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...sketches a grimly vivid picture of the depressed Jersey of the early 1980s, a Springsteen vision of darkness at the edge of town. The narrator dreams idly of escaping by becoming an astronaut, but he knows the hotel is his prison, and the service bell is his warden: "BING! BING! BING! That little bell going off put your life on hold. You heard it and you hopped...
Cameos are almost as old as movie stars. In the 1928 Show People, Marion Davies doesn't notice that the fellow asking for her autograph is Charlie Chaplin. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope traded cameos in their '40s films. But this summer has a gleeful glut of celebs dropping in unannounced on other people's parties...
...Bing Sung ’66, who was a member of HMC’s board of directors until the end of 1985, said that such large holdings were not the norm...
DIED. ROSEMARY CLOONEY, 74, cello-voiced singer and actress; of lung cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She disdained her 1951 song Come on-a My House, but the hit launched her career, which included starring with Bing Crosby in White Christmas and more recently giving warm, musicianly cabaret performances. This year she won a lifetime-achievement Grammy...
...DIED. ROSEMARY CLOONEY, 74, enchanting American singer renowned for her radiant voice; in New York City. Clooney released some of America's most popular hits in the 1950s, including Come-on-a My House, and she co-starred with Bing Crosby in the 1954 film White Christmas. She nearly lost her career to drugs and alcohol in the wake of a disastrous marriage to Oscar-winning actor JosE Ferrer, but her voice won critics over again when she made a comeback in the early 1970s. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Grammys...