Word: crooners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cracky Nonsense. Though Arnold has been peddling down-home songs for more than 20 years, this was his first appearance in Manhattan-and it marked a new era for country music. A few years ago, any country crooner billing himself as "The Tennessee Plowboy" would have been run out of most Northern cities. But now, in an age of shifting population, country music has penetrated the metropolis in a big way, and no one has helped the cause or stands to profit more than Arnold. His recent appearances in Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Chicago have drawn big crowds...
Born. To Robert Goulet, 32, crooner and TV star, currently doing the spy bit on ABC's Blue Light, and Carol Lawrence, 33, Broadway's darkly beautiful Maria in the Broadway version of West Side Story: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles...
...easy coping with a fast-moving life, all suggest a man who uses booze rather than letting it use him. He shoots enough golf to stay in the low 70s, enough films to make the top ten grossing actors every year. He sells more single records than any other crooner, stood 55 places ahead of Friend Frank Sinatra in 1965. Dean also earns about as much money as Sinatra-$1,000,000 a year-and nearly as much as before the 1956 bust-up with Jerry Lewis that was supposed to send him back to the mill in Steubenville, Ohio...
Least Believable Performance by a Supporting Actor: to Singer Tony Bennett, who plays the star's stooge as though someone had half-persuaded him that a crooner can burst into tears as easily as he bursts into song...
Naked Naiads. The biggest, noisiest and naughtiest contender in the new spystakes is The Silencers, with Crooner Dean Martin playing Matt Helm, a secret agent for ICE (Intelligence Counter Espionage). Its plot pits Helm against the mastermind of one of those atomic conspiracies, headquartered in what appears to be a sunken carrier under the desert near Alamogordo. But the real contest is between nudity and gadgetry. The striptease fun, with Cyd Charisse as team captain, begins during the opening credits, then gets right down to business in Martin's circular bed, which turns, travels, tilts, finally plunges him naked...