The HAMPTON Report

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New works examine the history of New York during World War II, the real-life events behind the movie “On the Waterfront” and the city’s future as an “authentic urban place.”.

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Ever the “fierce independent” and “iconoclast” — two phrases showered on honoree Neil Young at the music industry’s annual Grammy charity bash on Friday — the grizzled rocker failed to perform for the black-tie crowd who had turned out to salute him. 

Organizers said it was only the third time in the 20-year history of the MusiCares dinner that an honoree had not sung, after Billy Joel in 2002 and Luciano Pavarotti in 1998. Young’s publicist did not return a call seeking comment. Young was never billed as a performer, but disappointed guests assumed the tireless road warrior might dust off a few ditties.

The MusiCares event raises funds for musicians with medical and financial problems. It takes place two days before the Grammys, so an A-list crowd is always in attendance. Young, accompanied by his wife Pegi, was honored for his annual all-star concerts in Northern California for the Bridge School, an institution that helps disabled children.

Plenty of big stars took to the stage at the cavernous Los Angeles Convention Center to hail the Canadian rocker, most of them turning in earnest versions of folkie songs such as “Down by the River” (John Mellencamp, pictured in the middle, at left), “Tell Me Why” (Norah Jones) and “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” (Jackson Browne), and “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” (Lady Antebellum). Josh Groban inadvertently set off an exodus to the bathrooms with his performance of the ballad “Harvest Moon,” but Wilco enlivened proceedings with an epic “Broken Arrow.” 

They steered clear of Young’s challenging ’80s material, nothing from the experimental fare of his vocoder-fueled 1981 opus “Trans” or from his 1985 country outing “Old Ways.” An examination of his political fare was limited to “Ohio” by Ben Harper. No one dared touch his recent protest song “Let’s Impeach the President.” Dave Matthews ventured to the dark side with the junkie ballad “The Needle and the Damage Done,” an ideal tune for the event. 

Comments from the stage were few and far between. Elton John — who did “Helpless” with Sheryl Crow, said Young was his “hero … He came up and played his new album for me in 1971, in London, in my apartment, and the neighbors complained at three o’clock in the morning.”

Young’s old bandmate, David Crosby, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, added: “We made some of the best music of our lives with you, man.” CS&N covered “Human Highway,” and Stills teamed with Crow for “Long May You Run.” (Nash and Stills are pictured at left)

Young did get up from his table at the end to thank everyone, and to reveal that he was four or five songs into a new album.  “I won’t stop and I hope to be able to continue for a really long time,” he said.

Roy Orbison has spent the last 21 years in the company of Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood and Carl Wilson at a small cemetery in the Los Angeles suburb of Westwood.  But most visitors probably walk over his grave without realizing their proximity to the man behind “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Only the Lonely.”

Orbison’s family still has not got around to erecting a headstone, and it does not seem anything will be done in the foreseeable future. “It’s definitely not intentional,” Alex Orbison, Roy’s youngest son (pictured second from left with his brothers and mother), told Reuters on Friday. “It’s not like we don’t want people going by there or whatever. It’s been put to the backburner so long.”

His father died of a heart attack in 1988, aged 52, while enjoying a major comeback with the Traveling Wilburys and his own album “Mystery Girl.” His German-born widow Barbara and three sons, Wesley, Roy Jr. and Alex, buried him at the Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, thinking that they might eventually relocate the plot, Alex said.

“And of course in the very beginning it was just too painful to deal with anything,” he said. He agreed with Internet chatter that Orbison deserves a headstone. “As my Mom would say, it’s always just something that’s in the works.”

The Orbisons, led by Barbara in a leopard-print top and black stretch pants, were present in Hollywood for the unveiling of Orbison’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, outside the Capitol Records tower. Also on hand were producer T-Bone Burnett, who described Orbison as “an amazing, amazing cat,” Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, Chris Isaak, Dwight Yoakam, Traveling Wilburys bandmate Jeff Lynne, Joe Walsh, Eric Idle and director David Lynch, who helped the comeback process by using the Orbison song “In Dreams” in his 1986 film “Blue Velvet.”

With new restrictions in commercial fishing, Mark Marhefka finds other fish in the sea.

The Pittsfield Township Police Department is investigating a home invasion that occurred sometime Thursday at the Hamptons of Cloverlane Apartment Homes in the 4000 block of Hunt Club Drive. Police say someone entered the patio door of the apartment using a……

After shunning the public eye with self-imposed exile to a tiny town in New Hampshire since 1952 and fiercely protecting the legacy of his works, the death of JD Salinger this week has many betting on what will be the first unauthorized — or the unlikely scenario of authorized — book, film or stage work that will attempt to recapture the magic of “The Catcher in the Rye” or the mystery of the author’s life.

His last published work, a novella entitled “Hapworth 16, 1924” – one of several of his ‘Glass family’ stories — appeared in the New Yorker in 1965. But since then, nothing.

But by telling a newspaper in 1980 that “I love to write, and I assure you I write regularly” and throwing out hints in other rare interviews of works, as well as friends and family referring to a safe full of more than a dozen completed manuscripts, Salinger fans have long salivated over possible further works.

During his lifetime it was clear Salinger, who grew up in Manhattan the son of a Scotch-Irish mother and Polish-Jewish father, did not approve of unauthorized biographies of him, the search for him, his further writings or any other alleged rip-offs of “Catcher.”

The most damning came in 1999 and 2000, when his former 18-year-old girlfriend Joyce Maynard publisher her memoir 25 years after the end of their relationship and another memoir, called “Dream Catcher: A Memoir,” came a year later came from the daughter of Salinger’s second marriage to Claire Douglas. The daughter, Margaret Salinger, at times portrayed him as an obsessive and controlling figure.

Salinger firmly refused to hand over film and stage rights of “Catcher,” saying in a letter in 1957 he found the idea “odious enough” and that “my mail from producers has mostly been hell” (see www.lettersofnote.com.)

Holden Caulfield was upset by life’s “phonies”. And similarly Salinger hated fame, and all that came with it, of which he has said he felt bitter and had borne all he could bear.

Right up until his death he sought to protect his work. Just last year he sued a Swedish author to block the publication of a “Catcher” spin-off that was a reimagining Holden Caulfield aged in his seventies.

But with the threat of lawsuits possibly diminished, and former loved ones able to dish out more without fear of retribution, what will happen to his image? Will he be remembered as exploited or overprotective? What will the author’s estate do with any works? (his agent has not commented.) And how much of the unauthorized clutter should we bear?

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