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College students cluster in the lobby of a Pittsburgh Holiday Inn, taking a break from workshop sessions on how to sell textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert...
...Village, but all things considered the Hub's not a bad place to catch some good jazz or blues. The Boston jazz scene generally revolves around Paul's Mall and the Jazz Workshop (both at 267-2051) on Boylston St. Paul's Mall features Muddy Waters and Dixie Dregs through Sunday, while the Jazz Workshop is hosting Pat Metheny (June 27-July 3), Gypsy (June 27-30) and Steve Kuhn (July...
...their enthusiasm. The first week in April, indeed, 6,000 color transparencies from the film were stolen from the production offices; they are now selling for more than $5 each to sci-fi freaks. Some of the spaceship models used for special effects were later stolen from a workshop, and they too are being advertised on the open market. "Star Wars is the costume epic of the future," says Ben Bova, editor of Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines. "It's a galactic Gone With the Wind. It's perfect summer escapist fare...
Though it is gloomier than some previous reports, the conclusion is not brand new. What makes it weighty is its global authorship. The report ("Energy: Global Prospects 1985-2000") is the product of a 2½-year study by the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies, a group organized by MIT Professor Carroll Wilson. He assembled 35 industrial, government and academic experts from twelve oil-importing nations and three exporters: Iran, Mexico and Venezuela. They plotted likely oil demand and supply under a wide range of assumptions: high and low rates of economic growth, "vigorous" and "restrained" government conservation policies...
Willie Bobo--Jazz Workshop...