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SOMETIMES THE LITTLE RASCALS would try to put on a show. Spanky would cry, "Let's put on a show!" Darla would heave amorously at the dynamism of the idea, and Alfalfa would get the lead as chief crooner. (Buckwheat, of course had to build scenery and sell tickets.) Eventually the rich kids down the street, unmitigatedly evil and oversized in their velvet Fauntleroy suits would come around to tear down the stage and abduct Darla. Like little well-dressed Huns they would attack until sandbagged by the faithful stagehand Buckwheat or popped in the eye by Captain Spanky...
...event, like Aspen itself, brought together the worlds of big-buck entertainment and world-class skiing. The waiflike, French-born defendant had been a lead Folies-Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while...
...show how much I care, I wore my hair," quipped long-playing Crooner Bing Crosby, 72, after taking the concert stage in New York City last week. Crosby, who last appeared on Broadway in 1931, began a two-week stint with Old Friend Rosemary Clooney, 48. Also on the program: Wife Kathryn, 43, and their three teen-age children. Though his locks may be thinner, the Groaner's baritone seemed as full as ever as he traipsed through almost 50 songs in the three-hour show. Afterward Crosby reminisced about the first time he played New York...
...usually plays harried Detective Sergeant Stavros on the Kojak series, has been playing to New York nightclub audiences lately -all thanks to an album of Greek folk tunes that he recorded last April. Judging from Savalas' enthusiasm after one performance, he may have brighter prospects as a cafe crooner than a TV cop. Says he: "I was walking four feet off the ground and singing like a cannon." A cannon? "Like a cannon and a bird...
Died. Johnny Mercer, 66, onetime mellow-voiced blues crooner, four-time Oscar-winning lyricist; after a long illness and brain surgery; in Bel Air, Calif. As a lyricist, Mercer had a knack for turning the vernacular into such enduring pop songs as Jeepers Creepers, Lazybones, That Old Black Magic and Moon River...