The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 44

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 1970 DURHAM MORNING HERALD PAGE 16C Urban Blight Is Detected In Hollywood Jr i yr i But Business Commerce Active Skyscrapers Becoming Plentiful By RAY HEBERT Washington Post-Los Angeles Times News Service HOLLYWOOD On a warm summer evening 31 years ago 5000 wildly cheering movie fans turned out at one of those gala Hollywood premieres at the Pantages Theater It was the night of Aug 10 1939 Universal Pictures set up grandstands and the crowd satisfied with just a glimpse of their stars watched goggle-eyed and applauded a elite paraded into the theater The motion picture Tomorrow with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne was a memorable one the night happy lively exciting A few days ago less than five blocks from the venerable showplace where so many premieres have been held tragedy struck in midafternoon A 68-year-old woman who considered Hollywood her home and was not afraid day or night to walk about freely was stabbed to death by a purse-snatcher In the 31 years between the premiere at the Pantages categories behind downtown Los Angeles and the Wilshire District If new office buildings are a barometer that it has fared well physically in the last few years Many including a 22-story tower completed in 1963 have arisen near the famed intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street and in the Graumans Chinese Theater area at Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue The Hollywood business core after hitting an economic low point in 1953 has made a comeback as a convenient location for white-collar workers but retail establishments have not kept pace There have been at least two proposals for a major new department store on Hollywood Boulevard in recent years but those ideas fell through Other developers have produced plans for a 40-story building complex including a motel and shopping facilities but they too were abandoned After studying Hollywood for three years City Planner Frank Fielding who directed preparation of the new community plan observed: been a lack of faith in Hollywood Plans and ideas came within a hairs breadth of reality But there are signs that things are beginning tion of 230000 to 326000 On the surface Hollywood the place still shows much of the glitter and excitement as well as the business activity of a town trying to live up to its name Yet few people whether they are among the estimated 35 million tourists who visit Hollywood annually or concerned community businessmen can help notice marks of deterioration behind the surface glitter Paint is peeling and plaster is flaking from some buildings bordering the star-studded sidewalk Novelty and schlock shops sprinkle the boulevard Male and female nude shows have invaded some bars Another near Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue advertises nudie art Down a side street only steps away from Hollywood Boulevard bungalows that once were neatly maintained are sadly in need of repair A lawn is overgrown with knee-high grass Despite its contrasts Hollywood has been an active commercial and business center for years ranking third in many BOBO TERRY'S Hour Cleaning "The Best In Dry Cleaning" fl and others at Chinese Theater and and the death of the 68-year-old widow something happened to Hollywood No one can pin down precisely what occurred or when the change started to take place But Hollywood's problems like those of so many other urban communities are partly physical and partly a product of a rapidly changing society Just by chance the day after the woman was murdered the Los Angeles Planning Commission adopted a master plan for Hollywood's physical development the idea being to make it a better place to live It is designed the planners said to restore fading image as the motion picture and entertainment capital of the world It establishes guidelines for a massive Hollywood center a combined entertainment park and business and commercial hub engulfing much of Hollywood Boulevard And it provides guidelines for Hollywood for years an established residential area with a wide range of neighborhoods to grow from its present popula- 1C SALE Recognize These 'Hippies? no 0 hoi One 3 $118 Mon from 1 Monday Nights 6-9 Does not apply to tt1l Specials Day Service Ernest is anxious to make a getaway but Miss Davis is having trouble with her cigarette lighter (AP Wirephoto) Veterans Ernest Borgnine and Bette Davis take on hippie disguise for this scene from now filming in Albuquerque NM Playing the parts of bank robbers The BIRD ft BOTTLE Chapel Hill's Elegant Indoor Picnic Dining in The Continental Fashion Town and Country SHOPPING CENTER Airport Rd-Chapel Hill Specials All Day Tues Wed 7 Pm Day Service MIDWAY Hwy 70 West Onoi Tina urner Can Turn On Middle Americans As Well DADS Demanding To Be Admitted Mrs A Farrow Instalment Loan Cantar Canlral Carolina Bank Building Corcoran Streat invites you to bring your financial problems to her She has the solutions Ask her to tell you about instalment loans for many purposes at lowest rates WICHITA Kan (AP) An 80-member organization called DADS which stands for Dads Attending Delivery is seeking to change the policy at Wichita hospitals that denies a father admittance to a delivery room while his wife is giving birth Mrs John Bair DADS chairman said Wednesday now trying to get public support for the cause going to try everything we possibly can to get the policy changed before filing a She said they have retained an attorney will be prepared to file if other attempts fail Second Feature 'Down We All Go" Ike has provided seem to push Tina higher Everything on the record is danceable a great party record There are also moments of sardonic wit particularly the piano introduction to Poo I ah The pianist seriously plays a flourish of Rachmanioff-like fare and throws in some Jose Iturbi-like Boogie-Woogie figures Then enters Tina simply singing Poo Pah in the funkiest groove imaginable A highlight of the songs from pen is the album title tune a highly melodic and catchy piece that Tina swings almost effortlessly The entire record is a grand tribute to the churning energy and dynamic imagination of the Turners They have found the right touch in blending the old and new Wake Forest Hwy 29 FRIDAY SPECIAL PM FILLET OF FLOUNDER 1-9 rM 4 Big Clint Eastwood Movies TONIGHT! HOWARD Jownson: DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL BOULEVARD TURKEY SHOOT 7:30 pm Each Friday Christmas Gorman Ruritan Club Bv HOLLIE I WEST Washington Post-Los Angeles Times News Service Tina raw and explosive sex has made her the newest love symbol in underground America She also may be slowly and surely extending her appeal to middle America Recent appearances on the Ed Sullivan and Everly Brothers television shows took her writhing undiluted sexual message into mainstream homes The new consciousness must be upon us because Sullivan brought her back for another engagement In addition she has made numerous appearances on the late-night talk shows on TV Tina is a singer first but sex is deeply engrained in her style and she conveys it with powerful drama Springing on stage like a tigress stalking her prey raspy voice may scream out: want to take you higher Baby let me light your fire She stops singing and begins a wildy sinuous her long dark mane twisting every which way her supple and shapely legs somehow supporting her fluttering body She wears a mini-skirt one writer described as cut below her Tina talks and sings the language of right down to stage she is what many men would like their women to be ir the private amphitheater beautiful passionate and determinedly frank In her words she is bold soul Although she gets most of the attention Tina does not perform alone part of a team Her husband Ike who plays guitar and directs the show is nearby Together they have produced one of the most exciting acts in contemporary pop music Described as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue the show is mostly Tina and the Ikettes three ravishingly beautiful women singing and dancing to the blues soul and a veritable AND BURNING AT BOM ENDS FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE TV REPAIRS DUKE ARTISTS SERIES Presents Paul Badura-Skoda Pianist Friday December 4 1970 at 8:15 pm PAGE AUDITORIUM Res Tickets: $325 $275 $225 On Sale: Page Box Office (684-4059) Mail Orders Box KM Duke Station (Enclose a self-addrassed stamped envelope) super-black variety show Ike directs the nine-piece band writes songs scores music and handles the business chores After 10 years of struggle the Turners have reached a point where they can breathe easier In the beginning they played mostly black clubs and theaters on the chitterling circuit and they sold millions of records starting with In in 1960 But it has been only in the last two years that they have broken into the big money of worldwide concert tours and engagements at Las Vegas hotels and Miami Beach night clubs Ike is reported as saying their performing fee jumped from $1200 a night to $30000 a week in a time Their recent world tour with the Rolling Stones was enormously successful and put them in touch with the young international set to whom they are trying to appeal More than any other black pop group of their generation Ike and Tina are using the songs and musical devices of white rock artists They transformed the and the Rolling "Honky-Tonk into hard nuggets of erotica In both rhythmically powerful singing is enough to jangle the sensibilities of the most jaded souls Ike and latest album (Liberty LST-7650) is a superb example wf how they combine rock and roul elements Probably the most musically balanced record of their career and one of the best pop discs of the year contains two Beatle tunes and It and several songs in the soul genre Tina give It the romantic treatment most vocalists do Instead she adorns it with harsh inflections and makes it come alive with new feeling Probably more interesting however are the soul songs She does a definitive version of one of the most popular pieces high-powered in slow and fast portions and probably is the highlight of the album The fast portion is pure white heart Tina is the liberated woman on Of and Than A In the former she sings: like you can cheat on me I can cheat on you no rule that says the game of love be played by two In the latter Tina tells her man that sex everything she wants some peace and brotherly love Both are rhythmically dazzling not just platforms for messages and the screaming arrangements Color and Black Whit Antenna Installations Modern Test Equipment LOWE'S Hillsborough Rd Ph 3SS-1SI1 TV SERVICE DEPT Good Food Plus Good Cooks Plus A Nice Hostess With Pleasant Waitresses Produce An Enjoyable Meal Join the Ivy Room Club! 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