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...Misbehavin' attempts to recreate the atmosphere of a jumping nightspot, like the Cotton Club, in the Harlem of the 1930s. The performers belt out the songs, pushing each other out of the spotlight in mock rivalry. If the mood suits them, they'll spring to their feet to tap out a furious rhythm, or languidly drape themselves across the piano-player on the stage, who frequently joins in the refrain. On more than one number, they exhort the audience to join...
...worries about terrorism, Italy's more than 30,000 hotels are booked solid. Illegal tents have popped up all along the coast in spite of police fines of as much as $95. Prices have gone wild on Sardinia's ritzy Costa Smeralda, where, at one Porto Cervo nightspot, a dish of ice cream costs $7.50 and a dinner tab of $175 a person is paid without a wince. "Porto Cervo is just one big slot machine," says one bemused American tourist. "Nobody cares." Italian vacationers obviously have the same blithe attitude toward water pollution as their counterparts...
...ironic that businesses with names like the No Name Bar and The Chocolate Soup (a children's clothes store) now so proliferate that only an innocent would suffer a double take on learning that an orchestra called The Widespread Depression happened to be performing last week at a nightspot called The Other End. That is in Greenwich Village, where some runners trade at a store called The Athlete's Foot...
...series of bits that are far too hot for TV's Saturday Night Live. We watch the homoerotic rituals of a fraternity initiation and the orgiastic excesses of an all-night "toga" party. In one funny if discomforting scene, white students show up at a black nightspot and try, without notable success, to display some soul. Animal House ends with a where-are-they-now epilogue that demolishes the sentimental finale of American Graffiti, also...
...tough act to follow, but Singer Georgia Holt is ready to face the music. Holt, nee Jackie Jean Crouch 51 years ago in Kensett, Ark., happens to be the mother of another warbler: Cher. When Mom took the mike at a West Hollywood nightspot, Studio One, last week, Cher and her sister, Actress Georganne LaPiere, were in the audience cheering wildly. For Holt, the stint was actually a refrain. As a youngster, she used to hit the notes on the radio and in saloons across the West. This time around, Holt has hopes of cutting an album and making...