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...hero, Julius (Kevin J. O'Connor) is a stuporous New York City punk in high-top Keds and a greasy leather jacket, who has just lost his job and wants to become a musician. Somehow he convinces a bandleader, Keith Burns (Buster Poindexter, a.k.a. David Johansen) to give him his "big break" if he can locate a reclusive acoustic guitar maker, Elmore Silk (Harris Yulin), who has mysteriously disappeared from the New York music scene...
Also of interest are a series of harbor cruises called Bestcruine, featuring middling talent like local popsters the Stompers. One exception is Former New York Doll David Johansen June...
...David Johansen: Live It Up. (Blue Sky/CBS). He was supposed to be too wild to be wrestled onto record. But they finally pinned him, Live. A dance-'till-dawn classic...
...some great stuff, new old. Mercury Records just re-issued the New York Dolls' two albums, self-titled and Too Much Too Soon. The Dolls were "ahead of their time," and sometimes too out of control for their own good. This is raucous stuff, and lead singer David JoHansen sings of love, drugs, and insanity from firsthand knowledge. Don't be put off by the transvestite image; this is great rock and rool. "Personality Crisis" and the Bo Diddley song "Pills" from the first album, and the remake of "Stranded in the Jungle" on the second are the best...
...another foreign language, and they learned to cope with knotty classic texts. Today Latin is offered in only 16 of the state's 600 secondary schools, and English courses are less structured and demanding. There is another big difference between then and now. In 1928, observes Don Johansen, the state's supervisor of secondary education, only about 12% of the college-age population went to college. About half a century later, that figure is estimated at 45.5%. College, says Johansen, "is no longer only for the cream of the crop. In this study, we're comparing...