Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than-average figure. Husband No. 1, brash little Mickey Rooney, declares stiffly: "I have a code of ethics, and it doesn't include talking about my ex-wives." Husband No. 2, Bandleader Artie Shaw, says: "She is a nice girl. I feel complete detachment." Potential Husband No. 3, Crooner Frank Sinatra (now on the hunt for a divorce), is on record as saying only that she is "terrific." Only one of the men who have pursued her does not share this impassioned discretion. Spanish Bullfighter Mario Cabre freely expressed his feelings at her departure from Madrid last spring...
While We're Young (Tony Bennett; Columbia). Crooner Bennett handles a fine lilting waltz with gallant respect...
After his Mexican "vacation" fiasco with Cinemactress Ava Gardner, Crooner Frank Sinatra turned up in Reno, called reporters in to make his peace with the press and hand out a bit of news: he will sing in Nevada nightclubs for six weeks, then start his own divorce proceedings against wife Nancy. But somehow everyone was beginning to find the whole affair a little wearisome. Yawned the New York Daily News in a one-sentence editorial: "Anybody know of a bigger bore just now than Frank Sinatra...
...Bagpipes. Miller picks the tunes, picks the singers to record them, sometimes even picks the albums to sheath the records. Latest pickings: offbeat instrumentations, e.g., harpsichord background for Clooney, French horns for Crooner Guy Mitchell. Says Miller: "You've got to work out a gimmick that'll get people's attention and hold it. You need that sense of communication." One senseless communication: a Dinah Shore vocal backed by six caterwauling bagpipes. Admits Miller...
...Crooner Frank Sinatra, carrying on his round-the-world pursuit of Cinemactress Ava Gardner, entered new territory when he and Ava flew off to Mexico for "a quiet vacation" together. It turned out to be neither very quiet nor much of a vacation. At El Paso, when reporters asked if the junket was going to include plans for a quick south-of-the-border divorce from Wife Nancy (who is about to bring her own suit in California), Frankie snarled: "You're wasting your time. Why don't you go home and have your dinner?" In Mexico City...