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...boxing ring, complete with cushioned corners and a taut canvas mat. After a few more boxers weigh in on the thigh-high Detecto scale off to the side of the ring, the M.C. and three judges take their seats at a long table on the bandstand. A bell rings, and the casual visitor is startled to see the first contestants. Five-year-old Shawn Serface and five-year-old Dan Casarez are in their corners having their faces smeared with Vaseline to reduce the chance of cuts. Their hands are wrapped in gauze and placed inside huge (16 oz.) boxing...
...many friends. The usual types huddled around the bandstand: the Boy Scout leader, remembering for anyone who would listen that Eddie hadn't made it all the way to Eagle Scout, but had always been such "an aggressive little kid"; his wife, once Eddie's Sunday school teacher, concurring in the verdict of aggressiveness; the college football buddy, the one who remembered King in his days as a guard for Boston College in the late '40's. This last one held some promise, perhaps a quote that would bolster the ready-mixed comparison between two politicians bred in the offensive...
...musicians, technicians and hangers-on, who use nicknames among themselves like "T. Snake," "The Beast" and "Fast Eddie." Some of their escapades are memorialized in Willie's song about his longtime drummer, aide and confidant, Paul ("The Devil") English, 45, who packs a .38 special on the bandstand...
...spend more time with his family (he and Connie have daughters, ages 8 and 5, scarcely older than the four grandchildren that stem from his first marriage). But Willie knows the touring will never end. First and last he is a honky-tonk troubadour. To see him on a bandstand is to see a man truly in his element. He is hunched over his battered Martin acoustic guitar, nodding and smiling as the applause of recognition washes over the opening bars of each number; singing to a shouted obbligato of "You said it, Willie! Sing it!"; swigging a beer between...
...Carr had stuck to the basics. They have compiled a fairly impressive group of retread stars to make the era complete; Eve Arden plays Rydell High's Principal McGee, Joan Blondell is Vi, the confidante/waitress type, Edd Byrnes does a good job as Vince Fontaine, host of National Bandstand, and Sid Caesar is a good fascist coach Calhoun. Of course, Sha-Na-Na is there too, as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers, and "everyone's favorite '50s group...