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Many hotels would rather entertain a cyclone in their corridors than be patronized by a freewheeling rock group and its entourage. But Los Angeles' Continental Hyatt House, located on the Sunset Strip within minutes of no fewer than 32 record companies, has decided to take advantage of its location by welcoming-and indulging-pop musicians. The result, according to TIME'S David DeVoss, is that the garish, twelve-story hotel has become a psychedelic pantheon for anybody seeking a Woodstock ambience with a bacchanalian bounce. DeVoss's report...
...Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder utilized his detailed knowledge of Hollywood decadence in writing the Oscar-winning screenplay to an all-that-glitters-is-not-sequins sunset city epic. William Holden gurgles the narration from his face down predicament in Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, but after the devastingly effective shot of Miss Swanson descending the spiral staircase, it is understandable why he chose to watch the action from that vantage point. One gets the feeling that only those who have seen this peculiar type of behavior will appreciate it, and maybe even they wouldn't. Channel...
Born and raised in Michigan, where his father manufactures auto parts, McGuane cannot remember a time when he did not want to write. At ten he collaborated on a novel with the boy next door until they got into a fistfight over the description of a sunset. Now his favorite writers include Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck ("Someone else no one will admit was any good") plus Turgenev, Chekhov and Knut Hamsun. The depth of McGuane's reading can be seen in the sophistication of his prose. "I have been sloppy in my approach to being an artist," he says...
...outfit called Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, at Paul's Mall, and will be there this week. You might also want to struggle out to Lenox and catch America at Tanglewood, seeing as how their Boston concert was cancelled. Judy Collins warbles (ouch) at Suffold Downs for the Sunset Series, Monday night, and the New York Dolls are booked into a place out in Revere. Where else. --F.V.B...
...Lenox and see The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Don't ask questions, just do it. Ella, with The World's Greatest Jazz Band, at Suffolk Downs, for the Sunset Series, July...