Hollywood — it’s amazing how, in this city of fantasy, people really don’t have that much imagination when it comes to style. Oh, there’s the Rodney’s crowd — but that’s been so overmediaized (and Ben Edmonds will glorify them further in a future article) so I’ll leave it be for now. People in El Lay mostly wear studded jeans suits, wildly patterned shirts, exposed hairy chests, and medallions. Very Bob Guccione. So it was interesting to see what they would come up with for a costume party when Neil Bogart tossed a major production for his newly formed Casablanca Records and its first group, Kiss, at the Century Plaza Hotel this past month.

Wearing costumes didn’t work at all for the Pointer Sisters party in New York — people are just too cool for that back in that jaded, cynical town. But here, somehow it was fun — the (you’ll pardon the expression) vibes are so good in L.A. etc. etc... it was different, and