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...Manhattan's Basin Street East last week was itching for action. "Ole!" they shouted. "Ole! Ole!" Thus encouraged, the Tijuana Brass let loose with its patented version of The Lonely Bull. It was ole all the way. Grinning and joking like a bunch of frat brothers at a stag party, Trumpeter Herb Alpert and his side-burned sidemen served up a dozen tamale-flavored numbers that had the audience rocking in their seats. It is the middle-aged man's answer to rock 'n' roll, and it is called Ameriachi...
...though it seemed like nothing more than a feature-length, slightly bowdlerized stag movie, such eroductions are turning out to be the Japanese film industry's most effective weapon in its death struggle with television. TV sets are now in 80% of the nation's households; cinema attendance is down a disastrous 60% since 1960; and movie houses are going under at the rate of 500 a year. The only way to lure the Japanese back to the theaters, the industry concluded three years ago, was to show them something they could not see on TV. Titles like...
...last week, the Metropolitan Opera's George Shirley daubed his face with a pinkish cream, molded layers of face putty across his high cheekbones and along his nose. The makeup had nothing to do with his role in the U.S. premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The Stag King. It is a ritual that Shirley, 31, performs before every opera, a mask to disguise one of his real-life characteristics-that he is a Negro...
...Stag King, a kind of atonal A Midsummer Night's Dream, the night belonged to Shirley, costumed in an oversized crown and half mask. An in stinctively gifted actor, he also displayed a lyrical, handsomely rounded voice, which prompted one Manhattan critic to declare: "Here, at last, is a tenor who might some day aspire to the supreme place still occupied by Richard Tucker." Though Henze's modernist fantasy was received with some eyebrow-raising by the Santa Fe audience, Shirley drew a rousingly enthusiastic ovation...
Scoping It In. In coed climes there is some mixed viewing, but "most of the comments preclude having a date," says a Stanford Sigma Chi. Watching "all those fine young bods sway" just seems more comfortable stag. And of course the boys like to "scope in the sports real deep," a time when any self-respecting female would prefer doing almost anything else...