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...idea, actually, was to use the wall to create publicity for a Roaring Twenties restaurant he was representing, but the restaurant owner thought the whole idea was, well, perhaps a little too roaring. "So I just kept it," Patey recalls. He reassembled the wall and showed it at a wax museum, with gun-wielding gangsters shooting each other in front of it to the accompaniment of recorded bangs. The wax museum went bust. The wall made its last appearance at a Vancouver nightclub, and then Patey dismantled and stored the thing. Now, if any nostalgia enthusiast feels nostalgia...
...Lafite Rothschild and other French pedigrees in some blind tastings. When French experts sent him a praising letter, he wrote back: "Why don't you lower your import barriers?" The visitor gets the idea that Heitz would have done well even if he were making caps or car wax instead of wine...
...Hollywood keeps going at its present rate, rock stars may soon become the most ubiquitous movie folk heroes since cowboys had their heyday. Already this year we have seen films about the rise of '50s Deejay Alan Freed (American Hot Wax), the advent of the Beatles (/ Wanna Hold Your Hand) and the swan song of The Band (The Last Waltz). Now comes The Buddy Holly Story, a biopic about the pioneer rocker who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959. In many ways this film resembles the rest of the crop: it is rousing, if imperfect...
...Friday: A Night in Casablanca, 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, Love Happy, 3, 6:05, 9:10; Saturday and Sunday: Julia, 3:45, 7:45, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, 2, 5:50, 9:45; Friday and Saturday midnight show, American Hot Wax...
Ticket Agent: You speak French! (he salutes): What joys! Vive the States United! May I wax your elbow...