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...Paul Anka is one of the richest entertainers in the world. When night falls over the mountains outside his Sun Valley condominium, he sits down at the baby grand to compose. "I like to have four or five songs going at once," he says with satisfaction. Beside the piano is a typewriter to which Paul, a 60-words-a-minute typist, turns to do the lyrics. It is the same machine on which he has tapped out such solid gold hits as My Way for Frank Sinatra, She's a Lady for Tom Jones and (You're) Havin...
...Look. This week, for the first time in 14 years, Anka returns to Broadway, which-despite the nice things he has to say about it-locked him out last September. That was during the musicians' strike. Unfazed, Paul plans to give the entire take from his ten one-night stands to New York City charities as a gesture of thanks to the place where his entrepreneurial genius was first sparked...
Prince may also lose his Candide, which is the kind of borderline show that may not reopen if the strike is long. The union's refusal to work while negotiating has postponed Paul Anka's two-week S.R.O. one-man gig on Broadway. He was paying his musicians five times the union rate. Adela Holzer hoped to open Scott Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha last week. Now it is in jeopardy, and so is its 37-member orchestra...
...erroneously as the Beatles' successors. A more worthwhile satellite trip to Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel exhibited the magic team of Siegfried and Roy briskly turning lions, tigers and panthers into each other and thin air. The evening's worst-called play featured Nonstop Composer Paul Anka accompanying Tennis Star Jimmy Connors in his crooning debut. Jimmy's voice cannot compete with his two-fisted backhand; he had to be helped by a taped track. Howard fatuously added, "This was a great magical moment in musical history...
From Beverly Hills he flew off to Las Vegas for a day to consult with Songwriter-Singer Paul Anka, who has confected a ditty called I Believe There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love, about Jimmy Connors' revived romance with the First Lady of Tennis, Chris Evert, 20. Connors, who has never sung professionally, will record the song himself. After meeting with Anka, Connors hopped back to Los Angeles to greet Evert, who had just jetted in from Philadelphia for a tournament...