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BARON JAMES: THE RISE OF THE FRENCH ROTHSCHILDS by Anka Muhlstein Vendome; 223 pages; $17.95 When James Rothschild arrived in Paris in 1811, he headed straight for the most fashionable part of town to rent rooms. At 19 he was leaving behind the suffocating congestion of the Frankfurt ghetto and embracing a city that 20 years earlier had become the first place in Europe to accept Jews without any legal re trictions. Young Rothschild was as drunk on the future as were the Parisians: abandoned the dietary laws, changed name from Jakob to James - Anglicisms were then in style...
...Anka Muhlstein, a Parisian who has written about Proust and Queen Victoria, gives a vivid account of the Rothschild empire, the brothers' enormous shrewdness and energy, their speculations and boundless reserves of money, their private "code" for sensitive business letters, and their swift couriers...
...middle-aged kids and urgent anticipation in today's teens. Paging Peter Gallagher for a spot on American Bandstand - and the Idolmaker makers to put on film the story behind the album that really summarizes their vision of '50s rock 'n' roll: Annette Sings Anka...
...leased his old hits for five years to a golden-oldie outfit called American International. The deal is likely to bring him half a million in royalties. Residuals from the Tonight Show theme, which he wrote in 1962, yield $30,000 a year. For $50,000 against royalties, Anka cut Kodak's advertising jingle, The Times of Your Life. Now Paul and the jingle are rising on the pop charts as well. This Christmas he is opening his own auberge, Chez Paul, in Sun Valley. Next May he will open a million-dollar discotheque in Vegas. His business headquarters...
...what is, after all, a hangover of the '50s schmaltz. But Paul's smooth style is always in fashion somewhere, and with the raucous '60s behind him, he is even more successful than in his days as a teen-age idol. A glance at the young Anka hardly explains his durability in show business: could that chubby kid with the wet look who dated pubescent Mousketeer Annette Funicello really have been smart? Paul was the son of a Lebanese restaurateur in Ottawa, but he was only hungry for success. At 14, he won a three-day trip...