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...with a trucker. "Sam is like an old dog you sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes by the CB monicker "Pigpen" in Convoy. "Sam's a pain in the ass, but we all want to be part of his gang. He's a genius, the bastard...
...only a year of odd jobs behind her, she did not have the exact skills suited to Manhattan's job market. But her grandfather had been Ernest Hemingway, so she had a well-known name. And though some of the guys in Sun Valley used to call her "Pigpen," she was tall and blonde. Anyway, a girl can dream...
...Noah and Almira were in the second grade, their white teacher made Almira stand in a wastebasket all afternoon-because, Noah explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father was in jail for a murder the child had witnessed). She became one of the school's infamous "bad kids," outwardly "as appealing...
Died. Ron ("Pigpen") McKernan, 27, scruffy blues singer and harmonica player with the Grateful Dead, the San Francisco rock group whose loud, countrified rhythm-and-blues has been a staple of the West Coast counterculture since the mid-'60s; from as yet undetermined causes (he had recently been under treatment for liver disease); in Corte Madera, Calif...
...concert, I agree the Riders were superfluous, but the Dead are still the only group who give you your money's worth at a concert. Five, six, seven hours of listening to Garcia and watching that good-lookin' dude Pigpen--who could ask for more? Especially with Godcheaux, who really fills out their sound well--a welcome addition indeed. After the concert, there are some pretty great tapes about that the Dead have let circulate, which is much more than I can say for most groups...