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Hardly a bobby-soxer could be found, but the silk-stocking crowd showed up in force as Crooner Frank Sinatra, 59, Singer Ella Fitzgerald, 57, and Bandleader Count Basie, 71, took to the stage of Manhattan's Uris Theater. Sinatra sounded fuller of voice than he has in years, Ella delivered her love songs like a woman who realizes she looks more like a schoolmarm than a possible vamp, and the Count, how roly-poly in old age, played only three numbers with his band, which was a shame. But their fans have not faded away. The opening-night...
...that Actress Debbie Reynolds, 42, romancing on the screen with the ever confident, debonair Warren Beatty, 37? Not quite. The Debbie Reynolds look-alike in the forthcoming movie Shampoo is Carrie Fisher, daughter of Debbie and Crooner Eddie Fisher. Like Mom, Carrie is starting her Hollywood career at age 17. Unlike the star of such '50s films as Tammy and the Bachelor, Carrie is shunning the girl-next-door image with some four-letter dialogue. "We have the same facial flesh," says Carrie of her resemblance to mother. "Cute. Round and cute. I think the reason they wanted...
Died. Robert Field Rounseville, 60, resonant tenor who kicked around for a decade as an underemployed nightclub crooner and vaudevillian before winning critical notice as a smooth, sensitive operatic lead in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 1948, sang the title roles in Tales of Hoffmann and the original production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and headlined as the padre in Man of La Mancha; of a heart attack; in his studio in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
...Agnew will need more help than that from his friends. What friends? "Well," says one former aide, "there's Frank Sinatra." Agnew and Sinatra dined with two other people at Chicago's classy, brassy Pump Room a few weeks back (total tab: $150), and the aging crooner is asking members of his crowd to contribute to the cause. Sinatra is also acting as agent for the book that Agnew plans to write some day, and is said to be asking $500,000. So far, no takers...
Died. Walden Robert Cassoto, 37, the crooner known as Bobby Darin, who at 22 became a rock-'n'-roll star with Splish Splash, won a larger audience with his driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife; following open-heart surgery for a longtime heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A confessed student of the Sinatra style, Darin characteristically loosened his tie and snapped his fingers even when singing somber songs. In 1960 he married Sandra Dee, but by the middle of the decade both his marriage and his career were turning sour. A divorce...