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...Fools Crows granddaughters. Vine Mae, chose to move away from the rural areas to a federally-constructed cluster housing project in the reservation town of Kyle, where she lives in a three-bedroom house with three children, two sisters, and her sisters' three children. Unlike her grandparents. Vine Mae has central heating, running water, and a telephone. But she is unemployed, and away from the rural areas where people fill time chopping wood, hauling water and preparing for winter. Her only pastime is drinking...
...When I first started, I was just drinking on weekends." Vine Mae says. "Then I started drinking every day. It got so I wouldn't want to go out-side because I was hung over, but I'd have to get off reservation to the bars. I don't know how my kids survived." Though she has given up habitual drinking since, she still describes herself--and all but one of her friends--as alcoholic...
...Although Vine Mae chose to remain on the reservation despite the dearth of jobs, many of Fools Crow's other granddaughters leave every fall in search of employment in off-reservation cities Barbara Rock. Fools Crow's 29-year-old grand daughter, has chosen this option, she lives and works off-reservation most of the year, as she has since she ran away from a reservation-based Catholic boarding school at 14. Most summers, though, when the one-room log cabin behind her grandparents' house is habitable, she returns, as do many of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren living...
There are probably more little houses in the Hollywood area than in any other part of town, but there is no real center, no off-Vine Street, for instance, that could be compared with off-Broadway in Manhattan. Ron Sossi's Odyssey is in West Los Angeles, where it is currently selling out with Something's Rockin' in Denmark, a musical based on Hamlet. J.F. Smith's bare brick-walled Deja Vu, which looks like a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, is on the eastern frontiers of Hollywood Boulevard. The Studio Theater Playhouse, which is currently premiering...
Midnight, Saturday, at Hollywood and Vine. The bizarre cast is pure Fellini, the volatile and menacing atmosphere is classic Clint Eastwood. The trouble is, the scene is real...