Movies
June, 1979
Let me admit to being dead wrong in my expectations about Hair, for I stood with the skeptics who saw no way to make a 1979 movie musical from the definitive but outdated theatrical phenomenon that virtually begat the spirit of the late Sixties. The flower people and the antiwar protests are still part of it: Hair still opens with the burning of draft cards. And it is dated, in a sense, though transformed into a sad and funny and timeless fable about the way we were, or seemed to be, only a brie...
