Word: mckuen
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Nearly everyone has heard of Rod McKuen: he has written 900 songs that have been recorded by other people and sold more than 50 million records; his three books of poetry have sold more than a million copies. In his gritty wreck of a voice, he has recorded 35 albums of his own songs, and last year he wrote the scores for two movies. It was not until last week, though, that McKuen got that ultimate symbol of success: his own TV special, a one-man show on NBC, called "Rod McKuen: The Loner...
Saturday, May 10 ROD McKUEN: THE LONER (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). McKuen, poet, songwriter and recording star, puts on a one-man show...
...SPRING THING (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Love and springtime are the subjects, and Noel Harrison and Bobbie Gentry the objects, with some outside help from Rod McKuen, Goldie Hawn, Shirley Bassey, Irwin C. Watson, Meredith MacRae and the Harpers Bizarre...
...Lonesome Cities, McKuen...
...minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed by the lyrics that Pop Poet Rod McKuen composed to match his banal score. But Same makes his cast perform with the precision and refinement of a repertory company...