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Meanwhile, in New York, Reporter-Researcher Jean Vallely and Staff Writer Joan Downs traced Springsteen's often difficult career. Downs, who wrote our first story on Springsteen (TIME, April 1, 1974), interviewed legendary Music Man John Hammond. Vallely dug for Springsteen's musical inspirations in the dingy ambiance of his adopted home town, Asbury Park, N.J. She visited the boardwalk haunts where Springsteen "hung out" penniless only a few years ago She also encountered old Springsteen sidekicks, whose names have been woven into his lyrics. One 4½hour interview with Southside Johnny began cautiously but ended with...
...Joan Bonato seems to have written Philadelphia for actors to show off their talents, and at times they do. Lois Shelton as Louise, a black woman deserted by her alcoholic husband, knows how to express her bitterness with a good amount of bile. And her lines--especially about taking a black stable-boy statue from the white home where she's going to do the cleaning and lynching it--bring together a good mixture of humor and sorrow. Somehow this play is made for the down-and-outers of the raw, physical side of life, because aside from the black...
Philadelphia, Anyone? By Joan Bonato, directed by Leslye Freeman. Different from Philadelphia, Here I Come, which you might have caught at Lowell House last year. At the Loeb Ex, October 23-25. Tickets available free at the box office the day preceding each performance...
...cool, infrangible poise of David Hockney's still lifes and portraits. Pierre Alechinsky, the Belgian painter, is represented by a group of delectably complex, exuberant paintings, swarming with organic life like microscope slides rendered in calligraphy. There is a group of Sobreteixims by the 82-year-old Joan Miro, hangings woven from thick knotted clumps of rope, charred and then painted with undiminished vitality...
...Died. Joan Whitney Payson, 72, jolly, spirited centimillionaire and lifelong sports fanatic who owned racing stables and, since its inception, the New York Mets baseball team; following hospitalization for a stroke; in Manhattan...