Battolion/Wednesdnv. Nov^mhAr o Aon*
IN 0NE
EAR
letters
I ’m a senior at a fairly respecta
ble college and I’ve been read
ing your magazine like a lung-
fish ever since the freshman
experience. It’s been like a deli
catessen to me. Have there been
tempestuous moments, over the
years? We require a tough haul,
sometimes, to buttress what
Kierkegaard may have meant when
he wrote, “Sermons come and go,
but occidental therapy is stuck in
reverse!”
Raglan Sleeves III
Gainesville, FL
I almost always enjoy the articles
you do on up-and-coming
bands. But some of the bands
playing in college towns are just as
interesting, if not more so, than the
ones who are signed to major
labels. I realize that these big-time
bands have publicists and money
to spend on advertising, but why
doesn’t Ampersand take a look at
some of the local bands across
America?
Jo Gallen
Austin, IX
I liked your fashion section —
hope you do more of them
but really — enough of the
Flashdance crap. That look is old
now, and by spring — when you
said it would be hot — it’ll be ice
cold—or at least it should be.
Carrie Stocks
Santa Cruz, CA
Y ou people must be gull ible
in more ways than one. First
you do a story on boring
bozos like a Flock of Seagulls, then
you give an entire page (plus a
continuation) to a guy we’ve never
seen or even heard of. Do you
really think this Pare is so great, or
does he just have a pushy press
agent? How many lunches did it
take to convince you to do this
story?
Norman Katzenbacb
Bloomington, IN
Lunches? You mean you can get
lunches for this? Why didn’t any
one tell us before?
Send your missives, epistles,
billets-doux and plain old let
ters to In One Ear, 1680 North
Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA
90028.
®UT
Mad Max III (in this country, Mad
Max II was titled The Road War
rior), and Mel Gibson will ride
again.
THE OTHER
Are All Sequels
Created Equal?
E ating Raoul, the surprise black
comedy hit of a few seasons
ago, now a fixture on the midnight
movie circuit, is due for a follow
up saga. Not to be called Digesting
Raoul, however. This one features
those huggable murder-perverts
Paul and Mary Bland as candidates
for the governor’s office in Sac
ramento, California. The title:
Bland Ambition. Mary Woronov
and Paul Bartel return in the title
roles, with Raoul co-writer Richard
Blackburn (an Ampersand contrib
utor, hey!) promoted to director.
P roducer Jack Haley (That’s En
tertainment I and II) is busy
cutting out and pasting together
the swanky Fred Astaire dance
numbers from MGM’s bygone mu
sicals, to be compiled into a film
called That’s Dancing.
P roducers Ilya and Alexander
Salkind insist there will be a
Superman 4 — with or without
Chrisopher Reeve ... Australian di
rector George Miller is planning
Life Imitates Art,
Art Gets Miffed
R epo Man, starring that veteran
of low-life roles, Harry Dean
Stanton, is a low-budget movie
about low-budget people. Shot in
ventively by first-time director Alex
Cox, it’s the tale of a gang of pro
fessional car repossessors on the
trail of an old Chevy with a mad
nuclear scientist at the wheel and a
valuable mystery cargo in the
trunk. When the director and some
of his crew went out for dinner,
they took the beat up Chevrolet
and parked it on the street in Santa
Monica. Imagine their collective
surprise when they returned to
find the heap stolen.
Sue Me, Sue You Blues
N orthern Songs holds copy
rights to many of the old
Beatles songs. You know, the ones
that say “All you need is love” and
“Money can’t buy me love” and
things like that. Northern Songs is
suing Sesame Street because its re
cent educational album for chil
dren, Bom to Add, contains two
parodies of Beatles songs. Copy
right infringement, say mouth
pieces for Northern Songs, accord
ing to a report in Billboard. The
tracks in question are “Letter B” (to
the tune of “Let It Be”) and “Hey
Food” (to the tune of “Hey Jude”).
Northern Songs is suing to the tune
of $1 million, along with demands
that the LP be taken off the market.
Presumably, all the six-year-olds
now hearing “Hey Food” would
otherwise have gone out to buy a
million bucks worth of Beatle re
cords. Other artists parodied on
the record include Bruce
Springsteen (the title cut) and the
Rolling Stones (“I Can’t Get No
Co-Operation”).
o
.K., One More Chorus: Last
time we tuned in on Frank
contd on page
Thanks to our new production
schedule, this issue was laid
to rest before the October
issue was even distributed,
which allowed you very little
time to submit jokes. And the
old jokes were just too awful.
A M
R
N
D
November 83, page 4
Publisher
Pulitnr inChief
Music Editor
Contributing Editors
Art Directors
Design Consultant
Production
Circulation Manager
Office Manager
Asst, to Publisher
Durand W. Achee
Judith Sims
Byron I^aursen
Jacob a Atlas, Bill Braunstein
Eric Estrin, Richard Levinson,
Steven X. Rea, Davin Seay
Chip Jones, Dan Eicholtz
Catherine Lampton
Art & Design
Roxanne Padilla
Barbara Harris
Lynne Barstow
Advertising Offices West Coast
President, Sales & Mktg. JEFF DlCKEY
West Coast Sales Mgr. JENNIFER OWENS
Sales Coordinator NORMA CORTES
1680 N. Vine, Suite 900
Hollywood, CA 90028
(213)462-7175
East Coast
Sales Manager JACKLYN M. PETCHENIK
Account Executives SARAH GALVIN, ADRIENNE SCOTT
Marketing Consultant LARRY SMUCKLER
134 Lexington Ave.
Third Floor
NYC, NY 10016
(212)696-0994
©198} Alan Weston Publishing, a division of Alan Weston Communications, Inc., corpo
rate offices —1680 North Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 90028, Richard J. Kreuz, Presi
dent. All rights reserved. Letters become the property of the publisher and may be
edited. Publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts. Published sue
times during the year. Annual subscription rate is $6.00. To order subscriptions or notify
change of address, write Ampersand, 1680 North Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 90028.
features
RJE.M. • 7
Atlanta-based rock mutterings ...
Mary Steenburgen • 8
She’s just too wonderful...
Dennis Quaid • 10
Its character roles for this leading man ...
Never Cry Wolf • 13
Myths exploded in the forest primeval...
Special Lifestyle feature • 14
Portable Computers
So, despair not; with any
luck, we’ll have some hilari
ous tidbits in this section next
issue, fust to make sure of
that, you (yes you) should
write down something funny
and send it to us. You could
earn $20. Then again ...
Send the levity to Amper
sand fokes, 1680 North Vine,
Suite 900, Hollywood, CA
90028. We’re ready to giggle.
a
m
n
In One Ear • 4
Letters
& Out the Other • 4
News, rumor & innuendo
Our Cover
Handsome Dennis Quaid was snapped by
Hollywood photographer Greg Gorman,
famous for his celebrity sessions.
i v\m\