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...meant to be a vehicle for his wife, Actress Susannah York, but Writer Michael Wells' newest play looks more like a ride she should have avoided. The Great Ban, which opened in London's Soho district last week, stars York as a former actress who lapses into confused reveries, childhood recollections, and a brief impression of Marilyn Monroe...
...have got back to the point where we can look at a massive heavy shape without thinking it backward and funky, or parroting the once obligatory cliches about Stonehenge. An exhibition very much to the point opened this month at the Sculpture Now Gallery in Manhattan's Soho: some 30 tons of granite and steel by James Buchman, 26, a Memphis-born sculptor who lives on a farm in Vermont. It is the most promising first one-man show in Manhattan this season...
Kenneth Lennon was on the run when he wandered into Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London's Soho district one night earlier this month. He also was drunk. George Melly, a blues singer and former film critic for the Sunday Observer, had never seen him before, but Lennon insisted on buying Melly a brandy. "He seemed pretty frightened," Melly recalls, "but the fear was covered with drink, and drink had given him a certain courage...
...Shinjuku, Tokyo's equivalent of New York's Greenwich Village or London's Soho, the facades of at least 1,000 clubs throw off all the colors of the rainbow. Inside, the thermostats seem to have been raised, not lowered; customers peel off their jackets, and even the bikini-clad B-girls perspire in the heat. At a restaurant on the Ginza, the headwaiter reports a more-frenzied-than-usual pace of drinking. "They drink as though this were their last big fling," he says, both gratified and concerned by the booming sales...
...nimble and quick-witted comedienne. The plot line in her film is ultimately as offensive as that of the other two: she's a strong-willed woman who enters into an affair with a married man, but eventually settles into a role as tame and submissive Soho mistress. Still, her dexterity and pungent British wit alone make A Touch of Class worth seeing...