world--wanted to know about Patricia Hearst's closet sex life and continual menstrual cycle. (The California papers followed this latter issue quite closely and the ever-staid New York Times devoted several columns in its Sunday magazine to the constant period...