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...describes his precious finds. "Besides the bricks, I went to each of The Beatles' homes and picked up gravel and sticks. Of course at Abbey Road, I had to take my shoes off and walk across like Paul. It was January, and God, it was cold." The gathered fans nod solemnly--spellbound and envious. "I went through the garbage cans at Apple. I found the bill from when John ordered cartons of Dr. Pepper shipped from California. Just as I was leaving Apple, Paul goes by on a bike. He gives me a V-sign; I took a picture...
...Boston's 23 patrolwomen (out of a total force of 2601) got the nod to cover the Faneuil Hall beat for the meeting, where organizations such as the National Organization for Women and Woman Power Newsletter spent almost two hours skeptically questioning HEW's Gwenn Gregory about the new guidelines. The Boston police officer was right, you could count the number of men in the 300 occupied seats on your hands--and half of them were the camera crews for local television stations. But just in case there was any trouble the officer had assigned a big burly male sargeant...
...guests, the President talked of continents and whole peoples, he embraced millions with the wave of his hand, summed up countries in a few sentences, looked back over centuries with a nod...
Towne's script makes a nod to another Los Angeles mystery writer, Ross MacDonald, most markedly in its use of familial trauma in the plot solution. But it is to Chandler that the movie is very deeply indebted. No film has ever succeeded quite so well as Chinatown in conveying the ambience of Los Angeles before the war-sun-kissed, seedy and easy. The city was a central metaphor for Chandler, and it is brought alive here by Polanski and his collaborators, Production Designer Richard Sylbert and Costume Designer Anthea Sylbert. The film was photographed by John Alonzo...
...Budget Watchers: The Deerfield (Mass.) Inn, where weekenders can "nod off in Colonial bliss" in a $10 double room after a day touring one of New England's handsomest villages...