Word: flacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though, spurning an offer from Promoter Sidney Bernstein, entrepreneur of their 1964 and 1965 trips to the U.S., of $1,000,000 for two same-day performances at New York City's Shea Stadium. It's not that the money doesn't seem evergreen, explained Beatles Flack Tony Barrow, but that the electronics problem makes the boys so blue. "Until they have devised some way of presenting the 1967 sound onstage," Barrow said, "they will not make appearances. Mr. Bernstein might not mind if they sang some of their old songs-but the Beatles would mind...
...flack newly hired by his business-minded wife, Lady Chichester, admitted: "My job is to keep the name of Sir Francis Chichester alive and to place franchises for carefully selected goods. I have already closed two big deals, and am continually getting more offers." Projects pending include a book and film based on the Chichester exploit. Sir Francis stands to come out decidedly in the black from the perilous 28,500-mile voyage, whose second lap ended, after 119 days, in the red glow of sunset in Plymouth harbor to the cheers of 250,000 assembled Britons...
...Rosanna Schiaffino, 26, married a well-heeled Roman producer who can afford to have someone else wash his shirts. Besides, Rosanna has other advantages, such as resembling Gina Lollobrigida and going out to earn her own stocking money. Last week the hard-working girl flew into New York to flack prettily for her film Arrivederci, Baby!-a comedy in which she plays a rich girl whose husband is trying to kill...
...there a kooky costume or two dazed the 3,000 or so beholders who checked over the operagoers as they arrived. The wife of Met Tenor Jess Thomas, for example, was decked out in a black dress that was drenched in 15 Ibs. of floorlength gold chains (while a flack followed breathlessly, tossing out mimeographed press releases...
...splendor, what a future!" Since those anapaests were hatched, the lass from Tunis, Actress Claudia Cardinale, 28, has taken her splendors to Hollywood, where not long ago she finished a farce with Rock Hudson called Blindfold. Everyone's eyes were wide open in Manhattan, when Claudia arrived to flack for the picture and offer learned comments right from the bosom. "It's not the only thing any more," she demurely told Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson. "You used to look only at the bosom. Now you look at the legs, the body, the whole girl...