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...underline that adolescent sense of wonder, Bradbury refuses to fly ("pure fear") or even to drive ("bicycle's good enough"). Every morning, the oversize kid takes leave of Marguerite and their home in the pleasant Cheviot Hills section of Los Angeles and heads for an office in Beverly Hills. There, amid a clutter of toys, masks, board games and books, he works on at least six projects at a time, continually surprising himself. His current favorite: a space opera about a man once blinded by a comet who murderously seeks it in the void. "Sort of Ahab with jet boosters...
...been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this." In the fashionable Los Angeles community of Cheviot Hills, every mail brings bulging sacks of letters to Alex Haley?all of it evidence of the astonishing impact produced by his saga of a black family's tortuous trail to freedom. Haley thinks he knows why Roots touched all America. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, he explained his own theory of the Roots phenomenon and told how he came to write the book...
...Sunday morning, he picked up four friends-Portsea Neighbors Alan Stewart and Mrs. Marjorie Gillespie, Mrs. Gillespie's daughter Vyner, and Vyner's boy friend, Martin Simpson-and all went looking for a place to swim and sunbathe. "I know," Holt suggested. "Let's go to Cheviot Beach" -a lonely, rocky stretch 21 miles from Holt's beach home, and one of the most dangerous beaches in the Portsea area. When the five arrived, the tide was at crest, and ugly chunks of wood and flotsam bobbed about on the sur face. "I had never seen...
...more than 10,000 Angelenos gathered during the day at Cheviot Hills Recreation Center to hear the thoughts of such speakers as Cassius Clay and Benjamin Spock ("I hate Johnson as much as anyone here...
Filmed in England and at Scotland's Hermitage Castle in the Cheviot Hills, the play-with its bright Highland backgrounds and darkly cloistered interiors-was done in some of the most living color ever seen on television. It was well directed by George Schaefer, who made restrained but effective use of the advantages of film: for the forest-concealed murder of Banquo; for an electronically superimposed vision of his ghost, whose airy lack of substance helped direct attention away from the supernatural and into Macbeth's mind; for the approach of troops, siege ladders, battering rams, and Birnam...