Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candid letter to the London Daily Express, which recently ran a music column headed "Is Bing Crosby Going Out -or Has He Gone?," the Old (52) Groaner groaned: "I'm 'long gone.' I just don't sing as well as I used to ... The feel for a song isn't there, the desire to sing, to be in action-and when this is absent, so is the style." Modest Millionaire Crosby was not upset by prospects of oblivion. "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin that...
...Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl. In 1946 Christoff made his Rome debut (as Colline in La Bohéme) and three years later achieved Boris, which had been his musical ambition since the time he saw the opera as a child. When the Met's Rudolf Bing invited him to New York in 1950, his visa was denied-Christoff never learned why. This time, the combination of eased diplomatic relations with Communist nations and some careful spadework by the San Francisco Opera officials did the trick...
...army of Ed Murrow's electronic gremlins only two hours after Frankie had moved in. Kicking off his fourth season on Person to Person (CBS), Murrow positioned his cameras in every cranny of Sinatra's two-bedroom Japanese house, with its elaborate hi-fi gadgets, Bing Crosby recordings, a TV set that swings out of its niche to front any chair in the room, and a huge kitchen, chock-full of pizzas. Sinatra bounced around each room with assured grace, talking pure Sinatrese. Samples: "I'm very large down in Australia." Pointing to the fancy trappings...
Trigger-quick on wisecracks, some of them corny even for a simple-minded oater, this horseplay opera is a Technicolored remake of the 1936 Bing Crosby musical, Rhythm on the Range. Its chief assets: four new songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, two leading ladies (Lori Nelson and Jackie Loughery), and a personable prize bull named Cuddles, who provides a beefy relief from the Martin and Lewis brand...
...then there is Louis Armstrong. When Satchmo does an eye-rolling duet with Bing (Now You Has Jazz) or belts out a hot wedding march on his trumpet, High Society becomes really yare...