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After rising briefly in 1970 with "Lola," probably the group's most famous song--all about a transvestite--the Kinks headed into their theatrical era, and their concerts became performances of Davies musicals. The albums of this era, most of which are now out of print, were less striking than their predecessors, but were nevertheless uniformly fine productions. Still, nobody paid attention...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: In the Saddle Again | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

...Jack Jones, all wards of Caesars Palace and the Sahara and the Dunes. And then Mike Douglas, crinkly-eyes and soothing friend of millions. And for the kids, a little "rock," from Rick Springfield, better known for his regular role on "General Hospital." A fat, old Mel Torme, Lola Falana...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Boston: 267-2200 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

While a very roughhewn justice is dealt the plot, Trinculo, the jester, has become a blowsy demimondaine (Lola Pashalinski), and her companion, the drunken butler Stephano (Louis Zorich), looks like a disheveled French chef with a torn toque blanche. The pair do a crude parody of Mae West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Isle of Blight | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...DIED. Lola Lane, 75, one of the three Lane sisters (the others: Rosemary and Priscilla) who became leading ladies in Hollywood during the 1930s and '40s and who, while maintaining separate careers, appeared with another actress in Four Daughters (1938), Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941); in Santa Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...many cases, the unkindest cuts of movie moguls have been restored decades later by heroic film scholars. Together again for the first time: King Kong, in which the great ape engages in vigorous foreplay with Fay Wray; Welles' Macbeth and Touch of Evil; Max Ophuls' magnificent melodrama Lola Monies; and Sergio Leone's great homage to John Ford, Once Upon a Time in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No, but I Saw the Rough Cut | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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