Books
A Memoir
Larry McMurtry
Simon
& Schuster: 260 pp., $24
“THE
OLDER the violin, the sweeter the music,” Gus McCrae remarks in “Lonesome Dove,” Larry McMurtry’s magisterial western about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and the havoc wreaked in its path.
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“I practiced saying ‘groovy’ a lot without it sounding silly – at
the time it didn’t have the weight of cheesiness it has now,” laughed
Nick Roth, the 22-year-old star of the new feature “Berkeley,” about
an 18-year-old caught up in the countercultural maelstrom of sex,
drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in 1968.
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SAN FRANCISCO – In many ways it was a typical night at the Castro
Theatre, the venerable 85-year-old revival house in the heart of San
Francisco’s gay and lesbian district.
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IT’S a not entirely unfamiliar story.
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