Word: anka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main, the ducktail warblers of popular singing-the Fabians, the Bobby Darins, the Frankie Avalons-are as interchangeable as bottle caps. Like the others, Paul Anka was a veteran performer before he was 20. His hair is a studied sculpture in coal tar and astrakhan. His voice sounds as if his shirt collar is too tight. But Anka is also a songwriter and the tunes that have made...
Since he was 14, Anka has written some 200 songs, picking them out on guitar or piano. In fact, since he composes more tunes than he can profitably record himself, he writes for other singers as well (Patti Page, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis). Not content with a bestseller career in the jukebox circuit, he has spread out into nightclubs, TV and movies. Last summer, landing on a Normandy Beach in a scene for 20th Century-Fox's The Longest Day (TIME, Sept. 8), he performed so valorously that General Dwight D. Zanuck has since expanded his role and called...
...Anka is a devoted admirer of Elvis Presley, but onstage his style consciously avoids imitation of the master. Planting his mitey (5 ft. 4 in., 135 lbs.) frame firmly on the boards, he neither rocks nor rolls, and his pelvis is so steady that it could house a seismograph. "I go out there to comfort the people," he says. His ministrations are weakest when he is doing old standards like Stardust or his gasping version of Hello Voting Lovers. But his fans are really there to hear Anka sing Anka, and he always scores with Diana, You Are My, Destiny...
Casting as he goes along, he has recently signed stuffier sterns than Fabian, Sands and Anka. Pentagon Peter Lawford will play a British commando leader,*Richard Todd a British major, and William Holden will be U.S. Lieut. Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort. Henry Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play...
...lady with a rolled-up copy of Variety could have done it alone. This particular D-day occurred scarcely a week ago, and the three U.S. soldiers were nothing more than those duck-tailed microphones, Singers Paul Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near...