Peter Allen was wonderfully talented. I saw his one-man show on Broadway, very good fun.
Meanwhile back in Bev Hills, a tv writer friend was trying to help Linda Lovelace go straight. He'd written a legit play for her to be presented in Las Vegas and was giving her acting lessons in his garage. Meanwhile, in his house, we had a serious visiting acting coach from London giving private lessons to children of the wealthy. He was ultra British proper-stuffy, quite the contrast to Ms Lovelace, whom he secretly admired. It was a hoot.
Peter Allen was essentially Liberace for the disco era. No wonder Liza married him (even though she was doing the mattress mambo with Martin Scorsese on the side).
Has anyone mentioned the yearlong Bi-Centennial celebration? People were coming from all over the world to help the USA celebrate our 200th birthday in 1976. The US media was NOT taking swipes at it as the leftist media would today. I was writing for ten magazines at the time and churned out dozens of bicentennial stories. They couldn't get enough.