Book reviews from The Filmgoer's Companion and more
Leslie Halliwell's fourth edition receives praise as the top film reference, with hundreds of credits and photos, though some judgments may anger readers. Raquel Welch is labeled an American sex symbol. paperback due later. Also reviewed are Fehrenbach's Comanches, De Vries's The Glory of the Humming Bird, Hallahan's The Search for Joseph Tully, and other titles with brief evaluations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Halliwell
Hill and Wang
al Pacino
Joe Namath
Halliwell
Raquel Welch
Raquel Tejada
David Dugas
UPI
Joseph Tully
William H. Hallahan
Bobbs-Merrill
Brooklyn
Best Sellers in Fiction and Nonfiction
Joan Hanauer reviews several new books, praising The Virtues of Hell as well plotted with a strong lead, noting Trelawny by Isabelle Holland as a gothic tale with a haunting past, and praising memorabilia guide by Jerry Patterson along with Barbara Michaels secret haunting House of Many Shadows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hell
Pierre Boulle
Vanguard
Boulle
Kwai
Trelawny
Isabelle Holland
Weybright & Talley
Maine
Barbara Michaels
Dodd, Mead
Joan Hanauer
UPI
Carole Shelley Keeps Private Life Offstage
Actress Carole Shelley says her private life remains off limits while her professional work in Absurd Person Singular continues in New York. Born in England, she moved to the United States in 1964 for The Odd Couple and embraced broader opportunities, balancing theater with personal joys in Manhattan. She emphasizes audience access to her professional self while preserving privacy at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe O’sullivan
New York
UPI
Carole Shelley
Miss Shelley
Manhattan
America
Geraldine Page
Sandy Dennis
Richard Kiley
Larry Blyden
Tony Roberts
United States
Gwendolyn Pigeon
Neil Simon
U.S
England
Atlantic
Shelley
Repertory Theater
Canada
Europe
Leo
Shelly
Comedian Conway Always in a crowd at home
Hollywood UPI Tim Conway of The Carol Burnett Show lives in a five bedroom San Fernando Valley home nicknamed The Barracks with wife Mary Anne and six children aged five to twelve. The Conway brood includes five sons Timothy Patrick Seann Corey Jamie and daughter Kelly. Their Irish ties and full house extend to a housekeeper a dog named Henry and a stray cat resident for a year. Tim’s parents split time between Chagrin Falls Ohio and the chilly months elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
UPI
Tim Conway
Mary Anne
San Fernando Valley
Conways
Timothy
Patrick
Seann
Corey
Jamie
Kelly
Conway
Henry
Chagrin Falls
Ohio
Tim
California
Conway Yard
Julia Childs
Papa Conway
Rams
Detroit Lions
Redskins
Rock Year 1974 Acknowledges Stars and Storms
A sprawling feature catalogs top and flop albums of 1974 with bands such as Bad Company Genesis Kiss and Bachman Turner Overdrive. It also sketches Rock writers lists and notes the Conway family dynamics blending music talk with a vivid home life and a civic earthquake drill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bad Company
England
Genesis
Kiss
Mick Taylor
Rolling Stones
Mick Ronson
Mott the Hoople
Electric Light Orchestra
Randy Newman
Elton John
Bachman- Turner
Moody Blues
Alice Cooper
Joni Mitchell
Court
Spark
Bad Co
Joe Cocker
Heartsfield
Uriah Heep
Wonderworld
Sensation Alex Harvey
the Impossible Dream
Leon Russell
Mandred Mann
Earth Band
Graham Central Station
Bruce Springsteen
Little Feat
Kansas
PFM
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
The
Skymanters
Hamid Hamilton Camp
New attitudes in USSR travel
Moscow observed changes in hotel service and tourism as Intourist shifts away from dezhurnaya desk clerks to Western style self service. Authorities plan 40 new hotels before 1980 to host Olympic visitors and upgrade souvenir shops with self checkout. Toursists praise faster service and easier purchases at Ukraine Hotel and other outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Intourist
Moscow
Lenim
Intourist Hotel
Inter-Continental Hotel Corp
Leningrad
Kiev
Ukraine
Year of the Big Tour Defines 1974 Pop Scene
Bruce Meyer notes 1974 in United Press International as the Year of the Big Tour. Bob Dylan and The Band George Harrison Crosby Stills Nash and Young revived veteran acts to vast venues, yet the era showed rock's directionless drift amid broad popularity and major tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Meyer
United Press International
Bob Dylan
George Harrison
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
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T.R. Fehrenbach
Knopf
U.S. Army
Texas Rangers
Peter de Vries
Little, Brown
de Vries
Sammy Glick
Wabash
Ind
Publishers’ Weekly
Fiction
James A. Michener
Joseph Heller
John H. Watson
M.D
Harold Robbins
John Fowles
Tinker
John leCarre
Morris West
Frederick Forsyth
Thomas Tryon
Peter Benchley
James Herriot
Carlos A. Castaneda
Edwin Newman
Charles Berlitz
J. Manson
Valentine
Cornelius Ryan
Dan Rather
Gary Paul Gates
Harry Loraynen
Jerry Lucas
Ralph G. Martin
Noel Mostert
Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward
Jerry E. Patterson
Crown
Spring ST
Williamstown
Sun
Jeremiah
Johnson
By Vernon Scott
Bachman-Turner
Shawn Phillips
Souther-Millman- Furay
SHF
Bob Dyland
Manfred Mann
Good Earth
Bonnie _ Raitt
Good Old Boys
Doug Sahm
Groovers Paradise
David Werner
Whiz Kid
Providence
R.I
Rhode Island
Commerce Clearing House, Inc
Rhode Islanders
Ussr
By Gordon F. Joseloff
Dezhurnaya
Russia
Monument Plaza
Bennington, Vt
Hunt ST. Bennington
NEW Harte Theatre
Billy Jack
Delores Tavle
Tom Laughlin
Ray NO Passes
Warner Bros
Warner Communications Company
Sat
Restalgréo
Morgana
John Cazale de Meera
Cinema
Matinee
Minera Books
Bennington
Vermont
Las
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