Word: rocker
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Recurrent sleazy skirmishes between male musicians and female groupies are sexual battles in which the women always lose, and being around the carnage is uncomfortable. In the movable madhouse of life on the road, the unisex nourishments are drugs and booze. Janis Joplin, the first great white woman rocker, rattled the bars of the madhouse, but she died of mind solvent...
...then, on a whim, freighted on to Manhattan to watch a performance of NBC's Saturday Night show and to hang out with actors and rock friends. New York's Plaza, that swan-bosomed dowager among luxury hotels, has become a favorite roosting place for wealthy rockers (Ringo was there too). To Linda, the Plaza was just one more stop on the road, but it provided a splendid scenic view of the lady rocker rampant...
Live with a musician, and the tension and jealousies become a web too complicated to negotiate. And for a rocker it's always easy to check out-poof!-and travel on to the next town...
...fans and cause undue mirth among audience members who know the difference between Paul Williams and Phil Spector. If Streisand and Peters condescend to the music, they graciously allow rock audiences the chance to cheer for true genius. A concert sequence, where the debuting Barbra brings a hostile rocker audience to their feet with the wonder of her funkiness, is a milestone of piquant absurdity, equivalent, perhaps, to having Kate Smith conquer Woodstock...
...become a star of the rowdiest brand of country rock -honky-tonk. Were he in a larger town, promoters and agents would be nervously pinching their digitals. But this is a languid evening in Fort Pierce, Fla., Stewart's home town, and the squeak of a front-porch rocker is music enough for now. Besides, one must rest after a supper of pork chops and okra. Digestion is a ritual, a time for introspective belching. "It stays nice and slow here," Stewart sighs. "Everybody's family. It's the South, and I'll never leave...