Word: olivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should television be liable for inspiring such violent crime? Last week the Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to try an $11 million negligence suit filed by the victim, Olivia Niemi, and her mother, Valeria Pope Niemi, against NBC and the Chronicle Publishing Co., owners of KRON-TV. Niemi's lawyer, Marvin Lewis, charges that by depicting a graphic rape scene in a movie aired at 8 p.m., when many children are watching, the network and the station are responsible for her daughter's rape...
...Stigwood hopes. Grease, the film version of the long-running Broadway play, will be the first out, and is probably the safest bet. Set in a '50s high school, it stars Pop Singer Olivia Newton-John and Travolta, who has already scored a huge success as a '70s greaser in Saturday Night Fever. "It's going to be a '70s look at the '50s," says Director Randal Kleiser. "Stylistically, the actors will stop and break into song-that's old-but we are using all the '70s film techniques we can muster, like...
...Love Me (Let Me Know)," another of the album's country selections, Olivia again tries to put the moves on her audience. The song starts off like any standard country tune, with the cliche of a twanging guitar, but instead of hearing some powerful down-home voice, we hear Olivia's sighing...
...doesn't really matter what Olivia Newton-John sings. She could probably make selections from Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, popular country or rock songs. Her producers realize that the best way to guarantee top record sales is to put as much of Olivia's picture on the jacket as possible...
This blatant use of pure sexuality to sell records is not a welcome trend, since it could discourage some real talents who don't have Olivia's gasping voice or beautiful face. But if you don't have anything on your walls, buy this album, throw away the record and tastefully decorate your room with Olivia. She's much better than gray cinder blocks...