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...Angeles after that, the Limeliters will appear in 29 cities before Christmas, but they are so sensitive to the environment of their performances that there are some places they try hard to avoid, such as 1) any auditorium with cupids on the walls, although "Bobby Darin might not mind it," says Gottlieb; 2) Las Vegas, a place "I would gladly join an organization to eradicate"; and 3) the Jack Paar Show, which "is like listening to a Methodist minister who has had four martinis...
...written hit songs (Splish Splash), plays the vibraphone, drums and guitar, and offers between-numbers commentary that is sometimes blue and often corny. His promoters at the Hollywood pressagent firm of Rogers & Cowan lavishly plug his innate sex appeal and his intuition for showmanship, which collide onstage when Darin, fervently singing, wobbles a disengaged microphone in his hand and slides sideways in a characteristic motion that could only suggest a young Dungeness crab in trouble...
...Tone Rolls. Someone else might well have been Bobby Darin. The incumbent, born Walden Robert Cassotto in The Bronx in 1936, contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show...
...Hunter College,* but the sound of the drums remained in his ears, and he quit after one semester to become a musician and actor. He also fell hard at 18 for a 31-year-old dancer who squeezed him, crushed him, and finally threw him out into the street. Darin suggests that this was the start of his defensive brashness and hard-shelled egotism, for which he is now famous (he throws old friends out of his dressing room, barks at audiences, and wades roughly and silently through masses of clutching fans). His singing career started in 1956, when...
...pithy advice and practical philosophy. Then last summer, on the location of a film they made together in Italy, he first saw the fluorescent tresses of 18-year-old Actress Sandra Dee. They were married in December, and now live in Hollywood. Before he left New York, Darin vowed that he would not return professionally to his home city until he could play among Manhattan's top brass-at the Copacabana. Now back for the second time (the first was in June), he showed up for work one evening last week in a two-tone Rolls-Royce, slipped...