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...nation was having collective nightmares in the late '60s, and Didion connected by writing honestly and well about Viet Nam, runaway children and marital stress. In 1970 she and her husband, Writer John Gregory Dunne, paid $140,000 for a house at Malibu, Calif, where the sun always shines and the cost of real estate is limited only by what the next multimillionaire rock star is willing to pay. There Didion can have her bad dreams in style and gather strength for the promotional tour that is likely to make A Book of Common Prayer a bestseller this spring...
Some admit to multiplying quality by the quantity of quality, however, and that could explain why Bob Dylan is getting divorced in Malibu instead of strumming some tunes at the Equinox Street Performers Music Fair this Sunday. But its a three-ring-circus of a fair in three different halls of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, and if that isn't his idea of atmosphere...
...Life is written in six or seven different styles, ranging from academic hauteur (she says she was "amanuensis to the Zeitgeist") through Cosmo cute ("Bed reared its ugly headboard") to bewilderingly lifeless porn. The author's mind seems to have been softened by too many hours in a Malibu Jacuzzi. As if searching for a new definition of vulgarity, Jong writes that hostile criticism of her first novel makes her think of "Jews gassed at Auschwitz." (Actually, Fear of Flying was extravagantly overpraised.) She also contrives to turn the tragic suicide of Poet Anne Sexton (named "Jeannie...
Just now, Linda is cooling out in Los Angeles after months of bashing about in planes and buses like a piece of lost Samsonite. Her new puppy Jenny has excavated the garden of her Malibu beach house and needs reasoning with. Her friend, Songwriter Karla Bonoff, is recording her first solo album and needs Linda to sing backup. Her teapot needs to have tea in it. She needs to lie on her beach and let her mind float out to sea. She needs to shop for a dress to wear to the Grammy Awards ceremonies (where she is a solid...
...Malibu is not real, however, because there is no checkout time. Rock musicians live in baggage-claim areas and hotel suites. Last month she hit Washington as if it were any other one-night stand, sang at Jimmy Carter's Inaugural concert ("I was so nervous. My God, I was awful!") and then, on a whim, freighted on to Manhattan to watch a performance of NBC's Saturday Night show and to hang out with actors and rock friends. New York's Plaza, that swan-bosomed dowager among luxury hotels, has become a favorite roosting place...