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Resurgent Sun Valley, Idaho, the nation's oldest ski resort, has always been popular with the Hollywood set; on hand for the holidays were such showfolk as Art Linkletter, Director William Wyler, Crooner Andy Williams and Composer Henry Mancini. Most visible by virtue of sheer numbers: Bobby and Ethel and seven of their nine children, staying in a five-bedroom cottage across from the Lodge. Bobby, who skis with more passion than poise, latched onto a group of teen-age girl racers, delighted them by setting the pace on a fast down hill run. Son Joseph...
...days were often bad: one long round of run, Buddy, run from bill collectors and irate bandleaders. On and off, through romances and rifts, he played with Artie Shaw, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey (four times) and Harry James (three times), once even took a fling at being a nightclub crooner. Trouble was, Rich had and still has a low regard for bandleaders. "The drummer is the real quarterback of a band," he says. "Hell, Guy Lombardo might just as well be hailing a cab on the bandstand. None of the musicians look at him." The compulsion to say what...
...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...
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...