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...come with the territory if a Miss America expresses thespian designs. With the exception of Bess Myerson (1945), winners seem to find sustaining a career in the public eye more difficult than gaining the title. Rosemary LaPlanche (1941) is not much remembered today, though she made 84 movies, including Strangler of the Swamp and Devil Bat's Daughter. Lee Meriwether (1955) has had roles enough, but her name has failed to attain the tip of the national tongue. Mary Ann Mobley (1959) made those Elvis Presley films, and has had trouble shaking the image ever since. Mobley...
...Hillside Strangler"case, shrinks, as usual, differ...
...time his lawyer began plea-bargaining last October, the hard evidence was there. Kenneth Bianchi, 27, a Bellingham, Wash., security guard was in deed the Hillside Strangler, responsible for the murder of ten young women in Los Angeles from September 1977 to February 1978 - as well as two later killings in Washington that resulted in his arrest...
...Long Run suffer from the same malady as "Greeks"--the band's unfamiliarity with new styles. The Eagles are good at solid lyrics and sing-along tunes, but they have trouble trying to create the more ambitious moods they strive for in cuts like "Teenage Jail" and "The Disco Strangler." The problem here is that the band buries its talents in an attempt to say something new; the messages are too specific, the music too strong...
...grace," "lonely crowd") and firing them off like salvos. The song becomes unwieldy, but its graceful melody rescues it. Henley and Frey have better luck closer to home, in the jokey, hokey bacchanal of The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks or the sly ironies of The Disco Strangler (a collaboration with String Player Don Felder) and King of Hollywood, in which a hard-hustling mogul is nailed neatly in two fleet lines: "He's just another power junky/ Just another silk-scarf monkey...