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Reading about celebrities in these old tabloids is a bit like reliving their fame in real time, and in this Whisper published this month in 1957 we get to observe Marilyn Monroe in mid-career. You know that stage. It’s the one where she’s no longer a sparkling new star, but hasn’t yet earned the status of a venerable old treasure. It’s the stage where almost overnight the very editors who were partners in constructing the edifice of fame begin to take it apart brick and girder, with sledgehammers and blowtorches. In this issue Whisper editors throw Monroe into their monthly crucible “The Pit,” an unenviable place you may remember from our post on Liberace a while back.
So what had Monroe done? Whisper dishes dirt from Sukarno to Lollobrigida. Royal Musings: Washington's Imperial Wedding: Archduke Imre and Kathleen Walker. Just a reminder.
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Of course, with repeated airings on cable and midnight shows (at one of which friend John got to actually dance with Robin Lively!) It’s become the cult classic that we know and love. I recently revisited the innocuous favorite which is more than perfect for Sunday afternoon viewing and found it just as silly, strange, and dumbly enjoyable as I remembered. From the opening shots of Louise Miller gyrating to Taylor Dane style pop with the local hottie, Brad to the final scenes of Louise Miller gyrating to Taylor Dane style pop with the local hottie, Brad, the movie is an 80′s Disney Channel esque delight. Tim Hussin. Pie. R.J.
Cutler's film, "The September Issue" premiered tonight at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. In years past I leave the press line smelling like all the other photographers, for two reasons. 1.We are all hussling for photos and sweating. 2. Being packed together like sardines, we end up sweating on one another. As disgusting as this may be, I never thought I would get nostalgic due to it's absence. Walking back from the theater tonight I felt a little shortchanged. STRICTLY PRIVATE. Beyond The Queen and Driving on the Left. "Tweedland" The Gentlemen's club. TV-INTROS. True/False Film Fest. Cult group started a home unlike all others. Meet The New Aquarians. In 2007, when independent publisher Jodi Wille published a book about a 1970s mystical tribe from L.A. called the Source Family, she had no idea the profound ripple effect it would have on a certain swathe of the tripped-out contemporary art underground.
Illustrated with photos of the long-haired, dreamy-looking family members, the book triggered a chain reaction in a specific substrata of neo-hippie musicians, designers, writers, graffiti artists, restaurateurs, alternative livers and spiritual seekers, some of them famous (Billy Corgan, Devendra Banhart, MEAR ONE), all of them free spirits, the kind who might themselves have joined the Source Family had they been born 30 years earlier. Father Yod | Courtesy of Isis Aquarian. The Source Restaurant | Courtesy of Isis Aquarian. The Source Restaurant Sign | Courtesy of Isis Aquarian. One of the early Source Family adopters was musician Guy Blakeslee, frontman of LA rock band, The Entrance Band. Ya Ho Wa 13 interview. Father / Yahowha and Pythias, Djin, Octavius, Sunflower...
Yahowha 13 band at the Source Family House in L.A. (early 1970's)photo courtesy of Source Archives-Isis In 1988, I bought a new book called After the Acid Trip - The Ultimate Psychedelic Music Guide by Vernon Joynson. In it a music group called Ya Ho Wa 13 is described as such: "this band of Hollywood misfits reputedly made at least 9 albums for Higher Key during the '70's. " They are referred to as "musically very weird… largely mellow, mystical and probably drug induced. " In addition, there are pictures of two album covers - one has five men wearing only loincloths, all with bows and arrows crouching around and on top of a Rolls Royce. The Source Family Rises Again. When “it seemed like a good idea at the time” hooks up with “join us”-type faith, the world ends up with another juicy bite of quasi-religious cult history.
If we’re lucky, it takes us to the freakiest outskirts of radical utopian adventure and glittery illumination, stopping short of tragedy and ruin—drinking Kool-Aid or wearing Nikes to your deathbed are kind of a bummer. Once you believe you’re “specially chosen” for a certain task or destiny, you’re kind of in the danger zone, but the Source Family, a Los Angeles-based community in the late 1960s and early 70s managed to steer clear of the seriously dark stuff. Centered around self-styled Western guru Father Yod, the Source Family gave us outrageously spaced-out drama, redeeming itself time and time again once it got way too nuts and even a little bit gross. The Source - The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family. I've been a fan of the Source family story for many years, since discovering their 13-CD box set God and Hair on Captain Trip Records.
But I never really knew all that much about the group or their spiritual father, Yahowha also known as Father Yod, Jim Baker and many other names. When I discovered that Isis Aquarian had finally written and compiled a full-length book chronicling the LA communes' story, my interest was piqued. For those unfamiliar with the group, let me start with a brief recap. Jim Baker was originally a decorated marine and Judo champion who left his first left behind to head for LA and a tryout for the movie role of Tarzan.
From Capitol Hill to a cult. Secret Style Icon: The Source Family. “Why seek any further without for that which lies within?”
–Father Yod Even though Father Yod looked like a hippie Santa Claus and his religion was a confusing stew of New Age-y ideas (with lots of talk of “pyramid mirrors,” “sacred shins,” and “moon chakras,” maaan), he eventually amassed more than a hundred followers and lived in “The Father House,” a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, with most of them (rumors flew that the house was bought with bank robbery money, but the rumor-mongers didn’t take into account Yod’s fortune, which he amassed by starting a series of organic restaurants in Southern California).
They called themselves the Source Family. The Family was a common sight along L.A.’s Sunset Strip in the early ’70s. Groups of strangely serene young men and women would wander up and down Sunset Boulevard in long gauzy gowns and velvet robes, street-preaching and recruiting new members to their self-proclaimed “Aquarian tribe.” Messy Nessy Chic The Rock & Roll Cult of Sunset Boulevard. The only Hollywood-based cult of the 60s and 70s that comes to mind is the Manson Family, so when I happened upon this photograph of a secretive but wild group of beautiful young people who strolled around LA in the 1970s wearing colorful gowns, devoted to a Hollywood restauranteur-turned-spiritual leader who had 13 wives, a Rolls Royce and a rock’n'roll band, calling himself “Father Yod”– I was skeptical.
Creepy hippie cult? I had to know more… Fortunately, the story of The Source Family didn’t end in a murderous rampage in the Hollywood Hills. And even though they had some pretty spaced-out rituals, practiced a lot of tantric sex and their leader, “Father Yod” was basically a weird older dude snuffing out his sexual ego, the Source family, also known to themselves as an ”Aquarian tribe”, managed to stay away from the really dark stuff. The Source Family. Meet the Source Family. Peter Daou. Tensions In Israeli Feminism: The Mizrahi-Ashkenazi Rift. Introduction The Israeli women’s movement since its beginning in the mid 1970s has been dominated overwhelmingly by Ashkenazi women, that is women of European origin.
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