Posted
5:11 PM
by Gene
It wasn't too long ago when the pioneering rock groupie John "Rock Around the Clock" Rockwell knocked Rosemary Clooney as squarer than Perry Como. Long transformed into a highbrow (that's why Howell demoted him) he now says he's seen
a contemporary opera "masterpiece." That means two-note melodies, the same chord a thousand times, and unremitting navel staring.