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Just another autumn Friday night in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The usual mixture of hoboes and bohoes, kids out for a good time and jolly parasites out to feast on them. Around midnight, 400 or so young people have lined up on either side of the Eighth Street Playhouse box office. Their behavior is genial and gentle, with no rock-concert jostling; there might be an invisible Sister Mary Ignatius patrolling the sidewalk. One couple chats in Portuguese; a trio converses in Czech. It's a U.N. in miniature--so much so that when a derelict wanders by, desperate...
...Eighth Street regulars consider themselves the college of cardinals for this amiable sacreligion; that must make Sal Piro the pope of Greenwich Village. Piro, a tubby, T-shirted imp of 35, was just a member of the audience when Rocky mania started blooming a few blocks away at the Waverly Theater in 1976-77. But now he has seen the film 873 times and cheerleads a half-hour pre-show routine in a style that blends the early Jerry Lewis with the late Paul Lynde. Tonight Sal does a little break-dancing. He asks for a show of hands from...
...Nobel Peace Prize, thus accomplished what other church and city leaders had failed to do. Although New York offers facilities for AIDS sufferers, neighborhood groups have blocked hospices in their areas. Backed by Mayor Edward Koch and New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, Mother Teresa persuaded Greenwich Village residents to allow St. Veronica's Church to open its rectory to 14 dying AIDS patients. The first three: prisoners from the state penitentiary at Ossining, released by Governor Mario Cuomo...
...word came that 9½ Weeks will hit theaters in February. Will the final edited R version live up to the flick's overheated reputation? Well, it seems that Lyne's cooler instincts prevailed. "I wasn't anxious to make an art film to be seen by 15 people in Greenwich Village," he says. "I wanted to get the couple in Ohio who will argue about the picture on the way home." For sophisticated world travelers, though, there is talk that the European version will be a tad more explicit...
Dylan and Shelton had been getting along fine ever since the singer showed up in Greenwich Village in 1961 and the author, then a music reviewer for the New York Times, turned in a rave. The two became cronies and, for a time, neighbors. Shelton's evocations of the Village folk scene in the '60s are affectionate but level, describing Dylan's stormy and formative love affair with Suze Rotolo, which inspired many of his early tunes, and bringing bemused skepticism to Dylan's own tales of his arrival in Manhattan ("Cats would pick us up and chicks would pick...