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...Polaroid color photograph might have been the cover of a paperback thriller-or a recruiting poster for the revolutionary left. But the comely, wholesome-looking girl holding a submachine gun was Patricia Hearst, and an accompanying tape recording of her voice carried a bizarre message: Patty, 20, had decided to forsake her millionaire parents and join the fanatics who kidnaped her two months...
...cannot be long before some enterprising museum (the Metropolitan?) opens a '60s Period Room, to go with its transplanted Louis Quinze paneling and reassembled colonial parlor: a Wesselmann and a Warhol Marilyn on the stainless-steel walls, a coffee table strewn with multiples and macadarnia nuts, a Panther poster above the vinyl settee, and under the supergraphic in the corner a waxwork group of Henry Geldzahler hustling that week's trend to a slim, wrinkled matron in bandoleers and Courrèges boots...
...Legend. His full name was Solomon Isaievich Hurok. To his friends he was Sol. To the public, though, it was "S. Hurok Presents," an emblem that invariably appeared atop the newspaper ad, billboard poster or concert program. Beneath it ran names like Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Margot Fonteyn, the Royal Ballet, the Old Vic and, of course, the Russians he so ably promoted and profited by in the U.S.: Pavlova, Richter, Oistrakh, the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera...
...fair. I had always been led to believe that the best team won (in this case Harvard) by a considerable margin. No ifs, ands, or buts. Well, sad to say, sports fans, the real world is not so convenient, simple and pure (How can it be when Ivory Snow poster girl becomes a porno queen...
...downstairs in the Waldorf-Astoria Empire Room, diminutive Joel Grey, 41, was still puttering around naked in his room. The photographer was getting nervous. He had been promised a picture of the 5-ft. 2-in. star wearing his black Ultrasuede tuxedo alongside a life-size poster advertising the entertainer's two-week Manhattan engagement. But Joel's wife Jo was unfazed. "Why don't you take the picture now?" she suggested. So the camera clicked and Sharp Dresser Joel was caught for posterity wearing only a bath towel...