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ALEX BROOK'S intimate set contributes to the effect by letting the audience concentrate on the intensities of the characters themselves. A candy and soda store mixing the cheapness of Store 24 and the clutter of the Starr Bookstore in the back of the Lampoon, the set keeps the audience in close to the heat of the action. The overall effect is perhaps a little jumbled, a confusion of Scooter pies and Glad bags, dusty dress-makers' models and today's newspapers. The chaos almost seems better suited to a country antique shop than a store in the heart...
...after playing under Parker and Garland Jeffreys, they are, in comparison, devoid of poetic direction. They seem to have so sense as to what covers work and what don't. The new album contains Randy Newman's "Have You Seen My Baby" (which has also been covered by Ringo Starr) and "Rubber Band Man", a song already perfectly executed by the Spinners...
...sounds is also a form of aural self-defense for some, such as New York TV Producer Anthony Payne, 34. "There are buses, airplanes, sirens," says Payne. "You have to replace them with something louder, by force-feeding your own sounds into your ears." Manhattan Computer Executive Michael Starr, 43, suggests that the private concert "is a great way of snubbing the world. Can you imagine if Philip Roth had had one growing up? He'd never have written Portnoy's Complaint. He never would have heard the nagging...
Moments later, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, both 38, bounded down the steps and on to the reception at a private Mayfair club. Starr, using a pair of overturned champagne buckets as drums and with a little help from his two friends, staged an impromptu jam session. The poignant reunion came after the recording of All Those Years Ago, a musical tribute to John Lennon written by Harrison. It is due out in June as a single and will be a track on his new album. Somewhere in England. The cut was recorded with a pair of Wings...
...camp it up this time, with Ringo Starr as a misfit caveman and sultry Barbara Bach as his Stone Age Circe? Why not, indeed? Writers Gottlieb and DeLuca have risen-no, lowered themselves-to the challenge. Instead of screaming at prehistoric monsters, the audience squeams at a ragtag parade of sight gags and slapstick. And has a wonderful time...