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THE BARB - 8 Available at your local Bar, Batb or Booksto or by mail order for $5.50 (postpaid) to: I STREET • SAN 4MHM4 • (4fl5) 6M Gay-ing To The Movies Continued From Page 5 Jacksonville MCC Gets New Home The worship coordinator of Jacksonville’s Metro politan Community Church announced recently their plans to rent, with option to buy the old Greek Orthodox Church located at Laura and Union Streets. The first worship service is scheduled for Decem ber 1, 1974 at 7:30 p.m., with their formal Dedica tion Service to be an nounced. The cnurch, we are told has a sanctuary with a seating capacity of approx imately 180 on the main level. The basement which houses the offices, will also be used as a social hall. Everyone is excitedly preparing to begin the much needed renovation of the new church home and ‘has invited all those in terested in participating to contact the church to find •out how they may help. if getting mere is half the fun, Being there can be all the fun* ...FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF PERSONS, BUSINESSES OR FIRMS DUPLICATINGOR INFRINGEMENT OF OUR PATENT RIGHTS! mOMAHDOHUn (PATENT PROTECTED) VJOW 100.00 [WARD I THERAPEUTIC GENITAL DEVICE MAINTAINS A FIRM ERECTION EVEN AFTER CLIMAX!!!! ENLARGES PENIS SAFE CHECK OH MONEY ORDER TO MR.BALLM0R P.O.BOX 42097 SAN FRANCISCO,CA. 94142 Safety-first advice for tree trimmers this season. Step up to the taller branches on a “Two Step” folding stepstool such as this one from Cosco, instead of a rickety chair. The tree will look just as pretty — and there’ll be no sprained ankles to mar your holiday fun. Ekland In "The AAa n WithTheGolde n Gun Paul Newman And Sieve McQueen In "The Towering inferno" wastes an all-star cast, films” in school, and in previpus commercial documentaries. Unless you’re really into the sub ject, or get off watching animals mate, there’s not enough new to make it worth your while. But it’s nice to hear Bobby Short singing the Cole Porter tune that lends the film its title. *** Two of the biggest moneymakers at present are examples of how the public can be made to flock to a bad movie. “The Trial of Billy Jack” was pre-sold by the tremendous popularity of just-plain-“Billy Jack,” which preceded it. A heavy advertising campaign rein forced the anticipation. But the new picture, twice as long as the original, is an endless cry ing towel cataloguing America’s recent sins. I assume that extensive research was done to de termine what the potential audience wanted to see, and the film was crafted to satisfy them; but I hope the high school/college set has better taste. *♦* The photography is nice, with Arizona looking as good as it did when John Ford shot there; but the new “Billy Jack” is-just pps * - yf/j-s ■.OQjB** • too trying. “Earthquake” uses a gimmick, “Sensurround,” Which makes the theatre seem to tremble during the quake scenes. It’s effective and makes about 10 minutes of the picture worth seeing. The rest is crudely-written formula melodrama, that, '-mfl» ♦ * the best (only?) perform ance; but Ava Gardner has the best line, in a quarrel with Heston, who plays her husband: “Don’t lower your voice to me!” SEASON GREETINGS You Bet Your Sweet Ass We Open On Sunday (Till 3 AM) Powder Puff Lounge 28 East Main St. Chattanooga, Tenn. Cherice Nicole Heads An All Star Cast m ; With Lorraine North Adrian Sanchez Misti Dawn Disc Jockey Thursday Friday Saturday & Sunday 3 SKows Nightly Friday Saturday & Sunday Phone (615) 265-9190 Los Angels, Ca. Liberation Publication, Inc., headed by David Goodstein, President of the San Francisco based Whitman-Radclyffe Foundation, has purchased the Los Angles based Advocate newspaper. The Ad vocate is the U.S.’s largest gay publication. "HELLO DOLLIES” By Gretta Gossip II Hill $pIlo agjjirbyaJJ, you dear do badders, more grease from ; . ; ,Gretjt@B yks- ' the year comes to an end, I want to takenthis opportunity to thank you one and all for being so rangy, iapdygiying “good ole Gretta’’ a chance to dish the ; r dirt ie^eryfomonth. Jn the coming year, I hope that everyope will be twice as tacky, and throw a few really explosive public scenes for me to report on. Merry Christmas kiddies and a Gay New Year! Now on with the news -- First of all, The Barb would like to thank everyone at the Columbia MCC for their kindness and hospitality shown to the editor and CRC representative, Bill Smith, and Steve Warren recently. Rick Moore, Maynard Cash, many thanks guys. I would also like to wish George Meader, the new worship coordinator the best of luck on his new transfer to Columbia. Enough of that - now down to the real rot. K.R. did it again. These feeble suicide attempts leave much to be desired (like success for instance). This time it was two bottles of aspirins. I hear the doctors at emergency are busy enough without your aggrevating antics. Honey you’d better wise up before you don’t have one friend left. How about a visit to a shrink for starters? I hear that C.F. returned to Philadelphia. Good luck babe, keep in touch. For those of you wondering about our little April Dawn, she just won the Miss Blue Goose title in Des Moines. That crazy queen always was wild for a loose goose - Love ya, baby. Congratulations are in order for our Co-editor, Jeanni. She just had a baby boy. It’s a Rhesus monkey, four months old and dig this - - he wears diapers and uses English Leather. Talk about a lucky monkey! Hear S. L. and D.W. are at the “grin and share it” stage, and friends are betting the new year will bring a new life style to these two. There’s a well known T.V. around town that swears she had surgery. Mary, tell me how you managed to become a woman and still main tain an 8” erection? That’s it for the end of this year kiddies. Raise hell and have a happy?