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Tube Mocs.
S95 Value
ROCKPORT
Asst. Rockports
100-110 Values
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NUNN BUSH
Wing-Tip
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COLE•HAAN
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$150 Value
Dress Shoes
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L
ike his current subject, Bob Spitz
is accustomed to taking sharp turns
in his life. That's how he became a
writer.
"It was the easiest thing I ever did. I was
27 years old. I just walked out the door."
The door Spitz, now 40, walked out of
belonged to Elton John. At the time Spitz
was managing the flamboyant rocker.
"It was the day John Lennon and Elton
played [Madison Square] Garden
together in 1976. It was the last time
Lennon played on stage. I decided I had
had enough. I was in a business I no
longer felt was inspiring in any way."
Spitz grew up in a Conservative Jewish
family in Reading, Pa. His original ca-
reer direction was toward medicine. His
parents talked him out of it.
"When I graduated from college, they
told me I should try my first love —
music. They told me to go to New York
and get it out of my system.
Spitz found employment in the produc-
tion of "The Partridge Family" television
series. Working with him was a guy
named Mike Appel. When opportunity
knocked, both men jumped for it.
"One night a guy walked in the door
and the next day we just quit our jobs and
joined Bruce Springsteen," he recalls.
The Boss was an unknown in those
days. Spitz and Appel were Springsteen's
managers through the first two albums,
before the breakthrough Born to Run.
With the rock-and-roll life behind him
now, Spitz says, "I have no other desire
in my life than to write."
His 1979 book about the Woodstock fes-
tival, Barefoot in Babylon,recently was
republished. He wrote the script for the
film, A Reasonable Doubt, starring
Marlee Matlin and Jennifer Beales. The
movie was produced by Menachem Golan
and directed by Linda Yellin, who pro-
duced Playing for Time.
He says he is working on a novel and
another film script. Called One Night
With You, the comedy is about "people
who, no matter how popular or unpopular
they are, find themselves isolated from
each other," Spitz says.
And he just signed a contract with RCA
to record an album and then write about
the experience. Spitz says this exercise is
not the ultimate expression of self-
consciousness in art.
"Once you become serious about the ar-
tistic side, you stop being self-conscious,"
he says. "It's a fairly ideal way to live." ❑
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$155 Value
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