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...America's most popular hits in the 1950s, including Come-on-a My House, and she co-starred with Bing Crosby in the 1954 film White Christmas. She nearly lost her career to drugs and alcohol in the wake of a disastrous marriage to Oscar-winning actor JosE Ferrer, but her voice won critics over again when she made a comeback in the early 1970s. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Grammys...
Since the release of their album which included a surprise contribution from Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club fame on “Que Pasa Contigo,” (“We get in monthly bridge tournaments with him, and we asked him over one time and were like, ‘Would you sing?’ and he was like, ‘No,’ but we won a bunch of money from him, and he was like, ‘Well, I’ll sing,’” says...
...ethnic vote proved critical for both candidates; Green, who squeaked by popular Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer in a bitter primary contest, was depending heavily on the city's black Democrats to keep his bid alive. Latinos, on the other hand, seemed more inclined to vote for Bloomberg, if only to signal their disgust for Ferrer's erstwhile competition...
...Wednesday morning, mayor-elect Bloomberg took to the streets to thank his supporters and joined Fernando Ferrer for breakfast in the Bronx. Obviously exhausted by Tuesday's late-night dramatics, Bloomberg was nonetheless in a voluble mood. On his way to another post-election meeting, the businessman stopped to remind reporters of a campaign promise he intends to keep: He will accept only $1 of the mayor's annual $195,000 salary...
...Green spent the weekend doing what little he could to convince the city?s Latino population that he is not a racially divisive figure, as his rivals have charged. A bruising and exceedingly nasty run-off battle with Fernando Ferrer battered Green?s reputation among minorities, and the Democratic candidate spent much of the weekend among black voters, playing up his liberal credentials...