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...Longest Day. General Zanuck's war games are played off like cops and robbers. With 42 stars and a musical score by Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...
...Longest Day. General Zanuck's war games are played off like cops and robbers. With 42 stars and a musical score by Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans, dodging bullets (even the casualties are bloodless), and scaring old ladies. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...
...among others, Vibraharpist Cal Tjader, Bandleader Lionel Hampton, Saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Zoot Sims. The record companies, hungry for a trend, are now ready to rush 15 or so albums with bossa nova numbers onto the market. Among the featured performers: Peggy Lee, George Shearing. Vic Damone, Paul Anka...
Today, from an office on Manhattan's West 57th Street, Anka runs a musical empire that includes Paul Anka Productions, the Spanka Music Corp. and the Flanka Music Corp. A rug on the reception room floor has an immense orange anchor woven into its grey background, symbolizing the most improbable theme song in the history of Tin Pun Alley: Anchor's Aweigh, with which Anka opens and closes his performances...
With a suite on Central Park South, a house in New Jersey and his father on the Anka-Spanka-Flanka payroll, Paul zips around in a black Lincoln Continental convertible, sometimes writes as many as six songs a day, and is working on a Broadway musical about teen-age American students in France. Figuring that his fans will be with him for what seems like forever ("Remember, those little girls are going to grow up and be 29 someday"), he is trying to make good on a promise he cooed to them in song last year: / hope that...