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...Street-Legal are heartbroken ballads, wounded, surly and defenseless by turns. Dylan delivers them in typically left-field fashion, backed by three women singers as he lets the songs rip like some Bleecker Street parody of a Vegas lounge lizard. In concert, with billowing shirt, plunging neckline and a crooner's microphone calisthenics, Dylan works his way through his standard repertory and sometimes looks as if he is auditioning for The Gong Show...
Singer Frank Sinatra seldom ducks a rumble with a reporter. No sooner had he dropped his $3 million lawsuit against New York Gossip Columnist Earl Wilson, who wrote an unauthorized biography of the crooner, than he filed a $2 million complaint against Los Angeles Times Columnist Jody Jacobs. In an upcoming episode of Laugh-In, Ol' Blue Eyes goes after splashier revenge-by pouring a can of green paint (actually, dyed Cream of Wheat cereal) over a Rona Barrett lookalike. The victim: Actress June Gable, who plays a gossip-caster named Ms. Groana on the show. "He dumped this...
DIED. Bing Crosby, 74, perennial crooner-comedian who made nonchalance an art; of an apparent heart attack; on a golf course near Madrid (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Crosby's biggest critical success was Country Girl, but his personal favorite among his movies was High Society (1956). It found him singing and dancing with Frank Sinatra at an "elegant swellegant" party and playing a concertina and crooning True Love, as only the first crooner could croon, to not-yet-royal Grace Kelly. Unlike many stars, Crosby surrounded himself with other big talents. He worked with Fred Astaire in Holiday Inn (in which he sang White Christmas), with Ethel Barrymore in Just for You and with Ingrid Bergman in Bells of St. Mary...
...month of the crab's big concert calendar will fittingly be closed out by gentle crooner Alice Cooper, who will also be welcoming special guest stars the Atlanta Rhythm Section to his nightmare. Tickets are $7.50 and $8.50 (surprise!) at the box office, Ticketron, Out of Town and Strawberries...