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Flicka loves applause, yet takes the shortest curtain calls possible. She is perhaps the least career-hungry diva in opera, yet few singers have gone so far so fast. It was Rudolf Bing who plucked her out of the Met opera studio when she was 24 and gave her a contract. Three years later she surprised everybody by taking a season off to broaden her experience in Europe. There, in the spring of 1973, she scored a smashing success as Mozart's Cherubino in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro at the Paris Opera, with Sir Georg...
SPECIALS, those traditional one-shot blockbusters, will feature Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Charlie Brown, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby and many others. This kind of show is virtually the property of NBC this year. The network has scheduled 190 hours of nonseries specials programming, plus 45 hours of a weekly spectacular it calls The Big Event. TBE is an amalgam of movies, novels-into-books and such nonhappenings as a 4½-hour special-during its worst rated year ever-in honor of NBC's own 50th anniversary. Highlights: the first network TV showing of Gone With...
...cross the Radcliffe water polo team off the Bing Crosby Fan Club list, as, for the second weekend in a row, the UMass Minutemaids squirted juice in the faces of the 'Cliffe squad, this time by an 11-3 count...
After 28 years of plugging orange juice for the folks at Minute Maid, Crooner Bing Crosby will soon sing the praises of a more potent libation. At a $10,000 bash for the press in Beverly Hills last week, Crosby, 75, and Comedian Phil Harris, 69, announced the formation of their own import company. The pair's first product: Mexico's Herradura Tequila, a blue-chip potable that will sell in the U.S. for $13 a fifth. "It's a natural," says der Bingle. "Phil has been known to take a drink from time to time...
...reason that Bing is put through these torments is never quite clear and not very pertinent. Attention is constantly riveted not on what Playwright Guare has in mind but on his parade of freak characters, described as a collection of "Black People, White People, Straight People, Gay People ... The Spirit of the Entire Divine Comedy...