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...going to be hot!" But the real celebrity fun comes with the far less recognizable faces--the Corey Harts and Quarterflashes that dominated the mainstream pop of the late '70s and early '80s. In one segment John Waite performs his only hit single, Missing You, wearing a gauze scarf and looking like David Duchovny digitally reinserted into a Wham! video. If that isn't diverting enough, there are always plenty of women dancing in handkerchief skirts while Dick Clark plays his role of well-preserved geezer-voyeur to a tee. Chatting up a perky audience member with feathered hair...
...congregate here each day, and like children at a wishing well, they cannot resist leaving tokens behind. Nudged into the 8-ft.-high grid are tin medallions of the Virgin Mary, polyester roses, a phone card with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, an Afro pick, a flowered scarf, a globe key chain, poems and prayers on scraps of paper, crucifixes made from twigs and, in this Easter season, scores of green palm fronds carried straight from the city's churches. One person took off his tennis shoes, scribbled a note on them and tied them to the fence...
...Look at that," I said to my wife. "The poor guy was so nervous that he forgot to take off his scarf when he came in. He's probably going to end up thanking the wrong wife in his acceptance speech...
...eight years later, I was watching the Oscars on television, when someone who had just won for Best Screenplay went up to collect his Oscar wearing a white silk scarf around his neck...
...remember, he was composed enough to make a speech of surpassing pretentiousness. He was wearing his scarf indoors on purpose and not because the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion had developed some bad drafts...