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Ampersand June, 1979 TnTTT T ift HP YV A J U A U V UA 0 0 0 AimroasBaaii Publisher DURAND W. ACHEE Advertising Director Jeffrey A. Dickey Editor-in -Chief Judith Sims Music Editor Byron Laursen Art Director Catherine Lampton Production Chip Jones, Mel Rice Typography Scott Roebuck Office Manager Judy Turner Contributing Editors Colman Andrews, Jacoba Atlas, Martin Clifford, Ed Cray, Len Feldman Advertising Offices Los Angeles Jeff Dickey 1680 N. Vine Street, Suite 201 Hollywood, CA 90028 213462-7175 New York Barney O'Hara, Joan Dorbian, Eileen Eck, Deborah Prevete Barney O'Hara & Associates 105 E. 35th Street New York, NY 10016 212889-8820 Chicago Frank Avery, Jane Jeffrey, Debra Sax Annes Barney O'Hara & Associates 410 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 6061 1 312467-9494 Director of Sales Promotion Jeff Martini New Contributors RICHARD DELAP (In Print) is a sci-fi afficianado, publishing A Guide to Fantasy and Science Fiction and managing something called Science Fiction Con sultants, all in Los Angeles. BRAD FLORY (On Tour) last appeared in Amper sand with a review of ex-radical Jerry Rubin's speechmaking. Rubin, according to the waggish Paul Krassner, has since undergone a self improvement treatment in which he wrote down all the events of his first seven years and stepped on it. " Jeff Kious & Rick Jones (On Tour) who provide the one-two punch on our Doobie Brothers concert reportage, usually get their kicks writing for the Daily Kansan. ZAN STEWART (In Print) is a part-time saxo phonist, radio announcer, and jazz writer who lives in Santa Monica, where he's the scourge of the tennis courts. WALT TUROWSKI (On Tour), Waldemar to his closest friends, our Billy Joel connection summers in Melvindale, Mich., and. winters on the Univer sity of Detroit's Varsity News. 1979 Alan Weston Publishing, Inc., 1680 N. Vine Street, Suite 201, Hollywood, CA 90028. AH rights reserved. Letters become the prop erty of the publisher and may be edited. Pub lisher does not assume any responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts. Published monthly at Los Angeles. In her otherwise unexceptional review of Mikhail Baryshnikov's book on the Soviet Union (Ampersand, April 1979, p. 22) Jacoba Atlas takes a cheap shot at Alexander Sol zhenitsyn. She praises Baryshnikov for his sense of humor and for not being gruesome like his subject matter, and then she says, " he is no Solzhenitsyn demanding his pound of flesh." Her remark suggests that Solzhenit syn is a gruesome, humorless partisan of some sort of vindictive justice. This gro tesque misrepresentation could be ignored if there were not a danger that, together with similar ignorant remarks in the press, it might persuade fair-minded students not to ' read Solzhenitsyn's books. Anyone who has read the Gulag Archipelago must have marvel led at Solzhenitsyn's tranquility of soul in the face of Soviet tyranny. James W. Muller Harvard College Oh'dear. Jacoba Atlas reviewed To Build a Cas tle, which was written by Vladimir Bukovsky. Not Mikhail Baryshnikov. She quoted Baryshnikov. Aren't you embarrassed? Harvard must by cringing. As a copper miner and officer in my trade union local, I was pleased to read your review of the film Norma Rae. Jacoba Atlas gives a refreshing overview of the struggle for con tent that has been a part of the silver screen since Chaplin's first tries. Ms. Atlas sym pathetic attitude towards the working class in general also is a reflection of a hopeful trend in campus politics. I was disappointed therefore to read further on in the issue her review of Bukov sky's book and her advocacy of the "Russian human rights" hysteria. An unbiased ob server must be aware that this is an orches trated campaign waged through the media, and a political campaign waged by the Car ter administration to take the pressure offour own human rights shortcomings and the hor rors of U.S.-supported dictatorships. I found this to be a very emotional subject to discuss for our student and intellectual friends in the movement. I believe that time will show that support for justice for the U.S. working class is inconsistent with support for the Cold War maniacs pulling the strings of the "Soviet Human Rights" Fraud. Pete Leki Tucson, AZ Jacoba Atlas replies: "Although I'm willing to concede that the human rights issue in the Soviet Union has been used by President Carter and others to obscure our own shortcomings, it is nevertheless a fact that Soviet citizens are being jailed, tortured and destroyed for standing up for their human rights. The Soviet government does not do this to benefit President Carter's political chances. Justice for the U. S. working class can never be inconsistent with justice for people in any country. Human rights can never be a fraud in the Soviet Union or the United States." It's an interesting comment on America's record-buying public that out of 1,500 cer tified gold records only six have been classical and of those six only one can be unreservedly recommended in Sol Siegel's survey April Ampersand. And even that one, the Van Cliburn recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, made the charts for extra-musical reasons. In the early days of the recording industry a large percentage of the best-sellers were vocal numbers by artists like Caruso, McCormack, and Alma Gluck when did that kind of material drop out of the charts, I wonder? And why? ... ' C. Walker Indiana University Thanks for the piece on the Clash. (April). College students generally buy extraordinar ily dull rock LPs, and it's pleasing to see a widely circulated publication suchas yours .covering a good band for a change. Raw energy has been replaced by Linda Ronstadt's cooing in most quarters here at Michigan State. Thank God I finally graduated! How 'bout some more on new music in the future and less on derivative, paralyzingly boring American bands. Thanks again! Bob Vermeulen Okemos, MI I read with interest your item about Woodstock II. I have never forgiven my par ents for having me in 1960 (making me only nine years old when Woodstock took place). Now I have a second chance. Where do I write for tickets? Barb Postman . Los Altos, CA For ticket information write to Harriman, 123 E. 54th St., No. 7H, New York, NY 10022, or call (212) 421-0290. You may not get a third chance. Aw, come on, you schmucks! I go and write you a nice fan letter (Ampersand, May, 1979), and then you have to stick me in Bloomington, Illinois. It's Indiana home of Mark Spitz, Jane Pauley, and the world's largest collection of pornographic literature. Goodbye forever. Randy Hassan Bloomington, IND. He are sorry. was a dreadful mistake. We know better, honest. Please come back. About that movie quiz in the. May issue. Question 3: What two actors debuted in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and later ap peared together in Horror Express? Answer given: Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Wrong! Peter Cushing's film career goes back to 1939 when he was in The Man in the Iron Mask. Other pre-Hamlet films include A Chump at Oxford (1940) and They Dare Not Love (l941)- Steven Dhuey Madison, WI Some sharp film buffs may claim that Cushing was only used as a stand-in for Louis Hayward in special effects shots, which were then edited out in processing. This is true, but Cushing also had a bit part in the movie. Just have to say how much I have enjoyed your magazine since I have been reading it here at Purdue University (I notice that Cir cus Magazine always spells our name incorrectly it comes out Purdue). And the best thing about it besides the articles, inter views and movierecord reviews is that this great magazine is free! But I'd gladly pay even a little for Ampersand if I knew where I could get it off campus . . . where is that? One more thing I'd truly like to thank you for remembering Michael Nesmith as a confirmed Nesmith, Tork (Thorkelson), Dolenz & Jones (known collectively a long time, ago as The Monkees) fan, I got all ex-t cited to see you mention him! That man's a talent did you know he hopes to go on tour this summer? Gotta split for class. P.S. I don't always agree with your reviews - Karen Grimberg Highland, IN 46322 Aha! You can subscribe to Ampersand,jou lucky devil. Just send $5 for one year's worth to Amper sand Subscriptions, 1680 N. Vine Street, Suite 201, Los Angeles, CA 90028. And thanks for the kind words. , " Write to Us Many of you have been writing toy our local school papers telling them what a swell publication Am persand is. Don't tell them, tell us! Send epistles to In One Ear, do Ampersand, 1680 N. line Street, Suite 201, Los Angeles, CA 90028. Features Summer '79 Tour Guide "1 O Alusic itineraries A Harrison Ford 1 Q John Wayne or Cesar Romero? A J Summer Movie Guide "I A Handy reference i 1 The World's Smallest Drive-In 1 ? The hot spot of Amenta, NY A J Classical One-Liners 1 f Brief reviews A Zs Billie & Rossi QA Lou Grant's ace reporters jL, J Departments In One Ear A Letters jl & Out the Other ? News & Gossip J On Tour Q New Barbarians, Doobies, Tubes O In Print I A Asimov, jazz, Russia, etc. A A . In Both Ears 1 ? Dicsollsion, auto sound AJ On Disc I p McLaughlin, Hunter, Coltrane AO On Screen O 1 Manhattan, Dreamer, etc. JL A Our Cover Linda Kelsey and Robert IValden, better known as Billie & Rossi on the Lou Grant TV show, were photographed by Andrea Bernstein, a tall Sf lively displaced New Yorker.
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