Word: lanza
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...would rather split smoke in a nightclub than shatter chandeliers in an opera house. The pay is high, and the hazards are few. All such a singer has to do is to practice smiling appreciatively when the ignorant masses press in to say: "You are the greatest since Mario Lanza...
...incumbent Lanza is Sergio Franchi. Late of Cremona, he is the new favorite son of Las Vegas. And he opened last week as headliner at Manhattan's Copacabana. At Vegas' Hotel Sahara, he was not the headliner but merely a vocal lead-in to Comedian Shelley Berman-to Berman's considerable embarrassment, since Franchi kept getting standing ovations and multiple encores...
...readers who like to hoard their Hollywood gleanings like green stamps, Hedda has a wildly scattershot collection: Clark Gable had not a tooth of his own in his head; Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Doris Day all shower at least three times a day; Mario Lanza roamed the streets of Beverly Hills at night in his Cadillac to batter down the mailbox of a movie mogul he thought had betrayed him; Harry Cohn broke up the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by having a thug threaten to work Sammy over. And if such racy bits never appeared...
...Natural, Peaceful, Wise." Although all but one of Lanza's current companions are Roman Catholics, the Ark has no official connection with that church, and membership is open to anyone who believes in God. The 20 permanent adult members of the community have taken vows, and live under an oath of poverty. Husbands and wives live together, are primarily responsible for the education of their children. In imitation of Gandhi, the members of the community begin their day with yoga-like exercises, practice an ardent pacifism. They have joined in sitdown strikes at the Marcoule atomic-energy plant, demonstrated...
...Lanza knows that the Companions of the Ark are turning their backs on the times, but he believes that it is the times, and not the companions, that are out of joint. "The crowding together of masses of people in uninhabitable big cities will, sooner or later, provoke a return to the country," he says. "The survivors of cataclysms soon to come, caused by the hand of man, will oblige humanity to regroup itself for a simple, natural, peaceful and wise life. So we shall have had a head start on humanity...