Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THREE YEARS NOW Martin Kilson has expressed the desire to become my agent," Richard Lyon '75 says. The joke is funny partly because Lyon is past the need for the kind of support Harvard can provide--his agent is Leonard Bernstein's sister. At 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night, Harvard will get a taste of Lyon's professionalism when he sits down at the piano in Adams House dining room and begins to play. Backing him will be a 20-piece orchestra and two members of the Kuumba Singers called the Gatson Sisters. The House will be packed, Lyon predicts...
...Lyon writes all his music himself, and a few of his lyrics. Most of them, though are written by Tom McNamee, winner of the American Academy of Poets Younger Poet Price in 1969, who is now employed by Columbia Records. A typical McNamee lyric goes something like this: "I set my sleep in neatly ordered rows/She scatters dreams like the ashes of a diary page./I don't keep no records, don't look back./She comes she goes I don't keep track. /The floor is covered with her empty clothes./O my passion! O my rage!" Under McNamee...
...Lyon, the son of a Washington lawyer prominent in the Democratic Party, sees himself as the product of a new phenomenon in the music business, a system that generates stars out of the middle class. "Look at James Taylor," he says. "His father is dean of the Medical School at University of North Carolina. Or Carly Simon, of Simon and Schuster. You don't have to grow up in the ghetto any more to be a pop star. The pop star doesn't climb a ladder to success any more. Lots of people who attended elite colleges...
...profession of chef is being given its true value," said Paul Bocuse, 49, proprietor and chef of his eponymous three-star restaurant near Lyon. This week Bocuse will be made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by President Giscard d'Estaing. In return, Bocuse, together with three other three-star chefs, will cook a five-course luncheon for Giscard to demonstrate the glories of the new French cuisine that emphasizes improvisation with the day's freshest food. The chefs will go to market that same morning to choose the food and then they will take over...
...Howard Hughes story, a made-for-TV film biography of the reclusive millionaire, the protagonist was unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes turned her down with "marry Huntington Hartford." A more sinister Hughes emerged from Film Maker Ron Lyon's experience. He had reckoned without his subject. When Lyon tried to obtain newsreel clips of Hughes, the only ones available were of him smiling and waving. Then the insurance company, doubtless aware of Hughes' litigious nature, insisted that most of the critical remarks be cut. But undaunted...