Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOLLYWOOD: THE SELZNICK YEARS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Henry Fonda narrates this special on the career of Movie Producer David O. Selznick with some rarely seen film clips and comments from Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Joseph Cotten, Alfred Hitchcock, Janet Gaynor and Dorothy McGuire...
...young, too, are exploiting the boom, although less cynically. A California rock group called The Fool has recorded several zodiacal songs?not because they believe only in astrology, but because they feel generally tuned in to the entire occult world (the Fool is the card in the fortunetelling Tarot deck that stands for Man). "This is a very brilliant generation," says Kiyo, a young half-Japanese astrologer who works mostly among pop groups and folk singers. "They're interested in astrology because they've found the material things failing them, and they're trying to find their souls." In Manhattan...
...politicians and businessmen. "News management, news manipulation and assaults on the integrity of the working press," said the Review in its first issue, "are commonplace in this tight little city." Editors go along "through conspiracies of silence." Many newsmen, the journal added, are also guilty: "They learn not to rock the boat or they cultivate cynicism-the hardboiled, hard-drinking kind that is supposed to make Chicago newspapermen so colorful." The Review hopes to change that by promoting "a professional consciousness among our fellow newsmen-to let them know that their battle to stay 'pure...
...which adds up to a great book. In view of the flood of third rate books on rock now hitting the market it is especially important that Paul Williams' Outlaw Blues not be submerged...
...other controversies plaguing rock concern the merits of the Doors and the Beach Boys. Both groups have pockets of passionate defenders who try to counter the majority opinion which is overwhelmingly critical. Paul Williams is an important and influential voice who makes an articulate and gripping defense of both groups. In particular Williams thinks extraordinarily highly of the Beach Boys and of their guiding spirit Brian Wilson. He devotes nearly 50 pages of the book to exploring Brian Wilson's psyche and enthusing over the Beach Boys' music. The net effect is certainly to force one to reconsider...