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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1977 Beatles album fails to recapture era In By RUSTY CAWLEY .The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl ^Capitol Records, $5.98 £ It’s hard to believe it has been •♦twelve years since Beatlemania -crossed the Atlantic and stormed »the country. Twelve years since 2John, Paul, George and Ringo be came the most salable items on the market, since rivaled only by the Bicentennial. In late 1964, you could buy Bea- tle wigs, Beatle ash trays, Beatle bobbing dolls, Beatle T-shirts, Bea tle buttons, Beatle pennants, Bea tle pajamas, Beatle pillows, Beatle underwear . . . Beatle anything. Everyone waited for the bubble to burst and for the Fab Four to disap pear down the tube along with the tons of junk that had been fashioned in their names. But the bubble never has burst, although it has deflated. Witness the latest in what prom ises to be a series of Beatle rip-ofl albums, “The Beatles at the Hol lywood Bowl. It will probably do very well, as did its predecessor, “Rock and Roll Music. ” Both are part of a Capitol Records plot to aid its sagging re- Summer School Students Lou has a complete supply of used books for your summer classes Lou also has a complete stock of calculator supplies — Your Complete Bookstore — Loupot's Bookstore Northgate— Across from the Post Office cord sales by resurrecting the Beatle legend. 1 he teenag ers Q f that period will probably pick the disc up in an in stant, hoping to recapture a portion of their past. The kids who discov ered the Beatles through “Rock and Roll Music anc l the re-released single Got Xo Get You Into My Life will buy it ou t of curiosity. But I have (Ti e same objection to this new album as I had to the last Music Review one: it treats the Beatles as nothing more than nostalgia. Not only is this absurd, but unjust. The Beatl es did more for rock music in the s ix years they were in the public spotlight than all of the thousands of bands since then put together. Nostalgia i s for Jay and the Americans, tbe Electric Rooster, Chubby Checker, the Dave Clark Five and the like. The Beatles influ ence is as alive today as it was in 1964. 1 his is not to say “The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl” is not in teresting. It i S) after all, a bit of the excitement that was Beatlemania pressed into vinyl and captured for posterity. The album consists of 13 songs from their concerts at the Hol lywood Bowl in 1964 and 1965. There are the standard Beatle classics: “Ticket to Ride,” “Help!”, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “She Loves You.” There are also their versions of rock and roll hits of the ’50’s: Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven, ” Lit tle Richard’s,” “Long Tall Sally” iand, of course, “Twist and Shout. ” And there are samples of the Bea- tle’s ad-lib stage humor. None are as funny as when John Lennon told a Royal Command Performance audi ence, including Queen Elizabeth, “You in the cheap seats clap. The rest of you just rattle your jewelry.” But the comments on this album are probably more representative of a typical performance. Then there are the thousands of healthy, young female lungs whose voices make the album sound as if it were recorded at Kennedy Interna tional Airport. But it’s really nothing more than history. And like all history, it is impossible to recapture the feeling of moment. You can’t know how it f e | stand at ground zero when atomic bomb was dropp e( j Hiroshima by watching fi] ms T event. The same is true here. We know how the script < How the Beatles gradually » r j apart until the final split j n how they began their own caret, and stagnated; how we learned|j the Beatles as a whole were mJ greater than the sum of their f George Martin, the Beatlesi ducer during the 1960’s, likestoij about the time his nine-yeau daughter asked him about the 8 ties. “You used to record them, t you Daddy? Were they as i the Bay City Rollers?” “Probably not,” Martin told But in his mind he was sa Some day she will find out.” Some day the teenyboopersofJ day, with their K.C. and the sj shine Bands and their Barry o ilows, with their Boogie Menu their Disco Ducks, will comei realize just how important they ties were. Texa rersit; tBC-T yegion: writer Southv nil be Thei Saturd: tonda; Saturdr Unfortunately it won’t bethronj albums like this one. Saturda Andrews spends time in real estate, acting United p,- ess International HOLLYWOOD — Dana An drews, 67, could be collecting Social Security Payments, but the longtime star is too busy earning millions in real estate and acting to bother with it. Andrews spends six months a year starring j n plays. He manages CHEClCJRES wow 'HAA ofcs i-CflsseHesKlouii OFF OM FILL BOMOS flUD UmTEKPIPES! I PflKflDKTJJMJfl SHIRTS- Bin UK. TAPES fPXLSSoieiES BUDGET TAPES ^RECORDS 515 UHnl. DR. Hf MOKflRJBTE pHoklE - SM-fc-S&IS OPEN lOTo 6, MOH-SBT to squeeze in at least one movie and an occasional television show in be tween business deals. A good old Mississippi boy and son of a Baptist preacher, Andrews has enjoyed a curious career. Al though he’s never won an Academy Award, the square-jawec) star has appeared in three of Hollywood’s most memorable classic: “The Oxbow Incident, “Laura” and “Best Years of Our Lives. ” While he hasn’t gathered all the accolades of say, Jimmy Stewart, during his string of 70 movies over three decades, Andrews will he honored this month as “Mississip- pian of the Year” at special cere monies in Biloxi, Miss. Andrews is a uniquely candid man who doesn’t mind discussing subjects traditionally taboo among actors. He is an alcoholic who sur vived some notable bouts with the grape and now is a member of the National Council on Alcoholism. He is that rare actor who speaks openly about personal finances. “This is hard to believe,” he said, “but I earn more money working in plays on the road than I did when I was a movie star. “I just signed a contract for $2,750 a week for six weeks to do a play back east, ” he said. “The best I did at Goldwyn during my 10 years under contract was $2,500 a week. “Actually, the Goldwyn contract was pretty good. They paid me for 40 weeks a year whether I worked or not.” Andrews had a unique setup dur ing the height of his popularity. He was under 10-year contract to Goldwyn and 20th Century Fox si multaneously. But acting salaries are a pittance compared to his business holdings. Among other properties, Andrews owns hotels, apartment houses, raw land and avocado groves. “When I first started in pictures in 1938 they paid me $150 a week, ” Andrews said, laughing. “That was good money in those days consider ing Vic Mature started out at $125 and Robert Preston began at $100. “It never occurred to me that someday I’d do better in real estate. In 1969 I bought a hotel in Reno for $300,000 and now it’s worth $3 mil lion. “In the past three years I earned a million dollars on an apartment house project without putting up a penny. “Profitable as it is, though, busi ness isn’t connected with life — only the necessities of life. Actind directly connected with the excitement of life, the idenl creativity, approbation an course, the money too.” Andrews has little trouble tug his careers. He stars W p/ays a year, spending two weefc rehearsals for each six-week More often than not his wife, Mi Todd — to whom he’s been for 38 years — costars with hit The plays run the gamut “Any Wednesday” and “Mi Go-Round” to “ Angel Street,’"' 1 fight, ” “Coming Back Little Si and “Two For the Seesaw,” 1 call my agent regularly make engagements months ahe; time,” Audrevns said, “lem $90,000 a year acting in p/ays, easy work with Mary who is my friend and lover. “No matter where I’m world: manage to take care of real and business matters by telepk “I do one movie a year jusl keep my hand in. Two years was ’Airport 1975.’ In 1976 it ’The Last Tycoon’ and this year “Good Guys Wear Black.’ “There isn’t much money in vision and I don’t like the way make deals. Unless you’re the in a series the going rate for act: only $1,000 a day. “But there’s a catch to it. li have to make yourself available week. That sounds like at $5,000. But they squeeze all work into one day and then use, name to beef up the billing maybe a three-line part. “That’s not ethical and I don’t to waste my time like that.” Andrews, who was an account before becoming an actor veloped his real estate shrewd attending night classes at UCLA years ago. He is a shrewd nessman with a genuine knowl of contracts, loans and interest. He finds his celebrity more drance than help in busiw dealings. ‘‘My fame in show busiw doesn’t help at all,” he said. Tj instance, the Chase Manhatl Bank is less inclined to lend money as an actor than it would were just another businessman “As a matter of fact, as an I’m something of a target risk. But it never occurs to me to. up acting and stick strictly toll ness. 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