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...Help It or The T.A.M.I. Show, because The Idolmaker is something else, and less. I recalls one withered branch of pop nostalgia: the South Philly sound of Fabian and Frankie Avalon, which is to genuine early rock as Fritos are to grits. Frankie sang of Dede Dinah and sounded like the revenge of the adenoids. Fabian, legend has it, could sing on key only on alternate Thursdays, and his records were said to be creative sutures of dozens of different takes. Frankie will be remembered as the wet blanket at the Beach Party movies; Fabian, in a more enlightened time...
Evoking a witty television show they did together four years ago, Burnett and Sills swapped roles: Carol singing Un bel di from Madama Butterfly, Bubbles busting in with Stormy Weather. Dinah Shore came on with Blues in the Night; Mary Martin with My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Ethel Merman belted There's No Business Like Show Business. Leontyne Price sang a moving What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line; Renata Scotto decided to Over the Rainbow. Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm brought down the house with a Sillified version of I Want What I Want When I Want...
...instead of yelling at the audience, he jumps down into the crowd, Springsteen style, and romps among them. Like our old friend Paul Free, he has also had his shoulder-length hair shaped into some thing more modish, just right for the group's appearances on the Dinah Shore show and their own celebrity golf tournament. The Doobies' management has already booked the boys into Las Vegas...
...them in his Manhattan duplex.) If forced to spend a couple of hours at an airport, he finds a lounge or booth and places one long-distance call after another to his many friends, who range from a Who's Who of the concert world to Henry Kissinger, Dinah Shore, Arthur Miller and Jimmy Connors. Members of the Israel Philharmonic like to tease him about the three-minute orchestral introduction in the Beethoven Violin Concerto, which leaves Stern, as soloist, with nothing to do. The musicians say they cannot understand why he does not use the time to phone...
...after Libby (Dinah Manoff) appears, with no advance notice. Libby, 19, is the daughter Herb had deserted when he left New York after a divorce. A tomboy sort, wearing green-bordered knee socks and walking boots, Libby has trekked across the country to find out what her father is like. She suffers instant disenchantment. Dressed in seedy duds with a baseball cap glued to his head, Herb is not at all the David Niven type, with pipe, Great Danes, and book-lined living room, that Libby had envisioned...