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ENTERTAINMENT
INo more Winterland!
By May Wont
It's fane.
The building itol his tern Jack
Dempwy. the Fee Follies, the Roll-
Inj Stows, and the Grateful Dead
perforai within its walls hai finally
been knocked down.
After sitting bt doobtioa for seven
years. WtnterUnd was demolished in
the fill of 1985 following ihc approval
of the Clannhg Ccmmiuion
in April. A fbur-story, 347 unit condominium
project with commealal
businesses at ihc street level is now
Hiog competed In its place.
Tbc 5 'OO-seat arena had been
empty kince San Francisco rock pro
toout Bill Graham put on his last
ihow there, featuring the New Riders
of the Purple Safe, the Blues Bnxnera
(fcbn Bcfa&hJ and Dan A> xn yd), and
the Grateftil Dead on New Year's
Eve of 197*.
A! thai tsne. United Anbts Theater
drvuit owned the property. Tnc
company had no plans for the site it
*- Philip Maher, general partner of
Consolidated Capital Corporation.
pwichaxd the property ir 1980 and
the proposal to hc4td a 394-umf condomlnhmi
piujcci was approved in
1981. Development ceaicd. however,
whrn there was a lack of financing.
Until Paul Rote, who heads the
Klinjbell Co.. hid taken over
Mahcr's project in December. 1984.
the auditorium had remained lilcni.
PcffoimEis men as Led Zeppelin.
Pink Floyd, Donovan. Chuck Berry.
Jaoif Joplin. JiraJ Hcndrix. SaKana.
the Band. Ringo Surr. the Rolling
Stones. Jefferson Airplane, the
Temptations, and the Grateful Dead
rocked the hall and had drawn
thousands of you£i to the arena in
the 60's and 70'*.
Residents nf the Western Addition
complained that the neighborhood
turned into a public lavatory and
dumping ground for bmken bottle*
and other garbage »hen youth*
camped out waiting to grt into
concerts
Crine in the area increased more
than 300 percent when there wx, a
concert. Before, during, or after concerts,
ttou broke out. and the use of
illicit drugs could be seen
.^erywhere.
According to the San Francisco Examiner,
at a concert of tnc Dead at
Wintcrland in 1971, about 1.000
youths "got stoned when somcon*
spiled caMrons of water with LSD."
Two females and thrre males in the
audience appealed nuJe.
Graham, who r/n the mccca for
counUess thousandi of rock fans since
1966. explained that he decided to
leave Winiciland because it was gelling
loo expensive to maintain the
badly dilapidated building and
brcauMofcoolinuhgprcssutefrom
Fillmore Distric; neighbors to ban
musical cvras from the hall, and
because the hall was juvt not used
often enough.
Wjntcrland was born in the late
1920's as "Dismiand Auditorium."
Andrew F. Mahoney ano Itadore
Zcllcrback created Dreamland and
dedicated it as the "Temple of Hippiness."
Spom cvenu, lectures, symphonies,
horse shows, and even opera
look place in the auditorium. Joe
Louis and Jack Dcmptey fought
there.
In 1939. Dreamland brcimc
Wintcrtand for the inaugural of the
Ice Follies. All through the 40's and
3uV it was the scene of the boxing
mashes and other sporting events as
well. When the younger generation
took over in the 60**, the auditorium
was undoubtedly ttiH a "temple of
happiness."
Networks short on_creativity
By David Hun!
It* ihc interminable endeavor to
rcla\ one's reitlev. plight, television
ii the paragon oV passive entertainmen:
thai provides recycled script*
and plots that are condescending to
the \ iewer and demeaning to the producers
arc] writers responsible for
them.
A paramount example of a director's
lack of creativity and grred for
irautf money is Dynasty /.'; 7>.y the most
violent sho* on primciime. It had
mote e»r crashes, dead people, and
terrorisu armed with machine guns
than any other show, until The •
Tear* came along.
Can you believe a double rip J i?
Wrilc Miami Vkr is popular, it t*wcs
a lot to Riptide. Miami Vice has the
bout, ihc car. and thr macho acton,
but Riptide had them flm. Relax.
Dei Johnson, the real rip-off is The
Uaiden. Black and white detectives
who supposedly dress well. Sounds
familiar.
Now you m watch re-runs \J
treat on ABC, but under a new
fame, Spenier: For Htrr. Robert
Urkh chongtu his came and leeame
a few years older, but it might« well
be IVjtos.
Even the best shows are guilty. St.
Ebmhrn- ts guilty of ucaltng the plot
from TtjfperJnhn. MM. and a film
h fnwn Hill Strrrt Blues. On
Hill Street, when two characters an
talking they are usually surrounded
by quite a few pawnby. Instead of
changing scenes the camera focuses
in on the passerby and resunvu the
show. Ijook for it on St. EUtvherr.
TI«e Cosby Show isn't called The
Coiby Show because it illustrates an
upper rrdJlc class family. It's called
7V CtubyShowbcaox il has Bill
Morgan, help* nut occasionally.
htoanlirhting. which feature* the
acting phenomenon of Brace Willis
and the charm of Cybill Shepherd.
draws the virwen ancniion In a
peculiar way. First csubUinal In
Rttmngton Suele. the two dctectivca
battle over >ubjccts such i%
chauvinism and who b the better
Jrtcctive. while all along one gets the
Ifte Insiders—black and white detectives
who supposedly dress well.
Sounds familiar."
Cosby; the iminunal Bill Cotby. Too
bad CBS didn't know this when they
made Charlie Jnd Co.'i i pay the price of taking
thoruiiu «MI creativity w^e7l their
%buw> ate MHia cantxlted.
Movie version of 'Clue' game fails to measure up
e v.t*i ever f^Hicexl
b**v>. w>uh
J very ft* L"*C?ptHtns.
mttvies 1hji
have in u*e gin
K'll
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an? uvt ill) »« worthyiwr
lime tiir
mmc) ?
Ctnr i\ no c\ccpt»m. The nuken.
Ml" C7'.r appunmtly Jidn'l rcali/c ib».
Quite tk*c. in l.ct. They quite
rightfully f.it ihc:r :ncncvuul lisle attempt
at a nkrtic M> unable in nukr
it in the hrghlt i^Nnnclimc. "do nr
die" *tNkl of n JJ>\ film*, ihsi they
fell ihc>' hjJ in uv: two l
iW U
FirM. tn an utterly aMninc rmt\t*.
Mync«mc decided ttt nukr 4 mmc twi
the popular pjtkcr [lmthcr\ htvirdgumc.
Clue. Cmrect me it l*m
wronp. but tnurdcjmi.*\ tiun't
generally i.uVc proat m»\ie\.,-i\l *\
nravie\ ikwi fcucrjllv nuLc prcjt
btxtrdeomcx. Thcy'\r :ricd. »hc>\c
failed, and proKdrly alwj)» *ill.
OCMOCS. the trxnic tt«lf doevTl even
have much to do *tlh the game it t»
supposedly bawd upon. The only
>imil/tttie* one readdy noc^o sic the
character's names am! the muroW
weapons.
The second gimmick K granted,
much more original (quite original in
fact), but none the less, jbsutd. What
they did (and I'm sure they fell quite
ingenious) was to make three dif*
fcrem endings aau send the movies.
each ntactly the same, save for the
inane coaduskn. tc various thcatcn
In a gtv.*n area.
It's a pretty neat idea, but that's
about as far as it goes- prcttyncaf.
Thb nught have rctually worked had
they decided to keep this pretty neat
little Idea of theirs a seem and let
people find out about it for
.. thenudvex but ao. not Hollywood.
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- 'rc^et—oocthat won't shut uprtuil
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A rourocrw b among tbow gatbeml Ux an elegant dinner parly In Ihc
comle whodunit, One.
easily be paralleled k> any of inday'
lc»cr viicomv. In fact, ujiching ih
mm ic. one can't help but wiKhlcr exactly
»i» one t\ uttinc thirwj h a tf the bi/arre. n*>n>nt,-.
but rurmlcvt Jim inmi Tu\i.
Martin Mull (Colonel Muuard) i\
J very lunny comic nn tm tmn and.
)cv. he. Uxt. wo* in a «itcom. thr* one
Mthcr forrctful and rightfully *hon-
lived. MJV perltunuwe M- * hull-
IICJIUIJ and tru-iicJ tn '.he numcriKiv
•iher jitntN and :ulic*'-fx. Ht en
I(»u4rd Ik-xutunfDf. J..hnny K-vcr
fioni H'KHP HI Cnniiinuht nukes J
%hi>n and cither nicanin^leNs
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hjuJci.ce punV ;r fn>ti\ l.u Mtiflc tundcill- inutmp
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Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scailen)
seems to bold her own fairly well ax
Ihe coquettish cicart service
manager. She stands out amidvt her
fellow acton and actresses as tliey
scurry about, trying detpcratcly to get
In the limelight and steal the scenes.
The one person who does manage
to grab the limelight and distinguish
himself from the tctt of the overly
anxious crowd is Ton Curry (the
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butlvrl who iv hc\i rcnvmberAl fi«"
hif tmnsvestite role in The ftociy
Horror Picture Shaw. No manet how
insane and dnhevclcd things become,
he Always seemi to have things under
comrol — the way only brjluh
butlers know how. It is obvious that
he is having fun. and although the
movie is ridiculously bac\ we have
fun along with him.
Like a sitcom. Clue is dumb bul
fun. What saves it from being a total
bomb is that it doesn't uie itself too
tcnoiuly. Ii bugh* at itself and
become nf that we don't quite mind
the entourage of lame elknes we are
forced to put up with. Still, one would
espect something quite a lot better
from John Lamia (executive produi.er'cii-H;ni'4*r
•. n t»h