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...Mine and No One Here Gets Out Alive, a fisheyed life of the late Jim Morrison - have only rock in common. The Morrison opus, which has remained high on the trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs of Shelley Winters. The Harrison book, on the other hand, is so baroque that it seems like the whimsical indulgence of a laird with enough money to buy into NATO...
...best thing about One for the Road may be that-flaws and all-it is even better to watch than listen to. Hi-fi meets scifi. Kink crazies can snap up a record, then clip the coupon that comes with it and send off for a video tape that shows the lads in full...
...hour man in this business. I'm only 19, and damn, there are so many things I'd like to be doing." In a rare burst of youthful candor he says, "First thing I'll do when I turn pro is buy the best hi-fi set in the whole wide world." He hesitates, then adds, "No, that will be second. The first is to find my mother a house in Puerto Rico...
...changes costumes, wigs and personalities to deflate the husband's romantic notions. Director Bliss Hebert wittily stages the action with an array of modish accouterments undreamed of by Schoenberg, including Visa cards and telephones with TV monitors; Maxine Willi Klein's sleek set looks like a sci-fi Better Homes and Gardens; and the cast, especially Soprano Mary Shearer as the wife, delivers a slyly spirited performance. Slight as it is, this is the kind of production that Schoenberg's reputation could use more of. Even the sort of people who only played tennis with him could...
Back in 1971, Philip José Farmer abandoned the sci-fi world of space opera with a book that introduced this "Riverworld," titled To Your Scattered Bodies Go. In a tantalizing curtain raiser, Sir Richard Francis Burton, searcher for the source of the Nile, translator of The Arabian Nights, soldier, swordsman and linguist, dies in Trieste in 1890 (as did the historical Burton). Moments later-or is it millenniums?-he awakens, naked and bewildered, on the bank of the river. Burton's reaction is entirely in character. While other resurrectees stagger about in shock, the world's most...