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Closing a mini-panel on the art and utility of video, video producers, RockAmerica, offered a sampling of their wares. After segments by Red Rocker and Brian Brain they unfortunately aired a piece by the Surf Punks, title "Shark Attack" Boston Rock's Music Seminar issue had reviewed this particular piece and the audience supported their verdict "It looks like it was made by the same people who make porno flicks," the hosting publication read. "And to top it off, the song is awful...
...knows what he is. "I'm a rompin', stompin', piano-playin' son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch. But a great son of a bitch." Here's to you, then, Jerry Lee Lewis, unreconstructed rocker and mean-mouthed, sweet-souled Louisiana country singer. A new twelve-album set, Jerry Lee Lewis: The Sun Years, covers the glory years from 1956 to 1963 and is assembled with the kind of reverence and archival zeal usually reserved for the cantatas of a J.S. Bach. The collection, sold in this country for under...
...potential audience of 1.2 million, only about 130,000, or 11%, opted to pay $10 to watch the show, which stars Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, George Rose and the rocker Rex Smith. Moreover, in its first weekend, the movie earned a meager theater box office of $255,000, as well as the enmity of exhibitors, who resented Universal's undermining of their customary exclusive on movie premieres. Says Mitchell Neuhauser, associate executive director of the Independent Theater Owners Association: "Exhibitors don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...
...conventional expectations is, of course, Forsyth's specialty. If one sometimes wishes Forsyth could more often keep his eye on the comic point, it is also true that he finds his best material out there on the periphery, at the edge of the frame. What is a punk rocker doing in the rural highlands? Why does that motorbiker keep burp-burping through the action without explaining himself? Forsyth isn't telling. He's just laughing to himself, a shy, shrewd film maker worth bending near so you can hear what he has to say amidst the contemporary...
Some of the "looks" featured in the calendar include "punk rocker," "California Golden Girl," "preppy," and "athletic female jock" (pictured at right...