Word: offbeaters
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Though Rotel never advertises, its tours are booked up months in advance. A typical group of Rotelmates includes not only cash-strapped young and elderly travelers but also well-to-do tourists with a taste for the offbeat. "We cater to a special sort of clientele," Höltl admits. "Most of those who sign up come back." From his tour profits, Rotelier Höltl has built a deluxe, 200-room Bavarian-style inn in his native Tittling. There, at prices ranging up to $40 a day, Rotel veterans who have seen the world from the windows of Holtl...
...curious to find a director with Arthur Perm's taste for the offbeat involved in a project that is, bottom line, just another private-eye flick. But under the pressure of his talent and ambition, Night Moves becomes more entertaining and more interesting than it basically has any right...
...fast catching up with Ted Patrick, the black San Diego-based religious bounty hunter who helps parents recapture and "deprogram" young people who have joined offbeat sects. In May, Patrick was convicted in Fullerton, Calif., for unlawfully imprisoning a 19-year-old Hare Krishna adherent. Last week he received his sentence: a 60-day jail term, which he will appeal. The California case could cause Patrick more trouble in Colorado; he was convicted on a charge of false imprisonment in Denver last year, but placed on probation and ordered not to practice his specialty on adult cultists without their consent...
...Miss. At the other extreme is the Fine Arts School, where students make their own weekly schedules, work at their own pace, call teachers by their first names, and have a choice of more than 50 courses, 28 of them arts-oriented. Among the others are such offbeat courses as Coping with Death and Organic Gardening. Some Fine Arts students are writing a blues rock musical; others tour the city in an old school bus and give free performances as a "School of the Street...
...telephone. Calling up Barbra Streisand or Paul Newman can be difficult. "It's not easy to get that one good quote from a celebrity," says him up at Macintosh, noon." "especially if you wake To illustrate the section, Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson scans hundreds of photos for offbeat images of "name" names. "We're not just looking for any old king or billionaire," Stephenson says. "People have to have qualities that have captured the imagination of millions, like Jackie O. or Liz Taylor. We especially like out-of-character shots or incidents." The New York staff...