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Avant-garde French moviemakers study Hollywood directors, who return the compliment. Basic rock 'n' roll, formed in the U.S., peaked in England with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who proceeded to influence U.S. music. The French invented the discothèque, but the discaīre at New Jimmy's in Paris plays mostly American records. Italian coffeehouses proliferate in big U.S. cities, while the Italians wear Jantzen swimsuits on their beaches. Japanese transistor radios, TVs and tape recorders do as well in New York as James Baldwin's novels in Tokyo or Edward Albee...
...since it opened in 1962, almost incredibly exclusive (the membership fee of $84 a year is a trifle compared with the need for the "proper credentials"). Time: a weekday night. After a late, after-the-theater supper with friends at Annabel's, London's leading discothèque (which happens to be right downstairs), the handsome son of a peer breezes up for "a spot of chemmy." Chairs are found for his group to watch; drinks are passed. In three hours, playing with flair, he wins $210,000. Satisfied, but not flaunting his coup, he departs. But before...
...Starlet Sue Kingsford in a two-piece pink trouser suit with a lovely stretch of naked turn, Los Angeles-born Pop Artist Jann Haworth Blake, Detroit-born Negro Model Donyale Luna. Later, with Michael Rainey, 25, owner of Hung On You, she dances at Dolly's discothèque in Jermyn Street, where the deafening beat comes from the Action, the Stones, the Who, the Animals, the Mindbenders, and Cilia Black, and the right drink (at 98?) is Campari and soda-because it is red and tickles. Dances have no names in London any more. "You just dance...
...world grows nostalgic at the thought of Paris' famed outdoor cafes and its deep discothèque caves. That is, everyone except the Parisians. In recent years, the young yé-yé set has been crossing the street from St. Germain-des-Prés's venerable Les Deux Magots and swinging into Le Drugstore for a short-order hamburger or a fairly auhentic banana split. What with its dazzling array of drugs, chewing gum, model airplanes and racks full of Playboy, the delights of Le Drugstore are inexhaustible. But now there is a new- and equally...
...minimum of one full day a week to his paper, and he writes many of its editorials. On the day after the New York power failure last November, it was on Chalk's order that El Diario ran a black front page with the white words: POR QUE...