Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening I arrived there, we drank ale out of large goblets and I watched Harriet light the kerosene lamps. I tried to picture the upper middle class high school cheerleader my cousin had married. I remembered his spacious Coral Gables house with its electronic gadgetry and heated swimming pool and compared it to the room I sat in, scented with burning wood and plump pork chops, sizzling in the old-fashioned black oven. The small wooden farm house had neither electricity nor running water. One room served as the living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. A ladder...
Malibu's middle-aged gentry may be excused for labeling this young Englishman an eccentric. Lifetime subscribers to Sunset magazine cannot conceive of anyone placing a tangerine pool table around the corner from a mirrored King Henry VIII fourposter. Bergère ottomans never should be buffeted by the whizap of a Death-Race Videogame. But when one has money, things bizarre are described, politely, as eclectic. Says Moon: "It's just a quiet place to escape the madness, a little English manor house with modern conveniences...
Uncontrolled well describes the $200,000 house that Record Producer Al Kooper rebuilt three years ago. It is designed for a person who has nothing to do. Rooms not filled with games (pool, pong, pinball) are studded with dials, toggles and buttons of the "Koopertronics" recording system. Says he: "I built it all myself. It's a ludicrous house for a ludicrous person. But I love...
British Bluesman John Mayall, 43, has a different idea of flash. The floor of his pool has a huge erotic painting. He has one of L.A.'s most extensive collections of pornography. Perched atop a ridge, Mayall's $230,000 house has a Tudor-style living room festooned with saddles and snakeskins. But Hogarth prints lead up winding stairs to a large alphabetized porn library...
...filming scenes with Co-Star Candice Bergen, the perfectionist director was equally demanding. Says Giannini: "We must have embraced each other 600 times." · Most dancers do their plies at the bar, but one of the New York City Ballet's principal dancers also practices hers in the pool. In the Water Beauty Book (St. Martin's Press; $10), Allegro Kent, 39, demonstrates how she keeps in shape with aquatic acrobatics, using plastic water wings. "I try to undulate like a sea anemone with them," she says. "When I wear them, I feel that...