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...quite. At a press preview of the première (all shows are taped in advance in Los Angeles without a studio audience), Host Tom Snyder opened with a scathingly opinionated monologue on the Agnew resignation. He castigated the "pious and sanctimonious bilge coming out of Washington" and concluded with the comment: "How dumb do they think we are?" By the time the show went on the air the next morning, however, the network had forced Snyder to retape his opener, omitting his critical broadside...
...some Harvard administrators are sorry the movie was filmed here. An article in the October 13 issue of the Boston Globe suggested that Harvard disowned the movie after its first sneak preview. According to Assistant Dean Stephen Bernardi, Harvard had made no promise to sponsor the movie at its premiere...
FRIDAY: Tora! Tora! Tora! I never saw this $25 million production, but I sure was unimpressed with the preview clips in which the Japs bomb the living shit out of our boys at Pearl Harbor. I imagine there's lots of action and maybe even some blood and gore to sustain the kind of dull plotless romance one generally finds in war movies (and at Harvard). This movie bombed at the box-office and crippled traditional Hollywood in the same way the Japs scuttled the Pacific Fleet. 8:30 on Channel...
...life is inextricably tied into his music. The listener would do well to know of the personal problems Morrison has endured over the last year or so. Never the easiest man to work for, Morrison's domestic life collapsed around him just after the release of St. Dominic's Preview, and his artistic life reflected those changes. He fired, in short order, his band, his manager and his wife. He would, it seemed, sing no more songs of easy domestic bliss. Preview echoed the troubled times masked by "Brown Eyed Girl," and more accurately described by "He Ain't Give...
HERE IS an album that continues Preview's rediscovery of solitude. Its songs are by and large a maze of descending progressions. On first listening, each seems a discrete unit, with a distinctively distanced point of view. Immersion in the album indicates that Morrison has abandoned domesticity, in favor of detachment. He seems to be passing along visions...