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Flaws like these, combined with Bowie's apparent inexperience with his exotic fuseboxes, relegate Low to the category of "interesting experiment." They don't seem in character; did the man who fell to earth land on his head? When the creator of Ziggy Stardust begins to sound like Star Trek soundtracks, you can't help wondering. "Changes" is right: rock 'n rollers have gotten older, and they cannot expect him to retrace old footsteps. But in this redefinition of his idiom, David Bowie has a long way to travel...
...minds of Super Bowl fans. Super Bowl means time to put the money down, whether it is for $1 office pools or high-roller stakes. It is the biggest day of the year for bookies; estimates of the amount wagered range as high as $260 million. At the Stardust Lounge in Las Vegas, where Super Bowl betting is done legally, fans flock to the windows. Says the lounge's manager: "They'll come here out of the cracks of walls?from Texas, the Midwest, everywhere?to watch the game and bet." The word among bookies on the biggest Super Bowl...
None of this will matter much to those helplessly in thrall to the Hollywood mystique. Tryon's gloomy moralizing about crowned heads is window dressing; his loving reconstruction of a fading era is the work of a man still gaga over Stardust. Crowned Heads is not a very trenchant study of the ways of the Dream Factory, but it is certainly a symptom of them...
...getting a lower price from Mobster Moe Dalitz, when trying to buy his Stardust Hotel: "You may be surprised how many times a man like Moe will make concessions for a friend. I mean, for example, that I believe Moe would go further as a gesture of personal friendship to you than he ever would as the result of negotiating pressure brought by me. You see, if I try to bargain Moe into a deal, his pride asserts itself and he says 'Never!' Whereas as a favor and gesture of personal friendship to you ... Moe might easily...
Glitter, however, was only one facet of Bowie's early work. The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane were concerned as much with mortality as with kinky sex. Bowie's lyrics reflected a fascination with aging and its immanence. On "Changes" he despairs that "Time may change me/but I can't trace time" and warns "rock'n'rollers" to turn and face the changes for ever they get older. And on "Cracked Actor" he paints a gruesome portrait of superannuated sex--"Forget that I'm fifty cause you just got paid/Suck, baby, suck, give...