Word: cesar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, Bronzini last week installed an all-double-breasted window, within three days had sold 15 double-breasted suits and 30 sports jackets. At Man at Ease in Chicago, Proprietor Cesar Rotondi reports: "Double-breasted suits account for 50% of our suit sales. It's unheard...
Rubinstein's feats of memory are legendary. In 1903 he caused a sensation in Warsaw by performing Paderewski's Sonata in E Flat Minor the day after it was published; he learned Cesar Franck's complex Symphonic Variations on the train en route to a concert hall in Madrid. He can commit a sonata to memory in one hour, and he can play as many as 250 lieder. His friends used to play a kind of "Stump Artur" game in which they would call out titles?excerpts from symphonies, operas, Cole Porter scores?to see if he could play them...
...gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo with Greer Garson on maracas, Danny Kaye on bass and Cesar Romero on fiddle). He dubbed the piano score for a film (I've Always Loved You) and collected $85,000 for the three days' work. His RCA Victor records sold so well that he called his place "The House That Victor Built...
...chose Burt Ward, a 20-year-old water skier whose reading of "Gleeps!" will not be matched in this age, moving one acting teacher to call Batman "a film anthology of things not to do." For arch-villains in subsequent episodes, Dozier has signed Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) and Cesar Romero (The Joker). The talk of the trade is that Frank Sinatra is furious: he wanted to play The Joker...
...payments come in all sorts of packages. Thunderbird Wine gives a new Ford Thunderbird or the cash equivalent for doing one 20-second spot. Cesar Romero and Alexis Smith quickly snatched for Thunderbirds. Joanne Dru and Sebastian Cabot took the cash. James Mason agreed to plug the wine, but apparently felt that he was not in the Thunderbird class, demanded and got a Rolls-Royce instead. Now Sir Laurence Olivier is all but lined up. He wants not one but two Rolls-Royces, and for his 20 seconds of classical bouquet, he will probably get them...