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Dying Planet. David Bowie, rock 'n' roll's self-styled androgyne and master of weirdness, appears, true to form, as an android come to earth in search of water for his drought-ridden planet. He takes the name Thomas Jerome Newton, seeks out a patent attorney named Oliver Farnsworth (nicely played by Buck Henry) and shows him equations for some elementary inventions from his own world. These creations-like self-developing film in fully automatic cameras-become the foundation of a vast industrial empire run by Farnsworth, who is answerable only to the mysterious, reclusive Newton...
...Newton remains part interstellar phantom, part earthbound Howard Hughes. He watches a dozen television sets at once. Newton is also a curiously vulnerable superbeing. He is intrigued by a Southwestern hotel clerk named Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), dogged by a curious scientist named Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn), whom he eventually hires and who betrays him. Newton plans to use his vast industrial resources to build a spacecraft that will return him to his dying planet, the tiny population of which will then be borne to earth. This idea does not go down well on terra firma. People in high places...
...Newton Grove...
...Newton Chamber Orchestra performs Robert Selig's prize-winning cantata, "Islands", the Strauss oboe concerto, and Brahms's Serenade No. 2. Philip Morehead, conductor and Patricia Morehead, oboe soloist...
...MAGAZINE does include some interesting sidelights, such as a continuing contest to discover the earth's erogenous zones. There is also a poetry page in each issue, the latest by Gary Snyder, 1975 Pulitzer prize winner. But this leads to publishing Huey Newton...